单选题
Many people invest in the stock market hoping to
find the next Microsoft and Dell. However, I know{{U}} {{U}} 1
{{/U}} {{/U}}personal experience how difficult this really is. For more than a
year, I was{{U}} {{U}} 2 {{/U}} {{/U}}hundreds and sometimes
thousands of dollars a day in investing in the market. It seemed so easy,
I dreamed of{{U}} {{U}} 3 {{/U}} {{/U}}my job at the end of the
year, of buying a small apartment in Paris, of traveling around the world. But
these dreams{{U}} {{U}} 4 {{/U}} {{/U}}to a sudden and dramatic
end when a stock I{{U}} {{U}} 5 {{/U}} {{/U}}, Texas cellular
pone wholesaler, fell by more than 75 per cent{{U}} {{U}} 6
{{/U}} {{/U}}a one year period. On the{{U}} {{U}} 7 {{/U}}
{{/U}}day, it plunged by more than $ 15 a share. There was a rumor that the
company was{{U}} {{U}} 8 {{/U}} {{/U}}sales figures. That was
when I learned how quickly Wall Street{{U}} {{U}} 9 {{/U}}
{{/U}}companies that, in one way or another, misrepresent the{{U}} {{U}}
10 {{/U}} {{/U}}. In a{{U}} {{U}}
11 {{/U}} {{/U}}, I sold all my stocks in the company,{{U}}
{{U}} 12 {{/U}} {{/U}}margin debt with cash advances from
my{{U}} {{U}} 13 {{/U}} {{/U}}card. Because I owned so many
shares, I{{U}} {{U}} 14 {{/U}} {{/U}}a small fortune, half of it
from money I borrowed from the brokerage company. One month, I am a{{U}}
{{U}} 15 {{/U}} {{/U}}the next, a loser. This one big loss was my
first lesson in the market. My father was a stockbroker, as was
my grand- father{{U}} {{U}} 16 {{/U}} {{/U}}him. (In fact, he
founded one of Chicago's earliest brokerage firms. ) But like so many things in
life, we don't learn anything until we{{U}} {{U}} 17 {{/U}}
{{/U}}it for ourselves. The only way to really understand the inner{{U}}
{{U}} 18 {{/U}} {{/U}}of the stock market is to invest your own
hardeamed money. When all your stocks are doing{{U}} {{U}} 19
{{/U}} {{/U}}and you feel like a winner, you learn very little. It's when all
are losing and everyone is questioning your stock picking{{U}} {{U}}
20 {{/U}} {{/U}}that you find out if you have what it takes to invest in
the market.
【答案解析】名词搭配题。句意为：了解股票市场内部运作情况的唯一方法就是把你自己的血汗钱投进去。The inner working of the stock market是股票市场的内部运作情况。选项[B)意思是“习俗，惯例”，对某种惯用做法或态度的一致同意或接受认可；选项[C]表示“设备，工具”；选项[D]表示“结构，构造”。