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Directions: Readthe following six passages. Answer the questions below each passage by choosing[A], [B], [C], or [D]. Write your answers on the Answer Sheet. .z"[z^/uF
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In general, our society is becoming one of giant enterprisesdirected by a bureaucratic management in which man becomes a small,well-oiledcog in the machinery. Theoiling is done with higher wages, Nell-ventilated factories and piped music,and by psychologists and “human-relations” experts; yet all this oiling doesnot alter the fact that man has become powerless, that he is bored with it. Infact, the blue and the white-collar workers have become economic puppets whodance to the tune of automated machines and bureaucratic management.
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The worker and employee are anxious, not only because they mightfind themselves out of a job; they are anxious also because they are unable toacquire any real satisfaction of interesting life. They live and die withoutever having confronted the fundamental realities of human existence asemotionally and intellectually independent and productive human beings. w#XJ!f6*_9
Those higher up on the social ladder are no less anxious. Theirlives are no less empty than those of their subordinates. They are even moreinsecure in some respects. They are in a highly competitive race. To bepromoted or to fall behind is not a matter of salary but even more a matter ofself-respect. When they apply for their first job, they are tested forintelligence as well as for the right mixture of submissiveness andindependence. From the moment on they are tested again and again-by thepsychologists, for whom testing is a big business, and by their superiors, whojudge their behavior, sociability, capacity to get along, etc. This constantneed to prove that one is as good as or better than one’s fellow-competitorcreates constant anxiety and stress, the very causes of unhappiness andillness.
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Am I suggesting that we should return to the preindustrial mode ofproduction or to nineteenth-century “free enterprise” capitalism? Certainlynot. Problems the never solved by returning to a stage which one has alreadyoutgrown. I suggest transforming our social system form, a bureaucraticallymanaged industrialism in which maxima, production and consumption are ends inthemselves, into a humanist industrialism in which man and full development ofhis potentialities-those of all love and of reason-are the aims of socialarrangements. Production and consumption should serve only as means to this endand should be prevented from ruling man. |*b8-a8<
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1.By “a well-oiled cog in the machinery” the author intends to deliver the ideathat man is ____. B06 /mKZ7
[A] a necessary part of the society though each individual’s function isnegligible 19S,>
[B] working in complete harmony with the rest of the society Z& %61jGK
[C] an unimportant part in comparison with the rest of the society +vP1DXtj (
[D] a humble component of the society, especially when working smoothly ?2M15Q
2.The real cause of the anxiety of the workers and employees is that ____. Z+?j8(:n
[A] they are likely to lose their jobs L`\ILJz
[B] they have no genuine satisfaction or interest in life
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[C] they are faced with the fundamental realities of human existence Q7C'O @
[D] they are deprived of their individuality and independence KH;e)91
3.From the passage we can conclude that real happiness of life belongs to those____. [;(| ^ 0
[A] who are at the bottom of the society w*+rB p,f
[B] who are higher up in their social status ;23F8M%wH
[C] who prove better than their fellow-competitors pO^
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[D] who could dip fir away from this competitive world &"BKue~q@p
4.To solve the present social problems the author puts forward a suggestion thatwe should ____. Q~9:}_@
[A] resort to the production mode of our ancestors mp#5V c
[B] offer higher wages to the workers and employees D5 26X0
[C] enable man to fully develop his potentialities Bpgl
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[D] take the fundamental realities for granted T:si?7CR
5.The author’s attitude towards industrialism might best be summarized as one of____. .Ee8s]h5W
[A]approval [B] dissatisfaction k: {$M yK
[C]suspicion [D] susceptibility I=1tf;Bsi
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