单选题 Directions: After reading the following passage, you will find 5 unfinished statements or questions. For each statement there are four choices marked A, B, C and D, you should make the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.
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're 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 truck 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're 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 in business 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're using energies and resources in doing something that the market doesn't want you to do.

单选题 According to the passage, you are buying from the market if you ______.

A. look after your child
B. dine at a roadside restaurant
C. borrow a book from a library
D. drive to the seaside for a holiday

【正确答案】 B

【答案解析】[解析] 根据第二段第三句和第四句，可知答案为B。“如果你在路边餐馆吃饭，就要从市场中买东西。”

单选题 If you are producing for a market, you must ______.

A. be a manager of a supermarket
B. buy as many tomatoes as you can
C. follow the market situation closely
D. do whatever you want to

【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】[解析] 根据第一段倒数第一句和第二句可知答案为C。“如果你为市场生产东西，你就必须紧跟市场形势。”

单选题 According to the passage, which of the following is NOT true?

A. A waitress produces service for the market.
B. A potato-grower may sell potatoes to his neighbors and local supermarkets.
C. If nobody smokes, all the cigarette factories will be closed.
D. There is cut in the number of visitors.

【正确答案】 D

【答案解析】[解析] 通读全文可知D没有提到。

单选题 In what way is the market very real for any one in business who is making and selling something?

A. It tells him what to produce.
B. It helps him save money.
C. It shows him how to grow tomatoes.
D. It provides him daily necessities.

【正确答案】 A

【答案解析】[解析] 根据最后一段可知答案为A。“对于任何制造和销售的商人，从哪方面来说，市场又是真实的?”“市场告诉他们要生产什么。”

单选题 Which of the following would be the best title for the passage?

A. Tomato Market.
B. Market Information.
C. Selling and Buying.
D. What is the Market?.

【正确答案】 D

【答案解析】[解析] 作为文章题目，D“什么是市场?”最符合。