1、42017年GRE考試綜合閱讀測試題及答案Many scholars have argued that government investment in manufacturing in the southern United States during the Second World War spurred a regional economic boom that lasted into the postwar period. But much of this investment went to specialized plants, many of them unsuitable f

2、or postwar production. Large-scale, wartime government funding led to a massive increase in the number and scale of munitions facilities. By the war ' s end, 216 munitions establishment costing more than $3.5 billion had been built, many of them located in the south. Indeed, according to one est

3、imate, more than 70 percentof federallyfinancedmanufacturing constructioncapitalin Alabama,Arkansas,Even in the northernMississippi, and Tennessee went into munitions plants.regions with strong prewar manufacturing economics, these plants were difficult to dealwith once the imperative of war had bee

4、n removed. In the south few industrialists had the capacity or desire to transformthese factories to a peacetime function. Accordingly, at war ' s end almost all of the southern munitions facilities were shut down, placed on standby, operated at a very low capacity, or converted to nonmanufactur

5、ing functions, usually storage. Although some reopened a few years later for use during theKorean War, the impact of the special plants on the South' spostwar economy was marginal at best.1. The primary purpose of the passage is toA. propose an alternative explanationB. challenge a widely held p

6、ositionC. contrast two views of a phenomenonD. explain why a particular claim has been influentialE. evaluate evidence used to support a particular viewConsider each of the choices separately and select all that apply.2. According to the passage, some southern munitions plants built in the South dur

7、ing the Second World War wereA. later reopened and used once more as munitions plantsB. used for nonmanufacturing purposes after the warC. originally envisioned as continuing to manufacture munitions at high capacity even after the war had ended3. In the passage, the mention of“Alabama, Arkansas,Mis

8、sissippi, and Tennessee ” serves primarily toA. suggest that some states were better than others at anticipating postwar economic needsB. identify evidence used to support a view held by scholars mentioned at the beginning of the passageC. suggest that federal investment in some kinds of manufacturing was excessiveD. identify the states that received the largest allocations of feder