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The free market economy is no doubt the primary stimulus that has led to the United States’ dominance in the world economic comm

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问题     The free market economy is no doubt the primary stimulus that has led to the United States’ dominance in the world economic community. By naturally rewarding those producers that excel, excellence is actively encouraged and those that inefficiently produce goods or services not valued are eliminated. Thus, the economy becomes a self-sustaining and self-maintaining machine, consistently and constantly achieving the best possible result.
    The free market economy is entirely based on the principle of supply and demand. Under this concept, consumers decide for themselves which companies will stay in business, voting with their dollars by spending on those businesses they consider most worthy. By doing so, those companies that are best liked, or most in demand, are granted the privilege of supplying the goods and services that consumers pay for. In that sense, efficiency is achieved. Those companies that best perform to the expectations of consumers are left prosperous in the market, while their less efficient counterparts simply die out of the market, starved of the dollars of consumers who simply prefer not to buy their products.
    With such a system in place, American businesses are literally forced to be efficient to the highest degree. As a rule, what’s efficient in one place will be efficient in most other places, thus American businesses are fierce competitors no matter where they choose to sell their product, having been formed in a competitive environment that breeds optimality.
    When the opposition is made up of businesses overly protected or directed by their respective governments, the tough American businesses usually make short work of them. It has been proven that the free market system more efficiently allocates capital and resources than any central planner could, and America has seized on that concept. With such an edge at a basic level, it’s no wonder that the United States is on top of the financial world. The cycle is a self-perpetuating one. As more money is pumped into the system by efficient businesses, more leverage is attained, allowing America to dictate the rules of the game, to its own advantage, of course.
    Other countries are beginning to adopt the competitive nature of the American economic system, producing companies that are giving their American counterparts a good run for their money. It can be arguably stated that within a few decades, the United States will have to deal with competition just as well equipped as its own. For the time being, however, the game is stacked in favor of America.
It is argued that the relative efficiency of American businesses______.
选项 A、will decrease in time as other nations imitate the methods of the American economy
B、results in American dominance in all financial markets
C、may not last indefinitely, as competition is no longer a trait characteristic only of the American economy
D、is a result solely of the competitive environment in which those businesses are developed
答案C
解析 属信息推断题。文章最后一段第一句指出：其他国家开始借鉴美国经济体制具备的竞争性特点，建立公司与美国同行展开激烈的竞争。由此可推知，选项C正确。选项A与文章最后两句内容不符，原文说未来的几十年中，美国将遇到势均力敌的竞争对手……但现在美国是有优势的。选项B与第四段第三句内容不符，all过于绝对。选项D(solely)概括得太绝对，与原文第一句内容不符，原文说自由市场经济无疑是使美国处于世界经济优势地位的主要促进因素，但没有说它是唯一的原因。
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