09年春季高级口译阅读训练《奥巴马时代》.docVIP

09年春季高级口译阅读训练(1)《奥巴马时代》 （注：本阅读材料根据高级口译笔试试卷出题大纲选择，适合09年3月参加笔试的考生备考阅读。请精读此类文章，并总结主题相关词汇。详细阅读材料取材规则请见《09春季高口考生必备的外刊阅读资料》。　　The Age of Obama 　　The Decade of Greed, etc., R.I.P.　　By HOLMAN W. JENKINS, JR.　　OCTOBER 29, 2008　　Nineteen eighty-two was a lucky time (as your columnist can attest) to be leaving college. Whatever faults various authorities find in the decade of greed, which was followed by another decade of greed, it marked the start of 25 years of exceptional prosperity and opportunity. Freer trade and the epochal joining of a couple billion Chinese and others into the global divisio