问题 单项选择题

如果从伦理的角度着眼,两极分化是一种悲剧性的社会现实。面对落入破产者行列的许多小生产者和劳动者,我们不能不寄予深切的同情。但是从生产力的角度着眼,两极分化是商品经济的价值规律发生作用后的必然经济结果,它发挥着约束和激励的功能,使人力资源和物质资源都趋于更合理的配置。 对这段话理解正确的一项是( )。

A.从发展商品经济的角度看,两极分化具有一定的积极意义

B.我们应该对落入破产者行列的小生产者和劳动者寄予深切的同情

C.我们不应该对落入破产者行列的小生产者和劳动者寄予太多的同情

D.我们应该首先从经济的角度考虑问题,而不应该过多地从伦理的角度考虑问题

答案

参考答案:A

解析:原文从伦理和生产力两个方面说明两级分化的问题,转折处是全文重点所在,主要强调的是从生产力角度来看,两极分化的积极意义,即:有约束和激励的功能,并使资源配置更合理。对照选项发现,只有A项符合题意,故正确答案为A。

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单项选择题

Do we need laws that prevent us from running risks with our lives If so, then perhaps laws are needed prohibiting (禁止) the sale of cigarettes and alcoholic drinks. Both products have been known to kill people. The hazards of drinking too much alcohol are as bad or worse than the hazards of smoking too many cigarettes. All right then, let’s pass a law closing the liquor stores and the bars in this country. Let’s put an end once and for all to the disease from which as many as 10 million Americans currently suffer alcoholism (酗酒).
But wait. We’ve already tried that. For 13 years, between 1920 and 1933, there were no liquor stores anywhere in the United States. They were shut down—abolished by an amendment (修正案), the Volstead Act. After January 20, 1920, there was supposed to be no more manufacturing, selling, or transporting of "intoxication liquors." Without any more liquor, people could not drink it. And if they did not drink it, how could they get drunk There would be no more dangers to the public welfare from drunkenness and alcoholism (酒精中毒). It was all very logical. And yet prohibition of liquor, beer, and wine did not work. Why
Because, law or no law, millions of people still liked to drink alcohol. And they were willing to take risks to get it. They were not about to change their tastes and habits just because of a change in the law. And gangs of liquor smugglers (走私犯) made it easy to buy an illegal drink—or two or three. They smuggled millions of gallons of the illegal beverages (饮料) across the Canadian and Mexican Borders. Drinkers were lucky to know of an illegal bar that served Mexican or Canadian liquor. Crime and drunkenness were both supposed to decline as a result of prohibition. Instead people drank more alcohol than ever—often poisoned alcohol.
On December 5, 1933, they removed prohibition by approving the 21st Amendment to the Constitution.

During Prohibition, people ______.

A. lived in fear of the law
B. endangered their communities
C. were respectful of the legal sanctions placed of them
D. were willing to risk arrest for the pleasure of liquor