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Questions are based on the following passage．Poverty exists because American society is an unequal one, and there areoverwhelming political pressures to keep it that way. Any （1 ）to redistribute wealthand income in the United States will （2） be opposed by powerful middle- andupper-class interests. People can be relatively rich only if others are relatively poor, andsince power is （3） in the hands of the rich, public policies will continue to reflect theirinterests rather than those of the poor.
As Herbert Gans (1973) has pointed out, poverty is actually.（4）from the point ofview of the nonpoor. Poverty （5 ）that "dirty" work gets done. If there are no poor peopleto scrub floors and empty bedpans ( 便盆 ) , these jobs would have to be（ 6 ）withhigh incomes before anyone would touch them. Poverty creates jobs for many of thenonpoor, such as police officers, weffare workers, pawnbrokers ( 典当商) , and governmentbureaucrats. Poverty makes life easier for the rich by providing them with cooks,gardeners, and other workers to perform basic chores while their employers enjoy morepleasurable activities. Poverty provides a market for （7） goods and services, such astwo-day-old bread, run-down automobiles, or the advice of（8）physicians and lawyers.
There is no （9）, conscious "conspiracy ( 阴谋 ) " of the wealthy to keep the poor inpoverty. It is just that poverty is an inevitable （10） of the American economic system,which the poor are politically powerless to influence or change.
A．attempt
B．concentrated
C．criticism
D．deliberate
E．dubiously
F．endowed
G．Ensures
H．Functional
I．Incompetent
J．inevitably
K．Inferior
L．Invaluable
M．Justifies
N．Outcome
O.rewarded
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