Part II、真題解題

1993年Passage 2

In general, our society is becoming one of giant enterprises directed by a bureaucratic (官僚主義的) management in which man becomes a small , well-oiled cog in the machinery. The oiling is done with higher wages, well-ventilated factories and piped music, and by psychologists and "human-relations" experts; yet all this oiling does not alter the fact that man has become powerless, that he does not wholeheartedly participate in his work and that he is bored with it. In fact, the blue-and the white-collar workers have become economic puppets who dance to the tune of automated machines and bureaucratic management.
 
The worker and employee are anxious, not only because they might find themselves out of a job; they are anxious also because they are unable to acquire any real satisfaction or interest in life. They live and die without ever having confronted the fundamental realities of human existence as emotionally and intellectually independent and productive human beings.
 
Those higher up on the social ladder are no less anxious. Their lives are no less empty than those of their subordinates. They are even more insecure in some respects. They are in a highly competitive race. To be promoted or to fall behind is not a matter of salary but even more a matter of self-respect. When they apply for their first job, they are tested for intelligence as well as for the tight mixture of submissiveness and independence. From that moment on they are tested again and again-by the psychologists, for whom testing is a big business, and by their superiors, who judge their behavior, sociability, capacity to get along, etc. This constant need to prove that one is as good as or better than one' s fellow-competitor creates constant anxiety and stress, the very causes of unhappiness and illness.
 
Am I suggesting that we should return to the preindustrial mode of production or to nineteenth-century "free enterprise" capitalism? Certainly not. Problems are never solved by returning to a stage which one has already outgrown. I suggest transforming our social system from a bureaucratically managed industrialism in which maximal production and consumption are ends in themselves into a humanist industrialism in which man and full development of his potentialities-those of love and of reason-are the aims of all social arrangements. Production and consumption should serve only as means to this end, and should be prevented from ruling man.

40. The author's attitude towards industrialism might best be summarized as one of __
[A] approval        
[B] dissatisfaction
[C] suspicion        
[D] tolerance

[答案] B

[解題思路]

縱觀全文，其主要基調就是表達了對目前這個工業化體制的不滿，人在其中失去了個性和獨立性。其中，文章第一段最后一句指出"In fact, the blue-and the white-collar workers have become economic puppets who dance to the tune of automated machines and bureaucratic management"（事實上，藍領和白領工人已經成了伴隨自動化機器和官僚主義管理方式的節奏翩翩起舞的經濟玩偶）。最后一段第二句話進一步指出"I suggest transforming our social system from a bureaucratically managed industrialism in which maximal production and consumption are ends in themselves into a humanist industrialism in which man and full development of his potentialities-those of love and of reason-are the aims of all social arrangements"（我建議把我們的社會制度從以最大限度生產和最大限度消費為目的的官僚主義管理工業體制變成一個充分發揮人的潛能--如愛和理性的潛能--為目的的人道主義工業體制），要求改變這個社會體制，作者的不滿情緒也是顯而易見的。

[題目譯文]

作者對于工業化的態度用以下哪個詞語可以最好的概括？
[A]贊成
[B]不滿
[C]懷疑
[D]容忍