The market is a concept. If you are growing tomatoes in your backyard for sale you are producing for the market. You might sell some to your neighbor and some to the local manager of the supermarket. But in either case, you are producing for the market. Your efforts are being directed by the market. If people stop buying tomatoes, you will stop producing them.
If you take care of a sick person to earn money, you are producing for the market. If your father is a steel worker or a truck driver or a doctor or a grocer, he is producing goods or service for the market.
When you spend your income, you are buying things from the market. You may spend money in stores, supermarkets, gas stations and restaurants. Still you are buying from the market. When the local grocer hires you to drive the delivery truck, he is buying your labor in the labor market.
The market may be something abstract (抽象的). But for each person or business that is making and selling something, it is very concrete. If nobody buys your tomatoes, it won’t be long before you get the message. The market is telling you something. It is telling you that you are using energies and resources in doing something the market doesn’t want you to do.
1. Which of the following would be the best title of the passage?
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A．Selling and Buying. |
B．Everything you do is producing for the market. |
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C．What is the market? |
D．What the market can do for you. |
2.All of the following acts are producing for the market except________.
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A．working in a bank |
B．attending a night school |
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C．driving a taxi |
D．growing beans for sale |
3.You are buying from the market when you________.
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A．borrow a book from the library |
B．drive to the seaside for a holiday |
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C．look after your children |
D．dine at restaurant |
4.The word “concrete” in the last paragraph may most probably mean________.
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A．serious |
B．important |
C．necessary |
D．real |
The 92-year-old, thin, calm and proud lady, who is fully dressed each morning by eight o’clock, even though she is nearly blind, moved to a nursing home today.
Her husband of 70 years recently passed away, making the move necessary. After many hours of waiting patiently in the hall of the nursing home, she smiled sweetly when told her room was ready.
As she walked slowly to the elevator, I provided a true description of her tiny room, including the old sheets that had been hung on her window. “I love it,” she said with the happiness of an eight-year-old having just been presented with a new puppy.
“Mrs. Jones, you haven’t seen the room…just wait.”
“That doesn’t matter,” she replied. “Happiness is something you decide ahead of time. Whether I like my room or not doesn’t depend on how the furniture is arranged. It’s how I arranged my mind. I have already decided to love it. It’s a decision I make every morning when I wake up. Each day is a gift, and as long as my eyes open I’ll focus on the new day and all the happy memories I’ve stored away.” She went on to explain, “Old age is like a bank account. You take what you’ve put in. So, my advice to you would be to put in a lot of happiness in the bank account of memories. Thank you for your part in filling my memory bank.” And with a smile, she said, “All my memories are happy ones.”
Mrs. Jones was always happy in the nursing home and she died at the age of 108.
1.We can infer from the passage that the author________.
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A．is one of Mrs. Jones’ children |
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B．is a relative of Mrs. Jones |
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C．works in the nursing home |
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D．is the owner of the nursing home |
2.The room in which the old lady will live________.
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A．is very comfortable |
B．is fairly big |
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C．isn’t well equipped |
D．is equipped with new furniture |
3.Mrs. Jones was very happy when told about her room because she________.
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A．couldn’t see what her room was like |
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B．thought the nursing home was her home |
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C．would have to live in the nursing home |
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D．had already made up her mind to be happy |
4. Which of the following words can best describe Mrs. Jones?
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A．Proud. |
B．Pleasant. |
C．Determined |
D．Honest |
After my 26 second-graders finished reciting the text, they settled back in their seats. But Duane was still __21__ there. Duane was a bright and lovable student, __22__ his mother, a single parent, had many problems such as drinking. __23__ that he might have had a bad night, I walked over to him to see what was wrong. As he looked up, I could see the __24__ in his dark eyes.
“Mrs. Brown, aren’t you going to open my present for you?” he asked __25__. “I put it on your desk.”
Getting back his gift from my desk, he handed it to me. I noticed my gift __26__ to be a matchbox. Duane told me that this was really a jewelry box __27__ a matchbox. As I opened it, the __28__ of two beer caps surprised me. Duane __29__ me that they were two earrings. He had noticed that I __30__ wore earrings and wanted me to have some pretty ones.
I was __31__ by Duane’s creativity and thoughtfulness. __32__ birth, one of my ears was slightly deformed (畸形的). Fearing that wearing earrings might __33__ to the ear, I avoided wearing them. But how could I __34__ to wear these precious earrings given by this __35__ child?
As I placed the earrings on my ears, my __36__ clapped, and Duane stood proudly beside me.
Since then, the matchbox remained on my desk. It __37__ me of Duane’s act of kindness and of the lessons he taught me. Although his __38__ at home was bad, Duane continued to see the good in life. Although poor, he still wanted to __39__. Whenever I see Duane’s gift on my desk, I feel encouraged. If I am having __40__ reaching a student, I’ll try to be like Duane and give that student a piece of my heart.
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— Are you getting a new apartment this year?
—________ I can’t afford to pay my bills. How can I buy a new apartment?
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A．Don’t mention it. |
B．You must be joking. |
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C．Are you sure? |
D．Good idea! |
She was so ________ in her job that she didn’t hear anybody knocking at the door.
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A．attracted |
B．absorbed |
C．drawn |
D．focused |
The project, ________ in 2009, has expanded the city’s cellphone network to cover one million users.
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A．accomplished |
B．being accomplished |
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C．to be accomplished |
D．having accomplished |
