Question

根據短文內容，從短文后的選項中選出能填入空白處的最佳選項。選項中有兩項為多余選項。

1.      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. 2.      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.

3.      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.

4.      But for each person or business that is making and selling something, it is very concrete(具體的). If nobody buys your tomatoes, it won’t be long before you get the message. 5.   _____ It is telling you that you are using energies and resources in doing something the market doesn’t want you to do.

A. The market may be something abstract.

B. The sellers are always smarter than buyers.

C. When you spend your income, you are buying things from the market.

D. The market is a concept.

E. One has to make his ends meet when shopping.

F. The market is telling you something.

G. Your efforts are being directed by the market.

 

Answer 1

【答案】

 

1.D

2.G

3.C

4.A

5.F

【解析】

試題分析：本文是一篇議論文。文章用通俗的例子，講述了市場的概念。

1.考查學生對文章的理解和主題句的選擇。根據后文可知，文章用種西紅柿做例子，講述市場的概念。故選D。

2.考查上下文的語境理解。上文提到你在為市場生產，下文是：如果人們不買你的西紅柿，你就會停止種植。所以，中間句應該是：你的想法受市場的指導。故選G。

3.考查上下文的語境理解。根據下文You may spend money in stores, supermarkets, gas stations and restaurants. Still you are buying from the market.可知選C。

4.考查上下文的語境理解。根據下文的對應詞concrete(具體的)可知，這里和選項中的abstract.

相對，故選A。

5.考查上下文的語境理解。根據下文中的It is telling you that you are using energies and resources in doing something the market doesn’t want you to do.可知選F。

考點：考查考查上下文的語境理解及中心句的用法。