首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
考研
A history of long and effortless success can be a dreadful handicap, but, if properly handled, it may become a driving force. Wh
A history of long and effortless success can be a dreadful handicap, but, if properly handled, it may become a driving force. Wh
admin
2015-01-15
41
问题
A history of long and effortless success can be a dreadful handicap, but, if properly handled, it may become a driving force. When the United States entered just such a glowing period after the end of the Second World War, it had a market eight times larger than any competitor, giving its industries unparalleled economies of scale. Its scientists were the world’s best, its workers the most skilled. America and Americans were prosperous beyond the dreams of the Europeans and Asians whose economies the war had destroyed.
It was inevitable that this primacy should have narrowed as other countries grew richer. Just as inevitably, the retreat from predominance proved painful. By the mid-1980s Americans had found themselves at a loss over their fading industrial competitiveness. Some huge American industries, such as consumer electronics, had shrunk or vanished in the face of foreign competition. By 1987 there was only one American television maker left, Zenith.(Now there is none: Zenith was bought by South Korea’s LG Electronics in July.)Foreign-made cars and textiles were sweeping into the domestic market. America’s machine-tool industry was on the ropes. For a while it looked as though the making of semiconductors, which America had invented and which sat at the heart of the new computer age, was going to be the next casualty.
All of this caused a crisis of confidence. Americans stopped taking prosperity for granted. They began to believe that their way of doing business was failing, and that their incomes would therefore shortly begin to fall as well. The mid-1980s brought one inquiry after another into the causes of America’s industrial decline. Their sometimes sensational findings were filled with warnings about the growing competition from overseas.
How things have changed! In 1995 the United States can look back on five years of solid growth while Japan has been struggling. Few Americans attribute this solely to such obvious causes as a devalued dollar or the turning of the business cycle. Self-doubt has yielded to blind pride. "American industry has changed its structure, has gone on a diet, has learnt to be more quick-witted," according to Richard Cavanagh, executive dean of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, " It makes me proud to be an American just to see how our businesses are improving their productivity," says Stephen Moore of the Cato Institute, a think-tank in Washington, and William Sahlman of the Harvard Business School believes that people will look back on this period as "a golden age of business management in the United States".
It can be implied from the last paragraph that the author’s attitude is______.
选项
A、critical
B、proud
C、admiring
D、contented
答案
A
解析
本题是推理题。最后一段说,人们不再自我否定,而是盲目骄傲,并列举了几个例子说明美国人骄傲的心理状态,说明作者是反对这种骄傲心理的,因此选A项。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/kahi777K
0
在职申硕(同等学力)英语
相关试题推荐
某媒体的优点是大量使用、可选择适当的地区和对象、成本低;其缺点是仅有音响效果,不如电视吸引人。这类媒体是()。
()认为研究组织间的差异,探讨不同结构的组织取得成功的原因,力图解决组织设计与权变因素之间的配合问题。
AttheKyotoconferenceonglobalwarminginDecember1997,itbecameabundantlyclearhowcomplexithasbecometoworkoutint
Musiccomesinmanyforms;mostcountrieshaveastyleoftheirown.【C1】______theturnofthecenturywhenjazz(爵士乐)wasborn,Am
Advertisingisaformofselling.Forthousandsofyearstherehavebeenindividualswhohavetriedto【B1】______otherstobuy
Theworldisfullofnewhorrorsandthere’snoplacetohide.Whosaysso?Disasterpsychologists,forastart.Theyarethepe
HenryFord,thefamousU.S.inventorandcarmanufacturer,oncesaid,"ThebusinessofAmericaisbusiness."Bythishemeantth
Althoughinteriordesignhasexistedsincethebeginningofarchitecture,itsdevelopmentintoaspecializedfieldisreallyqui
Aninternationaltreatysignedseveralyearsagobanstradeinplantsandanimalofendangeredspecies.
Woman:Robert,how’syourtriptoSouthDakota?Man:Ibelievetheoldsayingthattraveleastandwest,aman’sownhouseisst
随机试题
关于急性中毒患儿洗胃的叙述,正确的是
按痰饮停积的部位分类,饮流胁下的是
说明书上的修改日期和核准日期应位于说明书首页的()。
对料石粉碎车间进行作业条件危险性分析时,需开展的工作包括()。
我国社会主义法的渊源主要的表现形式有()。
2018年,德国五金工会通过集体谈判,为旗下的汽车、家用电器等生产厂商的工人争取到了周工作28小时的待遇,该工会属于()。
根据商标法及相关规定,下列哪些说法是正确的?
下列依次与蒙古族、回族、藏族、维吾尔族、壮族有关的是()。
改革开放以来,中国农学会_________“献身、创新、求实、协作”的宗旨,始终不渝地坚持以推动农业科技进步、促进农村发展为己任,大力开展学术交流和科技普及,积极________和举荐人才,为提高广大农民科技素质、加快农业科技进步作出了重要贡献。依次填入画
PositionAvailableHigh-levelsecretaryneededforafirmlocatedincentralLosAngeles.Applicantsshouldhavegoodcommun
最新回复
(
0
)