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ork hard at solving some problems which can’t be solved easily D. we should remain calm and positive when confronted with problems Questions 55 to 58 are based on the following passage: Most of all, America is inescapable. It is the world’s 900-pound gorilla: basically amiable and well-meaning, crushing through the underbrush, dominating the landscape, altering the scenery, impossible either to shoo away or ignore. Its fads, fashions, folk-ways and fast food sweep around the globe; its brandishing of missiles scares even its allies. It is a standard for the world’s successes and a scapegoat for the world’s failures. There has always been ambivalence about the United States. Throughout the country’s meteoric history, people have admired its energy, riches and opportunity—and envied and resented its power and success. Since World War II, however, that ambivalence has become even more pronounced, and today the world sees America as a curious paradox: a country whose military, diplomatic and economic prestige has been waning in a period when its cultural influence has never been stronger. The jarring discordance in feelings about American politics and culture takes some odd and comic forms: on Nicaragua’s state-run television network, for instance, American programs like “Barnaby Jones” are interspersed with “commercials” demonstrating how to throw grenades in the event of Yankee invasion. The key distinction is simply between the American people—who are seen as warm, friendly and ingenuous—and the U.S. government. That was underlined in a poll conducted for Newsweek International in six countries around the world. In the countries surveyed—France, Japan, Great Britain, West Germany, Brazil and Mexico—most respondents expressed approval for the American people, but a plurality said they disapproved of U.S. government policy. Moreover, the poll found people inclined to think that a strong American military presence increases the chances for war instead of safeguarding peace. That finding represents a significant change from the early postwar years: a similar survey taken by the U.S. Information Agency in the early fifties showed broad approval for the role of American troops. American influence in the world is seen as actually increasing—a perception that may be due largely to the strong impact America has on movies, television and music around the world. Some images of America remain constant. The United St
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