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The loudest outcry(呐喊)about poverty seemed to come in the wealthiest country— by far—in the world. According to most calculation
The loudest outcry(呐喊)about poverty seemed to come in the wealthiest country— by far—in the world. According to most calculation
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2013-03-27
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The loudest outcry(呐喊)about poverty seemed to come in the wealthiest country— by far—in the world. According to most calculations, through most of the 1945—1970 period the United States had a standard of living well above Europe’s and many times above the world average. Yet protests about grinding poverty, hunger, and dreadful need proceed more from the United States than from countries with one-fortieth of their living standard.(An annual per capita income of eight dollars is typical of much of Africa and Asia and not a little of South America.)It would seem strange to these people(were they only aware of the fact)that American radicals demand a retreat from an American commitment to the far corners of the globe so that the money thus saved can be spent raising the standard of living of underprivileged Americans.
What this last point suggests is not so much that human wants are never to be satisfied though this is doubtlessly true, and the American living in suburb deprived of his second car and his color TV suffers just as acutely as an African farmer in need of a second cow and a screen door. Rather, it suggests the extent of contemporary breach(违反)of social norm(标准)—the emancipation(解放)of the individual self. People have learned that their wants are sacred and rights ought to be satisfied. They have learned to consider any obstacle to personal fulfillment and intolerable insult. They have greatly expanded the circle of self-awareness. They no longer accept sharp limitations on individual desires in the name of the group. The amount of potential human discontent has always been infinite—misery, failure, misfitting, bitterness, hatred, envy beyond telling. It has usually failed of utterance, and in the past it was accepted passively as being beyond help.
According to the passage, most complaints over a poor living standard were made by those who came from______.
选项
A、the United States
B、Asian countries
C、the European Community
D、Commonwealth of Nations
答案
A
解析
本题考查细节。根据文中第一段前三句话可知,对贫穷的呐喊来自世界上最富有的国家,1945—1970年期间,美国的生活水平在欧洲和世界平均水平之上,但是对赤贫、饥饿的抗议却最多。所以A项符合题意。
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