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　　接下来的几天给大家整理了历届gre考试阅读真题及解析，下面这篇是1993年2月gre考试阅读真题SECTION A部分。复习gre考试阅读的时候，gre考生应该以往年的真题为复习材料，从真题中总结阅读规律和特点才是制胜法宝。

　　It is now established that the Milky Way is far more extended and of much greater mass than was hitherto thought. However, all that is visible of the constituents of the Milky Way’s corona (outer edge), where much of the galaxy’s mass must be located, is a tiny fraction of the corona’s mass. Thus, most of the Milky Way’s outlying matter must be dark.

　　Why? Three facts are salient. First, dwarf galaxies and globular clusters, into which most of the stars of the Milky Way’s corona are probably bound, consist mainly of old stars. Second, old stars are not highly luminous. Third, no one has detected in the corona the clouds of gaseous matter such as hydrogen and carbon monoxide that are characteristic of the bright parts of a galaxy. At present, therore, the best explanation—though still quite tentative—for the darkness of the corona is that the corona is composed mainly of old, burned-out stars.

　　17. The passage as a whole is primarily concerned with

　　(A) analyzing a current debate

　　(B) criticizing a well-established theory

　　(D) stating a conclusion and adducing evidence that may justify it

　　(E) contrasting two types of phenomena and showing how they are related

　　18. According to the passage, a bright part of a galaxy typically includes

　　(A) dwarf galaxies and clusters of stars

　　(B) a balanced mixture of old and new stars

　　(D) part of the corona of the galaxy

　　(E) gases such as hydrogen and carbon monoxide

　　19. It can be inferred from the passage that, compared with what they now think, until fairly recently astronomers believed that the Milky Way

　　(A) was much darker

　　(B) was much smaller

　　(D) had a much larger corona

　　(E) had much less gaseous matter

　　20. The passage presents which of the following as incontrovertible?

　　I. The low luminosity of old stars

　　II. The absence of clouds of gaseous matter from the corona of the Milky Way

　　III. The predominance of globular clusters and dwarf galaxies in the corona of the Milky Way

　　(A) I only

　　(B) III only

　　(D) II and III only

　　(E) I, II, and III

　　One of the principal themes of Walzer’s critique of liberal capitalism is that it is insufficiently egalitarian. Walzer’s case against the economic inequality generated by capitalism and in favor of “a radical redistribution of wealth” is presented in a widely cited essay entitled “In Dense of Equality.”

　　The most striking feature of Walzer’s critique is that, far from (far from: 非但不) rejecting the principle of reward according to merit, Walzer insists on its validity. People who excel should receive the superior benits appropriate to their excellence. But people exhibit a great variety of qualities—“intelligence, physical strength, agility and grace, artistic creativity, mechanical skill, leadership, endurance, memory, psychological insight, the capacity for hard work—even moral strength, sensitivity, the ability to express compassion.” Each deserves its proper recompense, and hence a proper distribution of material goods should rlect human differences as measured on all these different scales. Yet, under capitalism, the ability to make money (“the green thumb (an unusual ability to make plants grow) of bourgeois society”) enables its possessor to acquire almost “every other sort of social good,” such as the respect and esteem of others.

　　The centerpiece of Walzer’s argument is the invocation of a quotation from Pascal’s Pensees, which concludes: “Tyranny is the wish to obtain by one means what can only be had by another.” Pascal believes that we owe different duties (conduct due to parents and superiors: RESPECT) to different qualities. So we might say that infatuation is the proper response to charm, and awe the proper response to strength. In this light, Walzer characterizes capitalism as the tyranny of money (or of the ability to make it). And Walzer advocates as the means of eliminating this tyranny and of restoring genuine equality “the abolition of the power of money outside its sphere.” What Walzer envisions is a society in which wealth is no longer convertible into social goods with which it has no intrinsic connection.

　　Walzer’s argument is a puzzling one. After all, why should those qualities unrelated to the production of material goods be rewarded with material goods? Is it not tyrannical, in Pascal’s sense, to insist that those who excel in “sensitivity” or “the ability to express compassion” merit equal wealth with those who excel in qualities (such as “the capacity for hard work”) essential in producing wealth? Yet Walzer’s argument, however dicient, does point to one of the most serious weaknesses of capitalism—namely, that it brings to predominant positions in a society people who, no matter how legitimately they have earned their material rewards, often lack those other qualities that evoke affection or admiration. Some even argue plausibly that this weakness may be irremediable: in any society that, like a capitalist society, seeks to become ever wealthier in material terms disproportionate rewards are bound to flow to the people who are instrumental in producing the increase in its wealth.

　　21. The primary purpose of the passage is to

　　(A) argue that Walzer’s critique of liberal capitalism is the cornerstone of Walzer’s thinking

　　(B) identify and to deprecate the origins of the intellectual tradition championed by Walzer

　　(C) present more clearly than does the essay “In Dense of Equality” the distinctive features of Walzer’s politico-economic theories

　　(D) demonstrate that Walzer’s critique of liberal capitalism is neither original nor persuasive

　　(E) outline and to examine critically Walzer’s position on economic equality

　　22. The author mentions all of the following as issues addressed by Walzer EXCEPT:

　　(A) proper recompense for individual excellence

　　(B) proper interpretation of “economic equality”

　　(D) grounds for calling capitalism “the tyranny of money”

　　(E) exchangeability of money for social goods

　　23. The argumentation in the passage turns importantly on the question of what should be the proper relation between

　　(A) “liberal capitalism” (line 2) and “bourgeois society” (lines 20-21)

　　(B) “reward” (line 8) and “recompense” (line 17)

　　(D) “distribution of material goods” (lines 17-18) and “redistribution of wealth” (lines 4-5)

　　(E) “social goods” (line 37) and “material goods” (line 41)

　　24. The passage provides sufficient information to answer which of the following questions?

　　(A) What weight in relation to other qualities should a quality like sensitivity have, according to Walzer, in determining the proper distribution of goods?

　　(B) Which quality does Walzer deem too highly valued under liberal capitalism?

　　(D) What practical steps does Walzer suggest be taken to relieve the economic inequality generated by capitalism?

　　(E) What diciencies in Walzer’s own argument does Walzer acknowledge?

　　25. The author implies that Walzer’s interpretation of the principle of reward according to merit is distinctive for its(WALZER与前人一样，都认同the principle of reward according to merit，也就是what constitutes a reward的标准都是一样的，但不同之处是what constitutes merit，前人认为只是挣钱的能力，而他认为还包括其他的能力。)

　　(A) insistence on maximizing everyone’s rewards

　　(B) emphasis on equality

　　(D) broad conception of what constitutes merit

　　(E) broad conception of what constitutes a reward

　　26. The author’s interpretation of the principle that “we owe different duties to different qualities” (lines 28-29) suggests that which of the following would most probably be the duty paired with the quality of veracity?

　　(A) Dignity

　　(B) Trust

　　(D) Obedience

　　(E) Integrity

　　27. The author implies that sensitivity is not a quality that

　　(A) is essential in producing wealth

　　(B) wealthy people lack

　　(D) characterizes tyrannical people

　　(E) is owed a duty in Pascal’s sense

答案：17-27：DEBAECEBDBA

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