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　　China has been through a wrenching series of changes and experiments. (1) It is not for me, or for others in America, to tell China what its economic system should be. What works best for China will be a system rooted in China itself-in Chinese customs and traditions and ways of doing things. (2) The proof of any system lies in its results: in the extent to which it provides for the people more of what those people want. What the people of China want will not be in all respects the same as what the people of the United States would want. But in some respects it will be the same. The bottom lines test of any economic system is whether it works. (3) An economic system that works is one that creates incentives to produce, and provides a fair distribution of what is produced. What incentives will work, what distribution is seen to be “fair”---these are questions that different cultures may answer differently, and that even the same culture may answer differently in different periods of history or at different stages of its development.

　　Among the great nations, the United States’ economic system is the most successful in history in producing prosperity. The Chinese system is the most successful in history in producing equality. (4)The challenge we both face is to avoid forcing people to make a hard choice between a system at one extreme which provides equality but would perpetuate poverty and one at the other extreme which provides prosperity but would ignore poverty. Poverty is too high a price to pay for either equality or prosperity. China’s challenge is to support the principle of equality without destroying the productivity of the people. America’s challenge is to provide prosperity which gives all an opportunity to escape from poverty. (5) Our systems are profoundly different, but in long view our goal of a better life for all our people is the same.

　　——選自《2008年考研英語閱讀完型翻譯全突破》

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　　1. 不論是我還是其他美國人都不便說中國應當實行什么樣的經濟制度。

　　2. 檢驗任何制度的標準在于它的成效，在于他能在多大程度上向人民更多地提供他們所需要的東西。

　　3. 一個行之有效的經濟制度能刺激生產的積極性，能公平的分配產品。

　　4. 我們兩國面臨的共同挑戰(zhàn)是避免強迫人民在兩個極端之間做出困難的選擇：一種制度實現(xiàn)了平等，但會使貧窮長期繼續(xù)下去；另一種制度帶來了繁榮，卻會無視貧困。

　　5．我們兩國的制度有著深刻的差別，但從長遠看，我們?yōu)楸緡�全體人民謀求更好生活的目標則是一致的。