2023年GMAT阅读训练题1.pdf

其身正，不令而行；其身不正，虽令不从。——《论语》 2023 年 GMAT 阅读训练题 2023 年 GMAT 阅读训练题 GMAT 阅读新题一 During the 1960’s and 1970’s, the primary economic development strategy of local gover____ents in the United States was to attract manufacturing industries. Unfortunately, this strategy was usually implemented at another munity’s expense: many manufacturing facilities were lured away from their moorings elsewhere through tax incentives and slick promotional efforts. Through the transfer of jobs and related revenues that resulted from this practice, one town’s triumph could bee another town’s tragedy. In the 1980’s the strategy shifted from this zero-sum game (A situation in which a gain by one person or side must be matched by a loss by another person or side) to one called “high-technology development,” in which local gover____ents peted to attract newly formed high-technology manufacturing 第 1 页 共 11 页 勿以恶小而为之，勿以善小而不为。——刘备 吾日三省乎吾身。为人谋而不忠乎？与朋友交而不信乎？传不习乎？——《论语》 firms. Although this approach was preferable to victimizing other geographical areas by taking their jobs, it also had its shortings: high-tech manufacturing firms employ only a specially trained fraction of the manufacturing workforce, and there simply are not enough high-tech firms to satisfy all geographic areas. Recently, local gover____ents have increasingly e to recognize the advantages of yet a third strategy: the promotion of homegrown small businesses. Small indigenous businesses are created by a nearly ubiquitous resource, local entrepreneurs. With roots in their munities, these individuals are less likely to be enticed away by incentives offered by another