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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 ties larger than any competitor, giving its instries 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 instrial competitiveness. Some huge American instries, 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 instry was on the ropes. For a while it looked as though the making of semiconctors, which America had 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 instrial 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 instry 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 proctivity, says Stephen Moore of the Cato Institute, a think-tank in Washington, DC. 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." 53.What can be inferred from the passage? 〔A〕It is human nature to shift between self-doubt and blind pried. 〔B〕Intense competition may contribute to economic progress. 〔C〕The revival of the economy depends on international cooperation. 〔D〕A long history of success may pave the way for further development. 从这篇文章我们可以推断出什么? (B)激烈的竞争可以有助于经济发展。 [D]历史的成功会为将来的发展铺平道路。文章的首句说的是A history of long and effortless success can be a dreadful handicap历史的没有付出努力的成功可能成为一个可怕的障碍D显然不符题意 而且问题是 从这篇文章我们可以推断出什么? 注意是推断~如果原文能找到,那么肯定不是正确答案。通篇文章,大意讲的是美国在二战后拥有很多优势,却工业竞争力下降(没有竞争),经过反思后而崛起(有了竞争),因此我们可以推断,这是竞争产生的结果。 补充:but, if properly handled, it may become a driving force意思是 如果处理得当,就可能成为一种动力~如果加上这句,确实是令人难以选择,但是,备选答案里的D选项只给了句子的前半部分,有断章取义之嫌。另外,即便加上后半句,B选项仍然要好于D选项,因为这是推断出的结果,而不是原文给出。