试题

段1：①Could the bad old days of economic decline be about to return?... ⑤So where are the headlines warning of gloom and doom this time?

段2：①The oil price was given another push up this week when Iraq suspended oil exports. ②Strengthening economic growth, at the same time as winter grips the northern hemisphere, could push the price higher still in the short term.

段3：①Yet there are good reasons to expect the economic consequences now to be less severe than in the 1970s...

段4：①Rich economies are also less dependent on oil than they were, and so less sensitive to swings in the oil price. ②Energy conservation, a shift to other fuels and a decline in the importance of heavy, energy-intensive industries have reduced oil consumption...

段5：①One more reason not to lose sleep over the rise in oil prices is that, unlike the rises in the 1970s, it has not occurred against the background of general commodity-price inflation and global excess demand...

55. From the text we can see that the writer seems

[A] optimistic.

[B] sensitive.

[C] gloomy.

[D] scared.

答案：A

问：根据如下哪几个选项可以判断出作者的态度是optimistic的？（多选题）

A : less severe

B : have a more muted effect

C : less dependent

D : not to lose sleep

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