V. Reading Comprehension
Please read the passages below. Each passage will be followed by several
questions. Choose the option that best answers each of these questions on the
basis of what is stated or implied in the passage.
Passage A
Andrew Carnegie soon turned to manufacturing iron and steel in Pittsburgh, taking
full and grateful benefit of protective tariffs—although he had previously been an
advocate of free trade and later, after he had his millions, would be one again. Each
year he alternated between amassing his huge fortune in America and traveling to
Britain. There he followed in the tradition of his grandfather by making radical
speeches against all forms of special privilege. His rhetoric was noticeably tamer in
Pittsburgh.
Carnegie’s principles almost always seemed to bend to fit his interest. Yet, if he
had been less principled, less impeded by such inhibitions as principle placed in his path
through the nineteenth-century capitalistic jungle, it is quite probable that his legacy
would have been less benign. After all, he did found and endow the Carnegie
Corporation of New York, which in the first half-century after his death would make
grants almost equal to his entire fortune while at the same time greatly increasing its
capital. If he did not quite die poor, he made a game try at and probably worked harder
at giving money away than he ever had at making it.
【題組】42. Carnegie’s attitude toward free trade was apparently .
(A) expressed frequently in Pittsburgh
(B) a great hindrance to his business dealings
(C) adjusted to accommodate his business interests
(D) an unchanging conviction throughout his life
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