Reading Comprehension
试题详情
文章：
| Line | During the 1980s, many economic historians |
| studying Latin America focused on the impact of | |
| the Great Depression of the 1930s. Most of these | |
| historians argued that although the Depression | |
| (5) | began earlier in Latin America than in the United |
| States, it was less severe in Latin America and did | |
| not significantly impede industrial growth there. | |
| The historians’ argument was grounded in national | |
| government records concerning tax revenues and | |
| (10) | exports and in government-sponsored industrial |
| censuses, from which historians have drawn | |
| conclusions about total manufacturing output | |
| and profit levels across Latin America. However, | |
| economic statistics published by Latin American | |
| (15) | governments in the early twentieth century are |
| neither reliable nor consistent; this is especially | |
| true of manufacturing data, which were gathered | |
| from factory owners for taxation purposes and | |
| which therefore may well be distorted. Moreover, | |
| (20) | one cannot assume a direct correlation between |
| the output level and the profit level of a given | |
| industry as these variables often move in opposite | |
| directions. Finally, national and regional economies | |
| are composed of individual firms and industries, | |
| (25) | and relying on general, sweeping economic |
| indicators may mask substantial variations among | |
| these different enterprises. For example, recent | |
| analyses of previously unexamined data on textile | |
| manufacturing in Brazil and Mexico suggest that the | |
| (30) | Great Depression had a more severe impact on this |
| Latin American industry than scholars | |
| had recognized. |
题目：
The primary purpose of the passage is to
选项:
A、compare the impact of the Great Depression on Latin America with its impact on the United States
B、criticize a school of economic historians for failing to analyze the Great Depression in Latin America within a global context
C、illustrate the risks inherent in comparing different types of economic enterprises to explain economic phenomena
D、call into question certain scholars’ views concerning the severity of the Great Depression in Latin America
E、demonstrate that the Great Depression had a more severe impact on industry in Latin America than in certain other regions
答案:
D
