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America was optimistic almost as a matter of official doctrine right from me outset. Anyone setting up a republic in the 1770s h
America was optimistic almost as a matter of official doctrine right from me outset. Anyone setting up a republic in the 1770s h
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America was optimistic almost as a matter of official doctrine right from me outset. Anyone setting up a republic in the 1770s had to be aware that nearly every republic in history had failed, usually under the iron heel of a tyrant or conqueror. No sooner had the American experiment got started than Napoleon repeated the pattern by ruining Europe’s frail republics. Yet this one, safeguarded by an ocean, prospered. British visitors in the 19th century, like Frances Trollope and Charles Dickens, found the Americans’ self-confidence, national pride and boastfulness almost insufferable, but they had to admit that the Americans got things done. Enterprising chaps like Andrew Carnegie emigrated from gaunt British poverty to accumulate Wagnerian fortunes on the other side of the Atlantic.
In the 20th century, too, a succession of visitors as different as Rudyard Kipling, Winston Churchill and Alistair Cooke loved recharging their spiritual batteries with long trips to America. Cooke even made a career out of praising America’s can do attitude, though with an undercurrent of irony at its excesses. What would he make of its current moods?
Today, recession-related jitters are widespread. Nearly everyone knows someone who has just lost their job and can’t help speculating whether they’re going to be next. American gloom comes in both highbrow and lowbrow forms. It has become characteristic of the wealthiest and most highly educated Americans to be pessimistic about their country. They fear the erosion of civil liberties, a loss of competitiveness and an inability to produce new generation of elite scientists.
Lowbrow gloom, sometimes developing into self-contempt, is easy to find just by turning on the TV. Millions watch The Biggest Loser a show in which hideously overweight citizens cast off their last race of dignity as they compete to shed rolls of fat. In Das Kapital Karl Marx made a bitingly ironic remark that the bourgeoisie was becoming so bloated that it would soon be paying to lose weight. The joke’s on him; as it turns out, it’s the pro-bourgeois American working class that is paying millions to slim down, and taking an abnormal interest in others on the same quest.
In Paragraph 1, the case of American in the 1770s is mentioned in order to stress the country’s______.
选项
A、historical progress
B、self-confidence
C、political system
D、independence
答案
B
解析
信息推断题。文章第一段提到美国建立共和国,其他欧洲国家都感觉到美国的自信和民族骄傲。故答案为B。
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