2011 考研英语阅读真题Text 3(英语二) .pdfVIP

2011 Text 3 （英语⼆）少即是多 We tend to think of the decades immediately following World War II as a time of prosperity and growth, with soldiers returning home by the millions, going off to college on the G. I. Bill, and lining up at the marriage bureaus. 我们⼀般认为⼆战之后的⼏⼗年是繁荣和成⻓的时期，数以百万计的⼠兵返回家园，按照军⼈安置法案 去上了⼤学，并登记结婚。 But when it came to their houses, it was a time of common sense and a belief that less could truly be more. 但，谈到房⼦的问题，当时⼈们的常识和想法是利⽤有限空间创造出更⼤空间。 During the Depression and the war, Americans had learned to live with less, and that restraint, in combination with the postwar