2019年GAMT考试阅读经典模拟练习题4

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Seventeenth-century philosopher John Locke stated that as much as 99 percent of the value of any useful product can be attributed to ―the effects of labor.‖ For Locke’s intellectual heirs it was only a short step to the ―labor theory of value,‖ whose formulators held that 100 percent of the value of any product is generated by labor (the human work needed to produce goods) and that therefore the employer who appropriates any part of the product’s value as profit is practicing theft.

Although human effort is required to produce goods for the consumer market, effort is also invested in making capital goods (tools, machines, etc.), which are used to facilitate the production of consumer goods.  In modern economies about one-third of the total output of consumer goods is attributable to the use of capital goods.  Approximately two-thirds of the income derived from this total output is paid out to workers as wages and salaries, the remaining third serving as compensation to the owners of the capital goods. Moreover, part of this remaining third is received by workers who are shareholders, pension beneficiaries, and the like. The labor theory of value systematically disregards the productive contribution of capital goods—a failing for which Locke must bear part of the blame.

7. According to the author of the passage, which of the following is true of the distribution of the income derived from the total output of consumer goods in a modern economy? (信息题)

A. Workers receive a share of this income that is significantly smaller than the value of their labor as a contribution to total output.

B. Owners of capital goods receive a share of this income that is significantly greater than the contribution to total output attributable to the use of capital goods.

C. Owners of capital goods receive a share of this income that is no greater than the proportion of total output attributable to the use of capital goods.

D. Owners of capital goods are not fully compensated for their investment because they pay out most of their share of this income to workers as wages and benefits.

E. Workers receive a share of this income that is greater than the value of their labor because the labor theory of value overestimates their contribution to total output.

8. The author of the passage is primarily concerned with(内容性主题题)

A. criticizing Locke’s economic theories

B. discounting the contribution of labor in a modern economy

C. questioning the validity of the labor theory of value

D. arguing for a more equitable distribution of business profits

E. contending that employers are overcompensated for capital goods

9. Which of the following arguments would a proponent of the labor theory of value, as it is presented in the first paragraph, be most likely to use in response to the statement that ―The labor theory of value systematically disregards the productive contribution of capital goods‖ (lines 44-47)? (信息题)

A. The productive contributions of workers and capital goods cannot be compared because the productive life span of capital goods is longer than that of workers.

B. The author’s analysis of the distribution of income is misleading because only a small percentage of workers are also shareholders.

C. Capital goods are valuable only insofar as they contribute directly to the production of consumer goods.

D. The productive contribution of capital goods must be discounted because capital goods require maintenance.

E. The productive contribution of capital goods must be attributed to labor because capital goods are themselves products of labor.

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