Economists have been particularly surprised by favorable inflation figures in Britain and the United States, since conventional measures suggest that both economies, and especially America’s, have little productive slack. America’s capacity utilization, for example, his historically high levels earlier this year, and its jobless rate (5.6% in August) has fallen bellow most estimates of the natural rate of unemployment — the rate below which inflation has taken off in the past.

　　Why has inflation proved so mild? The most thrilling explanation is, unfortunately, a little defective. Some economists argue that powerful structural changes in the world have up ended the old economic models that were based upon the historical link between growth and inflation.

　　70. The passage shows that the author is _____ the present situation.

　　[A]critical of

　　[B]puzzled by

　　[C]disappointed at

　　[D]amazed at

　　[答案] D

　　[解题思路]

　　从总体上看来，本文主要讨论的是经济现象中新的现象、变化和趋势。文中第一段第二、三句中指出“Nothing could be further from the truth. The link between interest rates and inflation is uncertain”(而事实并非如此。利率和通货膨胀之间的关系并不是确定的)，第三段第一句话指出“It is also less than most forecasters had predicted”(这样的通胀率也低于许多预测家预测的数字)，第四段第一句话指出“Economists have been particularly surprised by favorable inflation figures in Britain and the United States”(尤其让经济学家感到惊讶的是，英美两国的通胀率带来了良性的结果)，而最后一段总结到“powerful structural changes in the world have up ended the old economic models that were based upon the historical link between growth and inflation”(世界经济结构强有力的变化已经打破了那个以经济增长和通货膨胀的原有关联为基础的旧有经济模式)。从这些语句中都可以判断作者也是以非常惊奇的语气来进行描述的，因此正确答案为D。

　　[题目译文]

　　文章显示了作者对目前形势的态度是 。

　　[A]批评

　　[B]困惑

　　[C]失望

　　[D]惊奇

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