President Coolidge’s statement, “The business of America is business,” still points to a very important truth today — that business organizations have more prestige (威望) in American society than any other kind of organization, including the government. Why do business institutions still possess this great prestige?
One reason is that Americans view business as being more firmly based on the idea of competition than other organizations in society. Since competition is seen as the main source of progress and development by most Americans, competitive business organizations are respected. Competition is not only good in itself; it is the means by which other basic American values, such as individual freedom, equality of opportunity, and hard work are protected.
Competition protects the individual freedom by making sure that there is no monopoly (壟斷) of power. Compared with one and all-powerful government, many businesses compete against each other for benefit. If one business tries to take unfair advantage of its customers, it will lose to the competing business which treats its customers more fairly. Since there are many businesses competing for the customers’ dollars, they cannot afford to treat them unfairly and the customers would lose nothing.A contrast is often made between business, which is competitive, and government, which is a monopoly. Because business is competitive, many Americans believe that it gives more support for freedom than government, even though government leaders are elected by the people while business leaders are not. Many Americans believe that competition is as important, or even more important, as democracy in protecting freedom.
Competition in business is also believed to strengthen the idea of equal opportunities. Competition is seen as an open and fair race where success goes to any person regardless of his or her social class background. Competitive success is commonly seen as the American choice of the higher social position which is not based on one’s family background. Business is therefore viewed as an expression of the idea of equal opportunities.
小題1:Which of the following is discussed as the main topic in the passage?
A．Competition in America’s business.B．Freedom in America’s business.
C．Americans’ different values.D．Business against government.
小題2:Americans believe that they can realize their personal values ______.
A．when given equal opportunities
B．through doing business
C．by protecting their individual freedom
D．by means of competition
小題3:Who can benefit from business competition?
A．Businessmen who compete.
B．Customers of those businesses.
C．People with the idea of equality and freedom.
D．Both business organizations and government.
小題4:It could be inferred from the passage that the author believes ______.
A．business in other countries are not as competitive as those in the USA
B．business problems are very important to the American government
C．the competition in business plays a very important role in America
D．American business is the most powerful one in the whole world

小題1:A
小題2:D
小題3:B
小題4:C

試題分析：這篇文章主要講了競爭在美國商業(yè)貿(mào)易中扮演著非常重要的角色。
小題1:根據(jù)One reason is that Americans view business as being more firmly based on the idea of competition than other organizations in society.故選A。
小題2:根據(jù)Competition is not only good in itself; it is the means by which other basic American values, such as individual freedom, equality of opportunity, and hard work are protected.故選D。
小題3:根據(jù)If one business tries to take unfair advantage of its customers, it will lose to the competing business which treats its customers more fairly.所以答案為B。
小題4:根據(jù)Competition in business is also believed to strengthen the idea of equal opportunities. Competition is seen as an open and fair race where success goes to any person regardless of his or her social class background.因此選C。
點評：要想答好題目，重在理解全文意思。這篇文章比較難，先看問題，再帶著問題讀短文，找出各段落的主旨句，理解全文內(nèi)容，總結(jié)全文中心，然后再回到問題上來，很容易選出正確答案。
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