2006年考研英语模拟试题一(11)

[B] baby-boomers contribute much to the US economic output.

[C] government policies concerning older people are out-dated.

[D] older workers are enthusiastic about collecting social benefits.

34.When mentioning "the ongoing stock market on Wall Street", the writer

[A] is calling attention to the privileges to which baby-boomers are entitled.

[B] is calling for the government to take countermeasures against labor shortage.

[C] is refuting a notion about experienced workers' early retirement.

[D] is justifying the ineffectiveness of federal tax and benefit policies.

35.Towards the issue, what the writer is most concerned about will be

[A] to advocate radically reforming government policies.

[B] to take into account the benefits upon retirement.

[C] to put in practice what Hudson researchers believe in.

[D] to prolong the practicability of older experienced employees.

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The history of responses to the work of the artist Sandro Botticelli (1444-1510) suggests that widespread appreciation by critics is a relatively recent phenomenon. Writing in 1550, Vasari expressed an unease with Botticelli's work, admitting that the artist fitted awkwardly into his evolutionary scheme of the history of art. Over the next two centuries, academic art historians defamed Botticelli in favor of his