单选题
The president appeals to labor and management to hold down wages and prices, but says not a word about any controls to be imposed by the Government.
The business and financial community has been given
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that interest rates will soon be lowered, and that this particularly will
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money available for more activity in new housing. Nobody in the Administration, however, is
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specifically just when the high interest rates will
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down.
Paul W. McCracken, Chairman of the President"s Council of Economic Advisers, in a press conference on March 17, said that he does not
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the country is running into a
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.
Arthur Bums, Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, has been
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that the
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money policy will have to he relaxed in order to prepare the
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for a decline in interest rates.
It is apparent,
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, that uncertainty
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even in Government circles, and that experimentalism
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a reliance on past experience in
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with wages and prices has been reason why the nation has been drifting into a depression.
Evidently there will be no effort to impose wage and price controls
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the political consequences are feared. So the
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are that the Administration will try a new
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to manage what it considers a slowdown by
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just a little more inflation. This is a risky way to handle an economy which has a
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national product of more than $950 billion.
Anyway, officials hope that their corrective measures will stop the slowdown in business and that the economy soon will
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itself. So, in effect, the soft-spoken
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of Government today is: "Recession, please go away!"
【答案解析】[解析] 下文中“the political consequences are feared(人们担心所造成的政治后果)”,所以整个政界充满了骚动和不安,根据上下文的呼应,应该填人“prevail(流行,弥漫)”构成一致性。而B选项“攀登;爬行”,C选项“培养;培育”,D选项“强行闯入”均不符合题意。