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  3. The Pew Foundation discovered in a recent【C1】______that tensions over inequality in wealth now【C2】______tensions over race and i

The Pew Foundation discovered in a recent【C1】______that tensions over inequality in wealth now【C2】______tensions over race and i

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问题     The Pew Foundation discovered in a recent【C1】______that tensions over inequality in wealth now【C2】______tensions over race and immigration. But income inequality isn’t really the problem. A new upper class is the problem. And their wealth isn’t what sets them【C3】______or creates so much【C4】______toward them.
    Let’s take a guy—call him Hank—who built a successful auto-repair business and【C5】______it to 30 locations, and now his【C6】______in the business is worth $100 million. He went to a second-tier state university, or maybe he didn’t complete college at all. He grew up in a working-class or middle-class home and married a woman who didn’t complete college, either. He now lives in a neighborhood with other rich people, but they’re mostly other people who got rich the same way he did. He has a lot of money, but he doesn’t have power or influence over national culture, politics or economy,【C7】______does he even have any particular influence over the culture, politics or economy of the city where he lives. He’s just rich.
    The new upper class is different. It consists of the people who run the country. By "the people who run the country," I mean a small【C8】______of people—well under 100,000, by a【C9】______definition—who are【C10】______for the films and television shows you watch, the news you see and read, the success (or failure) of the nation’s leading corporations and financial institutions and the jurisprudence, legislation and regulations produced by government.
    What makes the new upper class new is that its members not only have power and influence but also increasingly【C11】______a common culture that【C12】______them from the rest of the country. Fifty years ago, the people who rose to the most influential positions overwhelmingly had Hank’s kind of【C13】______, thoroughly【C14】______in the American mainstream. They have【C15】______tastes and preferences and seek out enclaves of others who share them. Their culture【C16】______little with the lifestyle or the popular culture of the rest of the nation; in fact, members of the new upper class increasingly【C17】______that mainstream lifestyle and culture. If this divide continues to widen, it will completely destroy【C18】______has made America’s national civic culture【C19】______: a fluid,【C20】______society where people from different backgrounds live side by side and come together for the common good.
【C7】
选项 A、either
B、nor
C、neither
D、none
答案B
解析 横线处前面一句话是否定式he doesn’t have power or influence over national culture(他对于国家的文化没有任何影响力)，横线处的一句话紧接这句话的意思说“他甚至对自己所住的社区的政治、经济、文化状况都没有任何影响力”。neither作为否定副词，表示“两者都不”，可以用在这样的句式中，例如，Tom didn’t believe a word she said，and neither did the police．Tom一点都不相信她所说的话，警察也是一句不信。表示“A不……，B也不……”。nor作为否定副词，表示“也不，也没有”，也可以用在前面一个否定句后面，既可表示“A不……，B也不……”；也可以表示“A既不……，A也不……”。例如，He can’t see，nor could he hear until a month ago．他现在看不见，一个月之前他还听不见。而either作为否定副词，用在两个否定句后面，例如，I won’t go and Peter won’t go either．我不去，彼得也不去。而none表示“没有人”，是代名词。因此本题的正确答案应该选[B]。
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