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Word文档下载后（可任意编辑） 第 第 PAGE 1 页 共 NUMPAGES 1 页 GRE阅读练习： 产能过剩和产能不足如何解决 GRE阅读文章：GRE阅读练习： 产能过剩和产能不足如何解决 GRE考试精品课程训练  In 1804 Jean-Baptiste Say enrolled in the National Conservatory of Arts and Crafts in Paris to learn the principles of spinning cotton.  1804年，让·巴蒂斯特·萨伊在巴黎国民工艺美院报名入学，学习纺织棉花的原理。  The new student was 37 years old, points out his biographer, Evert Schoorl, with a pregnant wife, four children and a successful career in politics and letters trailing behind him.  他的传记艾佛特·斯库尔 (Evert Schoorl)指出，这名新学生当时已经37岁，有一位已经怀孕的妻子、4个孩子以及在政界和文坛的功成名就。  To resume his studies, he had turned down two lucrative offers from Frances most powerful man, Napoleon Bonaparte.  为了重新开始学习，他已经拒绝了来自当时法国最有权势的人——拿破仑·波拿巴的两次厚邀。  The ruler would have paid him handsomely to write in support of his policies.  这位统治者本来要重金聘请他，让他撰写支持他的政策的文章。  But rather than “deliver orations in favour of the usurper”, Say decided instead to build a cotton mill, spinning yarn not policy.  但是，萨伊不但没有“发表美化这位篡位者的文章”，反而决定建造一座棉纺厂，纺纱织布，而不是制定政策。  Napoleon was right to value (and fear) Says pen.  拿破仑重视(并害怕)萨伊的这支笔是对的。  As a pamphleteer, editor, scholar and adviser, he was a passionate advocate for free speech, trade and markets.  作为一名小册子、编辑、学者和顾问，他是一位自由言论、自由贸易和自由市场的热情支持者。  He had imbibed liberal principles from his heavily annotated copy of Adam Smiths “The Wealth Of Nations” and bolstered his patriotic credentials in battle against Prussian invaders. (During breaks in the fighting, he discussed literature and political economy with other learned volunteers “almost within cannonballs reach”. )  他从他那本满是解释的亚当·斯密的《国富论》的书中汲取了自由原则，并在抗击普鲁士入侵者的战斗巩固了他的爱国者声誉(在战斗间隙，他曾与其他几位博学的自愿者“几乎是在炮弹射程之内”，讨论文学和政治经济学。)  His greatest work was “A Treatise on Political Economy”, a graceful exposition (and extension) of Smiths economic ideas.  他最伟大的作品是《政治经济学概论》(A Treatise on Political Economy)，这是一部对亚当·斯密的经济学思想做出了优雅的阐释(和扩充)的著作。  In Says time, as nowadays, the world economy