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考研英语（完形填空）模拟试卷148 (总分：120.00，做题时间：90 分钟) 一、Use of English(总题数：3，分数：120.00) 1.Section I Use of EnglishDirections: Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D. （分数：40.00） __________________________________________________________________________________________ I wont be modest. I am gratified to discover that a paper I penned on inequality made its way into Matt Millers Washington Post column last week. Mr Miller asks why rising inequality has not【C1】______Americas least-favored classes to agitate for a【C2】______He agrees with my verdict: that access to 【C3】______goods among the least well-off has ensured that material inequality is not as 【C4】______as income inequality. 【C5】______modem conveniences have taken some of the 【C6】______out of a relatively small income. This in turn has 【C7】______the drive to seek causes of and cures for 【C8】______s discomfort. So the gap between rich and poor is sometimes less 【C9】______, even if it is great and growing. Day-to-day experience is mostly a matter of our 【C10】______circumstances, and if those are 【C11】______enough, a widening gap in income, consumption or wealth is 【C12】______to come often to our attention. Even if the abstract fact of rising inequality does come across our radar, it may 【C13】______our sense of justice only ifweve become convinced that inequality itself is【C14】______, or ifwe face related catastrophes. When I wrote the paper, official measures of income inequality had increased a good deal over the past few decades 【C15】______consumption inequality seemed to have remained 【C16】______New research suggests that consumption inequality has been increasing with income inequality【C17】 ______This may be true, but it seems 【C18】______to the question of why Americas poor arent storming the barriers. The consumption data concerns how much we 【C19】______, not how we experience what we buy,