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1、高级商务英语练习Unit1theThreeSectorsoftheEconomyⅠ阅读理解JustovertenyearsagotheLabourPartyissuedaglossybookletentitledModernManufacturingStrength.IthadasitssubtitleBuildingaworldclasseconomy.ItrightlycomplainedofthedestructionofmuchofBritain’sindustrialcapacityduring
2、theyearsofConservativerule.ItcalledforanewstrategytoreviveBritishindustry.Labor’sbookletoftenyearsagosaidthatConservativepolicyimpliedthatmanufacturingcanbereplacedbytheservicesector.‘Thisisawhollyfalsedichotomy’,arguedthebooklet.‘Astrongservicesectorrequ
3、iresastrongmanufacturingbase’.Intradingterms,Labor’sbookletsaid,‘wemanufactureorperish’.Labor’sbookletreferredtowhatitdescribedasBritain’s‘appallingbalanceofpaymentsdeficit’.TodayBritishmanufacturingisevenweakerthanitwasten196yearsago.Itemploysfewerpeople
4、.Therearefewerfactories.Manufacturingoutputrepresentsadecliningproportionofthetotaloutputofgoodsandservices.Thebalanceofpaymentsonmanufactureditemsisasbadasithaseverbeen.ThedeclineinBritishmanufacturingaffectsnotonlytheoldso-called‘smoke-stack’industriesb
5、utalsoindustriesthatcontinuetocaterforasubstantialorgrowingmarket.Steel,engineering,motor-vehiclemanufacture,electricalgoods,shipbuilding,textiles,clothing,industrialchemicals,bootsandshoes,furniture,pottery,computermanufactureandmanyothersectionshaveallb
6、eenaffected.Theirmarketsharehasdeclined.ItisanironiccommentaryonthisrecordofcontractionthatsimultaneouslyunderNewLabourtheincomeofthetoppeoplehasleaptaheadofthegeneralriseinthepayofworkingpeople.ItisnotsuccessbutfailurethatBritishcapitalismhasbeenrewardin
7、g.Itisequallyironicthatitnowseemsthatourpublicsector,includingtheNationalHealthServiceandpartsoftheeducationalsystem,aretobeinjectedmoreandmorewiththefailedmedicineofthebossesfromtheprivatesector.Itisplainasplaincanbethatcapitalismhasfailedtohaltthedeclin
8、einBritishmanufacturingindustryandthatintheimmediatefuturemanufacturingwillcontinueonthepathofcontraction.196Labor’sbookletoftenyearsagocalledforanationalstrategyforthemodernizationofBritishindustry.Thiswouldnecessa
