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短文阅读 2007年6月23日大学英语六级真题 Passage One Questions 52 to 56 are based on the following passage. You hear the refrain all the time: the U.S. economy looks good statistically, but it doesnt feel good. Why doesnt ever-greater wealth promote ever-greater happiness? It is a question that dates at least to the appearance in 1958 of The Affluent （富裕的） Society by John Kenneth Galbraith, who died recently at 97. The Affluent Society is a modern classic because it helped define a new moment in the human condition. For most of history, hunger, sickness, and colcT threatened nearly everyone, Galbraith wrote. P