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  3. The following paragraphs are given in a wrong order. For questions 1 — 5, you are required to reorganize these paragraphs into a

The following paragraphs are given in a wrong order. For questions 1 — 5, you are required to reorganize these paragraphs into a

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问题 The following paragraphs are given in a wrong order. For questions 1 — 5, you are required to reorganize these paragraphs into a coherent article by choosing from the list A—H and filling them into the numbered boxes. There is one extra paragraph which you do not need to use.
[A]Finally, they will suffer a drop in social capital. In times of recession, people spend more time at home. But this will be the first steep recession since the revolution in household formation. Nesting amongst an extended family rich in social capital is very different from nesting in a one-person household that is isolated from family and community bonds. People in the lower middle class have much higher divorce rates and many fewer community ties. For them, self-isolation is more likely to be a dangerous psychological spiral.
[B]The phenomenon is noticeable in developing nations. Over the past decade, millions of people in these societies have climbed out of poverty. But the global recession is pushing them back down. Many seem furious with democracy and capitalism, which they believe led to their shattered dreams. It’s possible that the Obama administration will spend much of its time battling a global protest movement that doesn’t even exist yet.
[C]In this recession, maybe even more than other ones, the last ones to join the middle class will be the first ones out. And it won’t only be material deprivations that bite. It will be the loss of a social identity, the loss of social networks, the loss of the little status symbols that suggest an elevated place in the social order. These reversals are bound to produce alienation and a political response. If you want to know where the next big social movements will come from, I’d say the formerly middle class.
[D]The members of the formerly middle class will suffer housing reversals. The current mortgage crisis is having its most concentrated effect on people on the lowest ladder of middle-class life-people who live in fast-growing suburbs in Florida and Nevada that are now flooded with housing reversals; people who just moved out of their urban neighborhoods and made it to modest, older suburbs in California and Michigan. Suddenly, the home of one’s own is gone, and it’s back to the apartment complex.
[E]The least well off are normally the hardest hit by recession, but the current downturn is very much a middle class phenomenon due to the financial and housing market crises. Having abused credit during the boom years as the value of their homes and stocks rose, many middle class households, particularly in the USA and the UK, are now facing up to a heavy debt burden.
[F]In this country, there are also millions of people facing the psychological and social pressures of downward mobility. In the months ahead, the members of the formerly middle class will suffer career reversals. Paco Underhill, the retailing expert, tells me that 20 percent of the mall storefronts could soon be empty. That fact alone means that thousands of service-economy workers will experience the self-doubt that goes with unemployment.
[G]At the beginning of every recession, there are people who see the downturn as an occasion for moral revival: Americans will learn to live without material extravagances. They’ll simplify their lives. They’ll rediscover what really matters; home, friends and family. But recessions are about more than material deprivatioa They’re also about fear and diminished expectations. The cultural consequences of recessions are rarely uplifting. The economic slowdown of the 1880s and 1890s produced a surge of agrarian populism and nativism. The recession of the 1970s produced a cynicism that has never really gone away.
[H]Recessions breed pessimism. That’s why birthrates tend to drop and suicide rates tend to rise. This recession will probably have its own social profile. In particular, it’s likely to produce a new social group: the formerly middle class. These are people who achieved middle—class status at the tail end of the long boom, and then lost it. To them, the gap between where they are and where they used to be will seem wide and discouraging.

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