大学英语课件-Rich North, Hungry South.pptVIP

What example has the author given of the adaptive power of a market economy? To illustrate the adaptive power of market economy, the author gives examples that people can get jobs in newly-established industries and better their living standards. This happened when farm employment in the industrial countries almost disappeared and even now when manufacturing employment in America remains at only 15% of the labor force. Language Points 1. alongside: together with; besides 2. part and parcel of: if you say something is part and parcel of something else, you are emphasizing that it is involved or included in it. 主要部分，重要部分 e.g. 1)Keeping the accounts is part and parcel of my job. 2) Human needs should be part and parcel of the whole planning and design process. What’s the topic of Part Two (P3-5) The two worries are caused by two wrong convictions. (Analysis of the essence of the two worries) Paraphrase (para. 6) Yet it does not suffice to refute elementary fallacies. (line 1) But it (statements mentioned above: job-replacement, improvement in living standard) is not enough to prove that the two elementary ideas are wrong. Paraphrase 6 Sophisticated alarmists avoid them (taking care, obviously, not to educate their listeners). (line 1) Those intelligent and well-informed alarmists try not to mention the two false ideas and, obviously, make sure not to educate their listeners. Paraphrase (para. 6) Put carefully, their case goes as follows (line 3) Considered carefully, the reasoning these alarmists’ offer can be expressed in the following way. The breadth and intensity of third-world competition is increasing. (line 3) Third-world competition is spreading to more areas and growing stronger. Paraphrase (para.6) Wages there are being forced down and jobs lost. (line 6) In the developed countries, wages are being forced to go down and jobs are disappearing (many people will be unemployed). Modern societies (with weak ties of family and religions) are no longer