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有人以“从摇篮到坟墓的全面照顾”来形容1949年以来的英国国民。这主要是突出英国是一个福利国家。二战后，西方发达国家在生产力发展的基础上确立并完善了社会福利制度。以下对“福利国家”的认识，不正确的是（   ）   A．缓解社会矛盾，改善了低收入阶层的生活   B．扩大了社会消费，提高了人们工作积极性   C．财政支出扩大，造成财政赤字   D．其实质是国民收入的再分配第二节 完形填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）请认真阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。Think you can’t be happy? You’ll think again after reading this story.Barbara Ann Kipfer hated her feet. They were too big and she always seemed to   36   over them when someone was   37   —usually a smart guy. Come to think of it, her teeth were too big, too. The other kids teased her because of the way she   38   and because she wanted to be a sportswriter some day. No matter what she did, she was teased for being “  39  .”That’s   40   she started writing down things that she liked in a notebook. “It was like a friend, and it   41   me that there are good things,   42   everything around me is unpleasant,” she says. She copied the list over and over,   43   new things every day.One day, she decided to   44   her list with some of the girls in her class, hoping they would think it was as much fun as she did. But   45  , they made her feel stupid again. “They laughed at me,” she remembers, “I was ashamed, and I   46   doing it.” Here comes the  47  part. When she was in 10th grade, Kipfer found her old notebook and decided to   48   where she left off. “It was like a diary, like a photograph of my life,” she says. She started writing to publishers, asking them if they’d be interested in printing her list as a book.She kept writing to one company   49  , because she liked the types of books it printed. “He kept saying, ‘It’s just a list, what am I supposed to do with it?’” “You’re not   50   to do anything with it. It’s   51   supposed to remind people of something they did that was really  52  .”Finally, the publisher   53   to turn Kipfer’s list into a book, which sold more than million copies! 14,000 Things to Be Happy About even   54   it to be New York Times Best Sellers list.   55   being a best-selling author, Kipfer also went to realize her dream of becoming a sports editor at the Chicago Tribune.36. A. jump                         B. fall                          C. turn                         D. push37. A. nearby                       B. around                            C. watching                  D. laughing38. A. dressed                      B. lived                        C. thought                    D. looked39. A. foolish                      B. special                            C. different                   D. shy40. A. what                         B. when                       C. because                    D. where41. A. reminded                   B. told                         C. persuaded                 D. helped42. A. because                            B. but                          C. unless                      D. even though43. A. adding                       B. finding                     C. making                    D. giving44. A. talk                           B. discuss                     C. share                        D. write45. A. then                          B. naturally                  C. further                            D. instead46. A. continued                  B. stopped                    C. enjoyed                    D. hated47. A. cool                          B. important                 C. exciting                    D. funny48. A. find out                            B. pick up                    C. think of                    D. give up49. A. in general                  B. at first                      C. in particular              D. at last50. A. made                         B. going                       C. advised                    D. supposed51. A. often                         B. just                          C. also                         D. always52. A. excellent                    B. successful                 C. fun                          D. true53. A. hoped                        B. agreed                      C. refused                     D. considered54. A. made                         B. expected                  C. hoped                      D. helped55. A. Without                            B. Instead of                 C. While                      D. Besides