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The French are justly proud of their revolutionary tradition.【B16】_____________Say what you will about the outcomes, but the ori
The French are justly proud of their revolutionary tradition.【B16】_____________Say what you will about the outcomes, but the ori
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The French are justly proud of their revolutionary tradition.【B16】_____________Say what you will about the outcomes, but the origins were quite glorious: defiant, courageous, bloody, romantic uprisings against all that was fixed and immovable and oppressive: kings, czars, churches, oligarchies, tyrannies of every kind.
And now, in a new act of revolutionary creativity, the French are at it again. Millions of young people and trade unionists, joined by some underclass opportunists looking for a good night out, have taken to the streets again. To rise up against what?【B17】________________
That’s a very long way from liberty, equality, fraternity. The spirit of this revolution is embodied most perfectly in the slogan: "Against Precariousness (being unsettled or in doubt or dependent on chance, uncertainty)." The precariousness of being subject to being fired. The precariousness of the un-tenured life, even if the work is boring and the boss no longer wants you. And ultimately, the precariousness of life itself, any weakening of the government guarantee of safety, conformity, regularity. This is something very new. And it is not just a long way from the ideals of 1789. It is the very antithesis. It represents an escape from freedom, a demand for an arbitrary powerful state in whose bosom you can settle for life.
【B18】_____________________
The unemployment rate in France is 10%. For young people under 26 it is 23%, and almost 1 in 10 kids who leave high school don’t have a job five years after their graduation. Much of that unemployment are those of the alienated immigrant underclass, who are less educated, less acculturated and less likely ever to be hired than the mostly native student rioters. And these young rioters want to keep things just that way—to rely not just on their advantages of class, education and ethnicity but also on an absolute guarantee from the state that their very first job will be for life, with no one to challenge them for it.
Ironically, the better imitation of the spirit of 1789 came from precisely those immigrant challengers kept locked away in France’s satellite suburbs. It is those poor ambitious huddled masses who late last year lit up the country for three weeks with nights of burning cars.【B19】_________Those immigrant riots, which had an equal touch of the existential anarchy of the student revolution of 1968, were, if anything, a revolt for precariousness—for risk, danger, upheaval.
Against precariousness?【B20】___________Free markets correlate not just with prosperity and wealth but also with dynamism. The classic example is China today, an economic and social Wild West with entire classes, regions, families and individuals rising and falling. By contrast, in France not a single enterprise founded in the past 40 years has managed to break into the ranks of the nation’s 25 biggest companies.
Precariousness is an essential element in the life of the entrepreneur, a French word now more associated with the much despised Anglo-Saxon "liberalism" and capitalism. But these days the best examples of the entrepreneurial spirit are hardly Anglo-Saxon: India, Korea, Chile, all rising and growing, even as France and much of Europe decline.
[A] Nor are the current riots about equality. On the contrary. Their effect would be to enforce inequality.
[B] Those underclass riots were politically immature, but they did represent the fury of people desperate to escape the marginality imposed on them by their ethnicity and the rigidity of the French bureaucratic state.
[C] The energy and vitality of a society can almost be measured by its precariousness.
[D] In massive protest against a law that would allow employers to fire an employee less than 26 years old in the first two years of his contract.
[E] After all, 1789 resulted in 1848 and 1871, and indeed inspired just about every revolution for a century, up to and including the Russian Revolution of 1917.
[F] Yes, the old should be protected from precariousness because they are exhausted; the sick, because they are too weak.
[G] That is perhaps to be expected in a country where 76% of 15-to-30-year-olds say they aspire to civil service jobs from which it’s almost impossible to be fired.
【B19】
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答案
B
解析
本段段首指出处于弱势地位的移民的抗议才体现出法国革命传统精神。根据空格前的those im-migrant challengers、those poor ambitious huddled masses以及空格后的Those immigrant riots可推测,空格处应与这些人有关。纵观各项,B出现的Those underclass riots能与空格前后的内容对应,而转折词but后面的内容恰恰反映出低层暴乱积极的社会现实意义,与本段段首一样含褒义色彩。故本题选B。
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