【编者按】威廉希尔app 英语四六级频道为大家收集整理了“2012年英语六级深度阅读第二篇原文”供大家参考，希望对大家有所帮助!
【编者按】威廉希尔app 英语四六级频道为大家收集整理了“2012年英语六级深度阅读第二篇原文”供大家参考，希望对大家有所帮助!
2012年英语六级真题深度阅读第二篇原文再次选自《The Daily Beast》(《每日野兽》，美国新闻网站，由《纽约客》前总编蒂娜·布朗创办)!看来本次四六级出题人对该网站青睐有加哦，四级六级均有好几篇文章出自该网站。该篇文章标题“Asian Wisdom”，文章讲述亚洲繁荣的智慧，号召西方国家向亚洲学习。
文章全文如下，着色部分为试卷节选内容。
For most of the 20th century, Asia asked itself what it could learn from the modern, innovating West. Now the question must be reversed: what can the West’s overly indebted and sluggish nations learn from a flourishing Asia?
First and foremost, the West should relearn the virtue of pragmatism. Just a few decades ago, Asia’s two giants were stagnating under faulty politico-economic ideologies—strict Marxism in China, Nehruvian socialism in India. However, once China began embracing free-market reforms in the 1980s, followed by India in the 1990s, both countries achieved rapid growth. Crucially, as they opened up their markets, neither China nor India threw the proverbial baby out with the bath water—instead, they balanced capitalism with judicious government direction. As the Indian economist Amartya Sen has wisely said, “The invisible hand of the market has often relied heavily on the visible hand of government.”
Contrast this levelheaded middle path with America and Europe, which have each gone ideologically overboard in their own ways—and whose utter lack of pragmatism helped precipitate the global financial crisis. Since the 1980s, America has been increasingly infatuated with the ideology of unfettered free markets and dismissive of the role of government—following Ronald Reagan’s dictum that “government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.” Former U.S. Federal Reserve chief Alan Greenspan took this ideology to the extreme by refusing to regulate the large new market in derivatives that emerged under his watch and that quadrupled between 2002 and 2008 to 12 times the size of the total world economy. Of course, when the markets came crashing down in 2007, it was decisive government intervention that saved the day. Despite this fact, many Americans still espouse a deep ideological opposition to “big government,” as evidenced by the current wave of antitax Republicans and Tea Party candidates who swept into Congress during the midterm elections.