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  3. While still in its early stages, welfare reform has already been judged a g

While still in its early stages, welfare reform has already been judged a g

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问题      While still in its early stages, welfare reform has already been judged a great success in many states—at least in getting people off welfare. It’s estimated that more than 2 million people have left the rolls since 1994.
     In the past four years, welfare rolls in Athens County have been cut in half. But 70 per cent of the people who left in the past two years took jobs that paid less than ＄6 an hour. The result: the Athens County poverty rate still remains at mote than 30 percent-twice the national average.
     For advocates for the poor, that’s an indication of much more needs to be done.
     "More people are getting jobs, but it’s not making their lives any better," says Kathy Lairn, a policy analyst at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities in Washington.
     A center analysis of US Census data nationwide found that between 1995 and 1996, a greater percentage of single, female-headed household were earning money on-their own, but that average income for these households actually went down.
     But for many, the fact that poor people are able to support themselves almost as well without government aid as they did with it is in itself a huge victory.
     "Welfare was a poison. It was a toxin that was poisoning the family," says Robert Rector, a welfare-reform policy analyst. "The reform is changing the moral climate in low-income communities. It’s beginning to rebuild the work ethic, which is much more important."
     Mr. Rector and others argued that once "the habit of dependency is cracked," then the country can make other policy changes aimed at improving living standards. [br] From the passage, it can be seen that the author ______.
选项 A、believes the reform has reduced the government’s burden
B、insists that welfare reform is doing little good for the poor
C、is over-enthusiastic about the success of welfare reform
D、considers welfare reform to be fundamentally successful
答案 D
解析 通观全文，可知作者要说明的是社会福利改革使人们摆脱了对福利的依赖，过上了自立的生活，并改变了人们工作的道德观念。这一切都印证了作者在本文开头亮明的观点“welfare reform has already been judged a great success in many states"，由此可见正确答案为D 。
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