[大學(xué)英語考試復(fù)習(xí)資料]大學(xué)英語六級分類模擬題355

1、[大學(xué)英語考試復(fù)習(xí)資料]大學(xué)英語六級分類模擬題355大學(xué)英語六級分類模擬題 355Reading ComprehensionWhy India Is Poor and Corrupt While Japan Is Rich and CleanA. In the Far East, Malaysia, Singapore, Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Japan—all relying extensivel

2、y on private markets—are thriving. Their people are full of hope. By contrast, India, Indonesia, and Communist China, all relying heavily on central planning, have experienced economic stagnation and political repression

3、. B. An especially illuminating example, worth examining in greater detail, is the contrast between the experiences of India and Japan—India during the first 30 years after it achieved independence in 1947, and Japan dur

4、ing the first 30 years after the Meiji Restoration in 1867. Economists and social scientists in general can seldom conduct controlled substantial economic growth before World War I. That growth was converted into stagnat

5、ion between the two world wars, but was not reversed. Improvements in transportation had ended the famines that had earlier been a recurrent curse. Many of its leaders had been educated in advanced countries, particularl

6、y in Great Britain. British rule left it with a highly skilled and trained civil service, modern factories, and an excellent railroad system. None of these existed in Japan in 1867. India's physical resources, too, w

7、ere far superior to Japan's. India is nearly nine times as large as Japan, and a much larger percentage of its area consists of relatively level and accessible land. Japan is mostly mountainous. F. Finally, Japan was

8、 on its own. No foreign capital was invested in Japan. India fared far better. Since it achieved independence in 1947, it has received an enormous volume of resources from the rest of the world, mostly as gifts. The flow

9、 continues today. G. Despite the similar circumstances of Japan in 1867 and India in 1947, the outcome was vastly different. Japan dismantled its feudal structure and extended social and economic opportunity to all its c