1995年北京地区成人本科学士学
位英语统一考试
Part I Reading Comprehension (40%) Directions: There are three passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are
four choices marked A, B, C and D. You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on the answer sheet with a single line through the center.
Passage 1
Questions 1 to 5 are based on the following passage:
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 manager of the local supermarket. If people stop buying tomatoes, you will stop producing them.
If you bake care of a sick person to earn money, you are producing for the market. If your father is a steelworker 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 seem to be something abstract. But for each person or businessman who is making and selling something, it's very real. If nobody buys your tomatoes, it won't be long before you get the message. The market is telling you something. It's 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 for the passage? (What is the Market?)
2. A11 of the following acts are producing for the market EXCEPT (attending a night school).
3. You are buying form the market when you (dine at a restaurant). 4. The word \paragraph may most probably mean (concrete).
5. In what way is the market very real for each person or
businessman who is making and selling something? (It tells you what to produce)
Passage 2
Questions 6 to 10 are based on the following passage:
England is not a big country; from north to south and from east to west it
is only about three hundred miles across. But for a small country it has a surprising range of climate. People who have never visited England, or who have visited only one part of it, often make the mistake of thinking that it is a cold and wet country. Except for the summer months of June to September, this is probably true of the north of England and the Midlands. In the south, however, the climate is much more pleasant. One result is that when people retire from a job in the north they often prefer to move down to the milder south.
Perhaps the warmest part of the country is the southwest, which consists of the counties of Devon and Cornwall. The warm Gulf Stream flows across the North Atlantic Ocean from the Gulf of Mexico and makes the coastal regions of the southwest
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