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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：墨西哥中产阶级的愤怒 GRE阅读文章：GRE阅读练习：墨西哥中产阶级的愤怒 GRE考试精品课程训练  IN THE hallowed name of the middle class, Mexicos politicians have been doing a lot of huffing and puffing lately.  在中产阶级的神圣名义下，墨西哥的政治家最近一直在进行大量愤怒抨击。  The source of their indignation is the presidents plan to raise income tax on annual salaries over 500,000 pesos and impose value-added tax on private schooling and mortgage payments.  他们愤怒的起因是总统对年工资收入超过500,000比索的人提高所得税和对私人学校和抵押贷款征收增值税的计划。  That, the peoples representatives complain, would beat the stuffing out of ordinary, hard-working families, so they plan to spare them the tax on schooling and housing.  这样的话，人民的代表们抱怨道，会使普通的，努力工作的家庭一蹶不振，所以他们打算帮他们在教育和房贷方面减轻税务负担。  If only the middle class were so lucky.  如果中产阶级有这么幸运的话。  According to measurements by the national statistics institute, most of its members earn nowhere near the 500,000-peso threshold, let alone send their children to private school or pay mortgages.  根据国家统计局的测量，它的大部分成员每年赚的远远不到500，000门槛，更不用说送他们的孩子去私人学校或者支付抵押贷款了。  Defining the middle class in Mexico has become a subject of fierce debate since two pundits, Luis de la Calle and Luis Rubio, published a book last year called Mexico: A Middle Class Society.  明确在墨西哥的中产阶级成为激烈辩论的一个话题，自从两个学者，Luis de Ia Calle and Luis Rubio,去年出版了一本名为墨西哥：一个中产阶级社会。  Poor No More, Developed Not Yet.  不再贫穷，尚未发达。  It claimed that more than half of Mexicos population had joined the bourgeoisie.  它声称超过一半的墨西哥人口已经成为了资产阶级。  INEGIs statisticians were sceptical, partly because the book used access to technology as a measure of social status.  国家统计局的统计员们对此持怀疑态度，部分是因为这本书以接触到现代科技作为社会地位的估量措施。  So the institute set out to develop a new definition, not based on any preconceptions of what a middle-class household should look like.  所以这个机构着手发展一个新的定义，不是基于任何对中产阶级的房子应该是什么样子的先入之见。  First, INEGI looked at spending rather than income.  首先，国家统计局把视线投向花费而不是收入