UC知道2000年考研英语53题
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有朋友提出我没有题目，本来想在这里补充一下的，看到有位经理在回答里已经帮我补上了，大家可以看看哈，谢谢帮我补充的朋友。
对于帮我帖题目朋友的答案，我还是有些不解，我觉得全文第二句“but, if properly handled, it may become a driving force.”是使我选择D的关键，而且D选项中也很谦逊的使用了may，只是表示一种可能性，我真觉得有些无懈可击了 ～～还请大家指教
A history of long and effortless success can be a dreadful handicap, but, if properly handled, it may become a driving force. When the United States entered just such a glowing period after the end of the Second World War, it had a market eight ties larger than any competitor, giving its industries unparalleled economies of scale. Its scientists were the world's best, its workers the most skilled. America and Americans were prosperous beyond the dreams of the Europeans and Asians whose economies the war had destroyed.
It was inevitable that this primacy should have narrowed as other countries grew richer. Just as inevitably, the retreat from predominance proved painful. By the mid-1980s Americans had found themselves at a loss over their fading industrial competitiveness. Some huge American industries, such as consumer electronics, had shrunk or vanished in the face of foreign competition. By 1987 there was only one American television maker left, Zenith.(Now there