单选题
Government Policies and Economy

While he was off on his 1978 tour, Americans were becoming disgusted with their lot as all "emerging second-class nation", Wilson says. They began to see that incentives had to be restored to the economy. For instance, the capital gains tax was cut, an extraordinary turn-about. If it had been predicted before he went away in May, he would have said it was simply as inconceivable as the prospect of Resorts going up 1 percent.
This momentous transformation in the U.S. should soon bring about a huge bull market.
In the 1940s and 1950s, the last time price earning multiples were at these low levels, the investing public expected that there would be another great postwar depression. Instead, after the beginning of 1953 it became apparent that there would not be one, and price-earnings multiples got so low this time that investors felt that the country was drifting into socialism. That drift, however, may be reversing direction.
Wilson believes that the bankruptcy of New York City means the discrediting of big government, that as a result there will be less government, and that things in general will go much better. From 1980s depressed levels the market could rise to twenty times doubled earnings or almost fivefold in five to seven years. Wilson believes that he"ll be worth hundreds of millions of dollars before it"s over.
单选题 From paragraph 1, we can infer that Resorts is ______.
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】[解析] 在5月之前,人们认为Resorts公司增长1000%和税收改革同样是不可能的事。因此可推断,这家公司原来是没有希望迅速发展的。
单选题 Wilson uses the phrase "emerging second-class nation" to mean that ______.
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】[解析] 作者用“中产阶级国家”这个词说明美国对富人的税赋过重,富裕的人因为税赋而不太富裕,穷人也不能得到好处。
单选题 According to the author, the cut on capital gains tax ______.
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】[解析] 根据第一段第2~3行,作者认为,减少资产所得税能刺激经济的复苏。
单选题 From the passage, we can infer that ______.
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】[解析] 根据第三段,如果价格盈余率过低,投资人就会担心出现经济萧条。因此可推断,过低的价格盈余率会引起经济萧条。
单选题 This passage is mainly focused on ______.
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】[解析] 本文主要讨论政府的税收政策对经济发展的影响,所以选项A“政府政策与经济”符合题意。