[题目译文]

　　二战后美国之所以取得了优势地位是因为 。

　　[A] 该国为实现这一目标而付出了艰苦的努力

　　[B] 其国内市场是过去的八倍

　　[C] 战争摧毁了大部分潜在竞争对手的经济

　　[D] 该国无可比拟的劳动力大军对经济起到了推动作用

　　52. The loss of U.S. predominance in the world economy in the 1980s is manifested in the fact that the American_____.

　　[A] TV industry had withdrawn to its domestic market

　　[B] semiconductor industry had been taken over by foreign enterprises

　　[C] machine-tool industry had collapsed after suicidal actions

　　[D] auto industry had lost part of its domestic market

　　[答案] D

　　[解题思路]

　　本题的对应信息在文章的第二段。第五句及其括号中的内容说“By 1987 there was only one American television maker left, Zenith.(Now there is none: Zenith was bought by South Korea’s LG Electronics in July.)”(面对国外竞争，一些像消费电子产业之类的大型美国工业已经萎缩或渐渐消失。到1987年，美国只剩下Zenith一家电视生产商。(现在一家也没有了：Zenith于当年7月被韩国LG电器公司收购。))，这说明电视机产业即使在国内市场也几乎已经消失了，因此A选项正确。B选项对应于该段最后一句“For a while it looked as though the making of semiconductors, which America had which sat at the heart of the new computer age, was going to be the next casualty”(在新计算机时代有着核心作用的半导体正是美国人发明的，但是有一段时期这个产业也似乎面临崩溃)，文中认为半导体工业被外国企业接管是一种可能性，并没有选项表述地这么绝对，因此B选项也错误。C选项对应于该段倒数第二句话“Foreign-made cars and textiles were sweeping into the domestic market America’s machine-tool industry was on the ropes”(外国制造的汽车和纺织品正大举涌入国内市场。美国的机床工业也即将消失)，选项认为该行业已经崩溃，不符合题意。D选项对应于该段第三句话“By the mid-1980s Americans had found themselves at a loss over their fading industrial competitiveness”(到了20世纪80年代中期，面对其日益衰退的工业竞争力，美国人感到不知所措)，因此选项的表述是符合原文的。

　　[题目译文]

　　美国在20世纪80年的世界经济中失去了统治地位，这可以通过以下 事实表现出来。

　　[A] 其电视行业退回到了国内市场

　　[B] 半导体工业被外国企业接管

　　[C] 机床业在其自杀性行为后倒闭

　　[D] 汽车业失去了部分国内市场