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V. Reading ComprehensionPlease read the passages below. Each passage will be followed by severalquestions. Choose the option that best answers each of these questions on thebasis of what is stated or implied in the passage.Passage AAndrew Carnegie soon turned to manufacturing iron and steel in Pittsburgh, takingfull and grateful benefit of protective tariffs—although he had previously been anadvocate of free trade and later, after he had his millions, would be one again. Eachyear he alternated between amassing his huge fortune in America and traveling toBritain. There he followed in the tradition of his grandfather by making radicalspeeches against all forms of special privilege. His rhetoric was noticeably tamer inPittsburgh.Carnegie’s principles almost always seemed to bend to fit his interest. Yet, if hehad been less principled, less impeded by such inhibitions as principle placed in his paththrough the nineteenth-century capitalistic jungle, it is quite probable that his legacywould have been less benign. After all, he did found and endow the CarnegieCorporation of New York, which in the first half-century after his death would makegrants almost equal to his entire fortune while at the same time greatly increasing itscapital. If he did not quite die poor, he made a game try at and probably worked harderat giving money away than he ever had at making it.
41. According to the author, Carnegie was able to make a great fortune partly becauseof .
(A) favorable tariffs
(B) free trade
(C) his grandfather
(D) his radical speeches

參考答案

答案：A
難度：適中0.645833
統計：A(62),B(16),C(6),D(11),E(0)

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