Poverty exists because American society is an unequal one, and there areoverwhelming political pressures to keep it that way. Any__1__to redistribute wealthand income in the United States will__2__be opposed by powerful middle- andupper-class interests. People can be relatively rich only if others are relatively poor, andsince power is__3__in the hands of the rich, public policies will continue to reflect theirinterests rather than those of the poor.
    As Herbert Gans (1973) has pointed out, poverty is actually.__4__from the point ofview of the nonpoor. Poverty__5__that "dirty" work gets done. If there are no poor peopleto scrub floors and empty bedpans ( 便盆 ) , these jobs would have to be__6__withhigh incomes before anyone would touch them. Poverty creates jobs for many of thenonpoor, such as police officers, weffare workers, pawnbrokers ( 典当商) , and governmentbureaucrats. Poverty makes life easier for the rich by providing them with cooks,gardeners, and other workers to perform basic chores while their employers enjoy morepleasurable activities. Poverty provides a market for__7__goods and services, such astwo-day-old bread, run-down automobiles, or the advice of__8__physicians and lawyers.
    There is no__9__, conscious "conspiracy ( 阴谋 ) " of the wealthy to keep the poor inpoverty. It is just that poverty is an inevitable__10__of the American economic system,which the poor are politically powerless to influence or change. 
A．attempt  
B．concentrated  
C．criticism   
D．deliberate   
E．dubiously 
F．endowed 
G．Ensures 
H．Functional 
I．Incompetent 
J．inevitably 
K．Inferior 
L．Invaluable 
M．Justifies 
N．Outcome 
O. rewarded