Two other explanations are more speculative. First, some of the business restructuring of recent years may have been ineptly done. Second, even if it was well done, it may have spread much less widely than people suppose.

　　Leonard Schlesinger, a Harvard academic and former chief executive of Au Bong Pain, a rapidly growing chain of bakery cafes, says that much “re engineering” has been crude. In many cases, he believes, the loss of revenue has been greater than the reductions in cost. His colleague, Michael Beer, says that far too many companies have applied re engineering in a mechanistic fashion, chopping out costs without giving sufficient thought to long term profitability. BBDO’s Al Rosenshine is blunter. He dismisses a lot of the work of re engineering consultants as mere rubbish - “the worst sort of ambulance cashing.”

　　55. According to the author, the American economic situation is _____ .

　　[A][not as good as it seems

　　[B] at its turning point

　　[C ]much better than it seems

　　[D] near to complete recovery

　　[答案] A

　　[解题思路]

　　文章第一段最后一句话指出“What is harder to establish is whether the productivity revolution that businessmen assume they are presiding over is for real”(但是，更加难以确定的是商家自认为他们发动的这场生产率革命是否真的名副其实)，紧接着第二段第五句话进一步认为“The trouble is that part of the recent acceleration is due to the usual rebound that occurs at this point in a business cycle, and so is not conclusive evidence of a revival in the underlying trend”(而问题在于，近年出现的生产力快速增长部分是由于商业周期通常到了这时候常出现的反弹造成的，因而还不能以此作为最终的证据来证明这种趋势预示出经济复苏的姿态)，这些都说明了作者并不认为美国经济已经从根本上复苏，现在看到的只是表面现象，因而A为正确选项。做好本题的关键就是要抓住这些分布在不同地方的相关信息，理解长句的含义并将它们结合起来一起帮助做题。

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