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The United States in the 1990s has had seven years of economic boom with low unemployment, low inflation, and low government deficit. Amid all of this good news, inequality has increased and wages have barely risen. Common sense knowledge seems to be right in this instance, that is, the rich get richer, the poor get poorer, and the middle class is shrinking. Though President Clinton boasts that the number of people on welfare has decreased significantly under his regime to 8 million, a 44% decline from 1994, he forgets that there are still 36.5 million poor people in the United States, which is only a 2% decline in the same amount of time. How is it possible that we have increasing inequality during economic prosperity
This contradiction is not easily explained by the dominant neoclassical economic discourse of our time. Nor is it resolved by neoconservative social policy. More helpful is the one book under review: James K. Galbraith’s Created Unequal, a Keynesian a
A. being too optimistic about the economic prosperity
B. lying about the economic situation to the public
C. increasing the number of people on welfare
D. being reluctant to raise the salary of the average people

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The United States in the 1990s has had seven years of economic boom with low unemployment, low inflation, and low government deficit. Amid all of this good news, inequality has increased and wages have barely risen. Common sense knowledge seems to be right in this instance, that is, the rich get richer, the poor get poorer, and the middle class is shrinking. Though President Clinton boasts that the number of people on welfare has decreased significantly under his regime to 8 million, a 44% decline from 1994, he forgets that there are still 36.5 million poor people in the United States, which is only a 2% decline in the same amount of time. How is it possible that we have increasing inequality during economic prosperity
This contradiction is not easily explained by the dominant neoclassical economic discourse of our time. Nor is it resolved by neoconservative social policy. More helpful is the one book under review: James K. Galbraith’s Created Unequal, a Keynesian a
A. is devoted to analyzing why economic boom usually goes with wage inequality
B. reviews the dominant neoclassical economic discourse of our time
C. recommend resolving the present problem by neoconservative social policy
D. attributes the present increasing wage inequality to several factors

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Passage Three
The United States in the 1990s has had seven years of economic boom with low unemployment, low inflation, and low government deficit. Amid all of this good news, inequality has increased and wages have barely risen. Common sense knowledge seems to be right in this instance, that is, the rich get richer, the poor get poorer, and the middle class is shrinking. Though President Clinton boasts that the number of people on welfare has decreased significantly under his regime to 8 million, a 44% decline from 1994, he forgets that there are still 36.5 million poor people in the United States, which is only a 2% decline in the same amount of time. How is it possible that we have increasing inequality during economic prosperity
This contradiction is not easily explained by the dominant neoclassical economic discourse of our time. Nor is it resolved by neoconservative social policy. More helpful is the one book under review: James K. Galbraith’s C
A. being too optimistic about the economic prosperity
B. lying about the economic situation to the public
C. increasing the number of people on welfare
D. being reluctant to raise the salary of the average people

[单项选择]The United States has historically had higher rates of marriage than those of other industrialized countries. The current annual marriage (21) in the United States—about 9 new marriages for every 1,000 people—is (22) higher than it is in other industrialized countries. However, marriage is (23) as widespread as it was several decades ago. (24) of American adults who are married (25) from 72 percent in 1970 to 60 percent in 2002. This does not mean that large numbers of people will remain unmarried (26) their lives. Throughout the 20th century, about 90 percent of Americans married at some (27) in their lives. Experts (28) that about the same proportion of today’s young adults will eventually marry.
The timing of marriage has varied (29) over the past century. In 1995 the average age of women in the United States at the (30) of their first marriage was 25. The average ag
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