【正文】 and a more open market. They say if Federal money has to be injected into the economy, let it through defence spending.Both these alternatives ignore the unique nature of the economic problem before us. It is not simply a matter of markets or financing. The new technology allows vastly increased production for those able to master it. But it also threatens those who fail to adopt it with permanent secondclass citizenship in the world economy. If an industry cannot lever itself up to the leading stage of technological advances, then it will not be able to pete effectively. I fit cannot do this, no amount of government protectionism or access to foreign markets can keep it profitable for long. Without the profits and experience of technological excellence to reinvest, that industry can only fall still further behind its foreign petitors.So the crux is the technology and that is where the President39。 A．2000年底，我國民營企業(yè)的投資者人數(shù)約為：395．34萬人 B．廣東、浙江兩省的民營企業(yè)戶數(shù)已超過全國民營企業(yè)總數(shù)的五分之一 C．2001年底東部地區(qū)的民營企業(yè)戶數(shù)與2000年底相比略有下降 D．2000年，我國民營企業(yè)實(shí)現(xiàn)的銷售總額不足10000億元 六、英語能力考核資料1：While still in its early stages, welfare reform has already been judged a great success in many states — at least in getting people off welfare. It’s estimated that more than 2 million people have left the rolls since 1994. In the past four years, welfare rolls in Athens Country have been cut in half. But 70 percent of the people who left in the past two years took jobs that paid less than $6 an hour. The result: The Athens County poverty rate still remains at more than 30 percent — twice the national average. For advocates（代言人）for the poor, that’s an indication much more needs to be done. “More people are getting jobs, but it’s not making their lives any better,” says Kathy Lairn, a policy analyst at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities in Washington. A center analysis of US Census data nationwide found that between 1995 and 1996, a greater percentage of single, femaleheaded households were earning money on their own, but that average ine for these households actually went down. But for many, the fact that poor people are able to support themselves almost as well without government aid as they did with it is in itself a huge victory. “Welfare was a poison. It was a toxin（毒素）that was poisoning the family,” says Robert Rector, a welfarereform policy analyst. “The reform in changing the moral climate in lowine munities. It’s beginning to rebuild the work ethic（道德觀）, which is much more important.” Mr. Rector and others argued that once “the habit of dependency is cracked,” then the country can make other policy changes aimed at improving living standards.1. From the passage, it can be seen that the author _______. A. believes the reform has reduced the government’s burden B. insists that welfare reform is doing little good for the poor C. is overenthusiastic about the success of welfare reform D. considers welfare reform to be fundamentally successful2. Why aren’t people enjoying better lives when they have jobs? A. Because many families are divorced. B. Because government aid is now rare. C. Because their wages are low. D. Because the cost of living is rising.3. What is worth noting from the example of Athens County is that _______. A. greater efforts should be made to improve people’s living standards B. 70 percent of the people there have been employed for two years C. 50 percent of the population no longer relies on welfare D. the living standards of most people are going down4. From the passage we know that welfare reform aims at _______. A. saving welfare funds B. rebuilding the work ethic C. providing more jobs D. cutting government expenses5. According to the passage before the welfare reform was carried out, _______. A. the poverty rate was lover B. average living standards were higher C. the average worker was paid higher wages D. the poor used to rely on government aid資料2： Humanity uses a little less than half the water available worldwide. Yet occurrences of shortages and droughts（干旱）are causing famine and distress in some areas, and industrial and agricultural byproducts are polluting water supplies. Since the world’ population is expected to double in the next 50 years, many experts think we are on the edge of a widespread water crisis. But that doesn’t have to be the oute. Water shortages do not have to trouble the world — if we start valuing water more than we have in the past. Just as we began to appreciate petroleum more after the 1970s oil crises, today we must start looking at water from a fresh economic perspective. We can no longer afford to consider water a virtually free resource of which we can use as much as we like in any way we want. Instead, for all uses except the domestic demand of the poor, governments