Many people invest in the stock market hoping to find the next Microsoft and Dell. However, I know from personal experience how difficult this really is. For more than a year, I was【C1】______ hundreds and sometimes thousands of dollars a day investing in the market. It seemed so easy, I dreamed of quitting my job at the end of the year, of buying a small apartment in Paris, of traveling around the world. But these dreams【C2】______ to a sudden and dramatic end when a stock I【C3】______ , Texas cellular phone wholesaler, fell by more than 75 percent【C4】______ a one-year period. On the【C5】______ day, it plunged by more than $ 15 a share. There was a rumor the company was exaggerating sales figures. That was when I learned how quickly Wall Street【C6】______ companies that misrepresent the【C7】______ . In a【C8】______ , I sold all my stock in the company, paying【C9】______ margin debt with cash advances from my credit card. Because I owned so many shares, I【C10】______ a small fortune, half of it from money I borrowed from the brokerage company. One month, I am a winner, the next, a loser. This one big loss was my first lesson in the market.
单选题
【C1】
【正确答案】
B
【答案解析】解析：此处意为“每天花数百有时甚至上千美元投资于证券市场”。spend money (in)doing sth．意为“花钱做某事”。用make的话，构成make dollars“赚钱”，表达的意思就成了“靠投资于证券市场每天赚数百甚至上千美元”，意思也可以。但结构不对，后面应是by investing in the market，in不能省掉。因此B项正确。