1. When the economy of European and Asian were deep in difficulties after WWII, the U.S. wasenjoying a period of_______________________.

　　2. Until the 1980s Americans began to realize their_____________was on the decline.

　　3. The loss of U.S. predominance in the world economy caused_______________.

　　4. According to the passage. some findings tended to attribute the causes of America'sindustrial decline to_____________.

　　5. What was the reason for the revival of the U.S. economy in the l990s in the author'sopinion?

　　1.[(economic) prosperity]

　　[定位]第1段最后一句。

　　解析：題干the economy of... were deep in difficulties是原文whose economies

　　the war had destroyed的近義改寫，答案在主句中找。主句說(shuō)戰(zhàn)后的美國(guó)繁榮富

　　裕。題干要求填入名詞，因此只需將prosperous改寫為prosperity即可。

　　2.[industrial competitiveness]

　　[定位]第2段第3句。

　　解析：根據(jù)時(shí)間狀語(yǔ)1980s查找到解題關(guān)鍵句。在20世紀(jì)80年代，美國(guó)人就發(fā)現(xiàn)他們的industrialcompetitiveness逐漸衰落。原文中的found 和fading分別對(duì)應(yīng)題干的realized和on the decline.

　　3.[a crisis of confidence]

　　[定位]第3段第1句。

　　解析：文章第2段主要是用一些具體的例子，描述美國(guó)的the retreat from predominance(退出統(tǒng)治地位)，即題干中的loss of U.S. predominance in the world economy，緊接著在第3段總結(jié)，說(shuō)所有這些對(duì)美國(guó)造成了a crisis of confidence(一場(chǎng)信心危機(jī))，即題干所問(wèn)的后果。

　　4.[the growing competition from overseas]

　　[定位]第3段最后一句。

　　解析：原文就美國(guó)產(chǎn)業(yè)衰退的原因引申了一些人的看法，提到某些調(diào)查結(jié)果中全是關(guān)于海外經(jīng)濟(jì)競(jìng)爭(zhēng)力增長(zhǎng)的警告，也就是說(shuō)這些調(diào)查結(jié)果傾向于將原因歸結(jié)為海外經(jīng)濟(jì)競(jìng)爭(zhēng)力增長(zhǎng)，故答案為the growingcompetition from overseas。

　　5.[A devalued dollar or the turning of the business cycle.]

　　[定位]最后一段第3句。

　　解析：該段第3句中this指代上一句提到的90年代美國(guó)經(jīng)濟(jì)的穩(wěn)步增長(zhǎng)，對(duì)應(yīng)題干中的the revival of theU.S. economyin the l990s。答案本句中找。obvious一詞表明作者認(rèn)為這時(shí)期美國(guó)經(jīng)濟(jì)的繁榮主要是因?yàn)锳 devalued dollar or the turning of the business cycle。后面內(nèi)容是一些名人對(duì)于美國(guó)經(jīng)濟(jì)的盲目自信，而非作者的觀點(diǎn)。注意避免觀點(diǎn)張冠李戴。