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. 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 your father is a steel worker, a tuck driver, a doctor, or a grocer, he is producing goods or services 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 marketing 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 that that the market doesn't want you to do.
单选题 According to the passage, you are buying from the market if you______ .
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】解析:推理题,文章第三段第二句"You may spend money in stores, …and restaurants,still,you are buying from the market.”本题问到“如果你…,你是在市场上买东西”显然应选【B】,其余选项皆不符合题干"buying from the market"的要求。
单选题 If you are producing for a market, you must .
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】解析:推理题。文章第一段可知道,“如果你在为市场生产商品的话,你必须密切注意市场形势”。
单选题 According to the passage, which of the following is NOT true______
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】解析:细节判断题。【A】项“游客的数量在减少”显然文中没有提及,其余选项皆符合文义。
单选题 In what way is the market very real for any one or business who is making and selling some-thing? ______
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】解析:推理题。从文中可推出,“市场可以清楚地告诉制造商应该生产什么”。
单选题 Which of the following would be the best title for the passage? ______
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】解析:主旨题。总观全文,作者议论的主题是"Market"。