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考研英语(真题)阅读理解专题（一） Passage 1 Ahistory of long and effortless suess can be adreadful handicap, but, if properly handled, it ___y bee adriving for ___. When the United States entered just such aglowing period after the end of the Second World War, it had a ___rket eight ties larger than any pe ___, giving its industries unparalleled economies of scale. Its scientists were the worlds 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 pri ___cy should have narrowed as other countries grew richer. Just as inevitably, the retreat from predominan ___ proved painful. By the mid-1980s Americans had found themselves at aloss over their fading industrial petitiveness. Some huge American industries, such as consumer electronics, had shrunk or vanished in the fa ___ of foreign petition. By 1987 there was only one American television ___ker left, Zenith.(Now there is none: Zenith was bought by South