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older Americans are poor, But most of them aren’t. It is impossible to determine the impact of the
discounts on individual companies. For many firms, they are a stimulus to revenue. But in other
cases the discounts are given at the expense.
　　Directly or indirectly, of younger Americans. Moreover, they are a direct irritant in what
some politicians and scholars see as a coming conflict between the generations.
　　Generational tensions are being fueled by continuing debate over Social Security benefits，
which mostly involves a transfer of resources from the young to the old. Employment is another
sore point, Buoyed (支持) by laws and court decisions, more and more older Americans are
declining the retirement dinner in favor of staying on the job-thereby lessening employment and
promotion opportunities for younger workers.
　　Far from a kind of charity they once were, senior citizen discounts have become a formidable
economic privilege to a group with millions of members who don’t need them.
　　It no longer makes sense to treat the elderly as a single group whose economic needs deserve
priority over those of others. Senior citizen discounts only enhance the myth that older people
can’t take care of themselves and need special treatment； and they threaten the creation of a new
myth, that the elderly are ungrateful and taking for themselves at the expense of children and other
age groups. Senior citizen discounts are the essence of the very thing older Americans are fighting
against-discrimination by age.
31. We learn from the first paragraph that____.
A) offering senior citizens discounts has become routine commercial practice
B) senior citizen discounts have enabled many old people to live a decent life
C) giving senior citizens discounts has boosted the market for the elderly
D) senior citizens have to show their birth certificates to get a discount
32. What assumption lies behind the practice of senior citizen discounts?
A) Businesses, having made a lot of profits, should do something for society in return.
B) Old people are entitled to special treatment for the contribution they made to society.
C) The elderly, being financially underprivileged，need humane help from society.
D) Senior citizen discounts can make up for the inadequacy of the Social Security system.
33. According to some politicians and scholars, senior citizen discounts will___.
A) make old people even more dependent on society
B) intensify conflicts between the young and the old
C) have adverse financial impact on business companies
D) bring a marked increase in the companies revenues
34. How does the author view the Social Security system?
A) It encourages elderly people to retire in time.
B) It opens up broad career prospects for young people.
C) It benefits the old at the expense of the young
D) It should be reinforced by laws and court decisions
35. Which of the following best summarizes the author’s main argument?
A) Senior citizens should fight hard against age discrimination.
B) The elderly are selfish and taking senior discounts for granted.
C) Priority should be given to the economic needs of senior citizens.
D) Senior citizen discounts may well be a type of age discrimination.

Passage Four
Questions 36 to 40 are based on the following passage.

　　In 1854 my great-grandfather, Morris Marable, was sold on an auction block in Georgia for
＄500. For his white slave master, the sale was just “business as usual.” But to Morris Marable
and his heirs, slavery was a crime against our humanity. This pattern of human rights violations
against enslaved African-Americans continued under racial segregation for nearly another century.
The fundamental problem of American democracy in the 21st century is the problem of “structural
racism” the deep patterns of socio-economic inequality and accumulated disadvantage that are
coded by race, and constantly justified in public speeches by both racist stereotypes and white
indifference. Do Americans have the capacity and vision to remove these structural barriers that
deny democratic rights and opportunities to millions of their fellow
citizens?
　　This country has previously witnessed two great struggles to achieve a truly multicultural
democracy.
　　The First Reconstruction (1865-1877) ended slavery and briefly gave black men voting rights,
but gave no meaningful compensation for two centuries of unpaid labor. The promise of “40 acres
and a mule (骡子)”was for most blacks a dream deferred (尚未实现的).
　　The Second Reconstruction (1954-1968), or the modern civil rights movement, ended legal
segregation in public accommodations and gave blacks voting rights . But these successes

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