摘要: 1952

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American economy after 1952 was the economy of a well-fed, almost fully employed people.Despite occasional alarms, the country escaped any postwar depression and lived in a state of boom An economic survey of the year 1955, a typical year of the 1950s, may be typical as illustrating the rapid economic growth of the decade.The national output was valued at 10 percent above that of 1954 (1955 output was estimated at 392 billion dollars).The production of manufacturers was about 40 percent more than it had averaged in the years immediately following World War Two. The country's business spent about 30 billion dollars for new factories and machinery.National income available for spending was almost a third greater than it had been in 1950.Consumers spent about 256 billion dollars; that is about 700 million dollars a day, or about twenty-five million dollars every hour, all round the clock.Sixty-five million people held jobs and only a little more than two million wanted jobs but could not find them.Only agriculture complained that it was not sharing in the room.To some observers this was a threatening echo of the mid-1920's.As farmers' share of their products declined, marketing costs rose.But there were, among the observers of the national economy, a few who were not as confident as the majority.Those few seemed to fear that the boom could not last and would eventually lead to the opposite-depression.

1.What is the best title of the passage?

       A.The Agricultural Trends of the 1950s

       B.The Unemployment Rate of the 1950s

       C.American Economy in the 1950s

       D.The Federal Budget of 1952

2.It can be inferred from the passage that most people in the United States in 1955 viewed the national economy with an air of____.

       A.confidence          B.confusion           C.disappointment     D.suspicion

3.According to the passage we can get to know the national output of 1954 was about ____.

       A.353 billion           B.356 billion            C.280 billion           D.431 billion

4.Which of the following was LEAST satisfied with the national economy in the 1950?

       A.Economists         B.Observers           C.Politicians           D.Farmers

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     In 1952, on the island of Koshima(越谷,日本某地), scientists were providing monkeys with sweet
potatoes dropped in the sand. The monkey liked the taste of the raw sweet potatoes, but they found the
dirt unpleasant. An 18-month-old female named Imo found she could solve the problem by washing the
potatoes in a nearby stream. She taught this trick to her mother. Her playmates also learned this new way
and they taught their mothers too. This cultural innovation was gradually picked up by various monkeys
before the eyes of the scientists.
     Between 1952 and 1958 all the young monkeys learned to wash the sandy sweet potatoes to make
them more palatable(美味的). Only the adults who imitated their children learned this social improvement.
Other adults kept eating the dirty sweet potatoes.
     Let us suppose that when the sun rose one morning there were 99 monkeys on Koshima Island who
had learned to wash their sweet potatoes. Let's further suppose that later that morning, the hundredth
monkey learned to wash potatoes. Then it happened. By that evening almost everyone in the tribe was
washing sweet potatoes before eating them. The added energy of this hundredth monkey somehow
created an ideological breakthrough!
     But notice: A most surprising thing observed by these scientists was that the habit of washing sweet
potatoes then jumped over the sea colonies of monkeys on other islands and the mainland troop of
monkeys at Takasakiyama(高岐山)began washing their sweet potatoes. Thus, when a certain critical(关键的)number achieves an awareness, this new awareness may be communicated from mind to mind.
Although the exact number may vary, this Hundredth Monkey Phenomenon(现象)means that when only a limited number of people know of a new way, it may remain the conscious property(个人意识性属性)of those people.
     But there is a point at which if only one more person comes to a new awareness, a field(能量场)is
strengthened so that this awareness is picked up by almost everyone!
     Your awareness is needed. You may be the "hundredth monkey"
1. The passage may be adapted from __________.

A. a text book
B. a newspaper
C. an advertisement
D. a scientific report

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