2015年高二英语课时作业：Unit2SectionⅣ（Word版含答案）（新人教版选修八）.docVIP

Ⅰ.阅读理解 A Let me begin by saying what I think this crisis is not.It is not a financial crisis.It is a systemic crisis whose first serious symptom happened to be finance.But this crisis has its economic roots and its effects in manufacturing，services，and，to be sure，finance.It grows out of the relation of wages to profits across the economy.It has profound social roots in America’s households and families and political roots in government policies.The current crisis did not start with finance，and it won’t end with finance. From 1820 to around 1970，150 years，the average productivity of American workers went up each year.The average workers produced more stuff every year than they did the year before.They were trained better，they had more and better machines. And the wages of American workers rose every decade.The American working class enjoyed 150 years of rising consumption，so it’s not surprising that it would choose to define its own self-worth，measure its own success in life，according to the standard of consumption. But in the 1970s，the world changed for the American working class in ways that it hasn’t come to terms with—at all.Real wages stopped going up.As US corporations moved operations abroad to take advantage of lower wages and higher profits and as they replaced workers with machines (and especially computers)，those who lost their jobs were soon willing to work even if their wages stopped rising.So real wages trended down a little bit.The real hourly wage of a worker in the 1970s was higher than what it is today.What you get for an hour of work，in goods and services，is less now than what your parents got. Meanwhile，productivity kept going up.If what the employer gets from each worker keeps going up，but what you give to each worker does not，then the difference becomes bigger and bigger. 【语篇解读】　目前的经济危机并非起源于经济也不会从经济上结束但是它却影响着经济的发展。它有着极深的家庭与政府政策方面的社会根源。它起源于美国影响着世界。________．country’s economy B．the lower falling of people’s consumption C．the poor trend of governm