用新概念破解英语四级阅读理解（二）

　　用新概念破解2011年英语四级阅读理解

　　下面以四级阅读真题为例，运用镜像蒙太奇法快速选出正确答案。

　　通过观察几个关键词well-fedalmost fully employed people，我们得出结论： 这篇文章的主题是1952年之后美国经济的繁荣。

　　那么第二段应该从细节初描述经济繁荣的表现，在这里有一个词要特别注意economic survey就相当于第一课中的investigation。 那么现在需要做的仅仅就是以句号为单位勾划每句话的主语了。

　　The economy of the United states after 1952 was the economy of a well-fed， almost fully employed people. Despite occasional alarms， the country escaped any postwar depression and lived in a state of boom.

　　An economic survey of the year 1955， a typical year of the 1950s， may be typical as illustrating the rapid economic growth of the decade. The national output was value at 10 percent above that of 1954 （1955 output was estimated at 392 billion dollars）。 The production of manufacturers was about 40 percent more than it had averaged in the years immediately following World War 2. The countrys business spent about 30billion dollars for new factories and machinery. National income available for spending was almost a third greater than it had been in 1950. Consumers spent about 256 billion dollars; that is about 700 million dollars a day ，or about twenty-five million dollars every hour ， all round the clock. Sixty-five million people held jobs and only a little more than two million wanted jobs but could not find them. Only agriculture complained that it was not sharing in the room. To some observers this was an ominous echo of the mid-1920s 。 As farmers share of their products declined ， marketing costs rose. But there were ， among the observers of the national economy， a few who were not as confident as the majority 。 Those few seemed to fear that the boom could not last and would eventually lead to the opposite-depression.

　　1. What is the best title of the passage？

　　a. The Agricultural Trends of 1950s

　　b. The Unemployment Rate of 1950s

　　c. U.S. Economy in the 50s

　　d. The Federal Budget of 1952

　　2. In Line 4 ， the word boom could best be replaced by______.

　　a. nearby explosion

　　b. thunderous noise

　　c. general public support

　　d. rapid economic growth