复合题

The relationship between the home and market economies has gone through two distinct stages. Early industrialization began the process of transferring some production processes (e.g., cloth making, sewing and canning foods) from the home to the market place. Although the home economy could still produce these goods, the processes were laborious and the market economy was usually more efficient. Soon, the more important second stage was evident—the marketplace began producing goods and services that had never been produced by the home economy, and the home economy was unable to produce them (e.g., electricity and electrical appliances, the automobile, advanced education, sophisticated medical care). In the second stage, the question of whether the home economy was less efficient in producing these new goods and services was irrelevant; if the family were to enjoy these fruits of industrialization, they would have to be obtained in the marketplace. The traditional ways of taking care of these needs in the home, such as in nursing the sick, became socially unacceptable (and, in most serious cases, probably less successful).

Just as the appearance of the automobile made the use of the ‘horse-drawn carriage illegal and then impractical, and the appearance of television changed the radio from a source of entertainment to a source of background music, so most of the fruits of economic growth did not increase the options available to the home economy to either produce the goods or services or purchase them in the market. Growth brought with it increased variety in consumer goods, but not increased flexibility for the home economy in obtaining these goods and services. Instead, economic growth brought with it increased consumer reliance on the marketplace. In order to consume these new goods and services, the family had to enter the marketplace as wage earners and consumers. The neoclassical model that views the family as deciding whether to produce goods and services directly or to purchase them in the marketplace is basically a model of the first stage. It cannot accurately be applied to the second stage. 

单选题 The reason why many production processes were taken by the marketplace was that ______.
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】根据第一段第三句“Although the home economy…market economy was usually more efficient.”可知， 市场经济通常更有效率， 因此D项正确。
单选题 It can be seen form the passage that in the second stage ______.
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】从文章第四句“the more important second stage was evident—the marketplace began producing goods and services…”可知， 市场经济提供了家庭作坊经济从不生产的食品和服务， 因此B项正确。
单选题 During the second stage, if the family wanted to consume new goods and services, they had to enter the marketplace ______.
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】文章最后一段提到“In order to consume these new goods and services, the family had to enter the marketplace as wage earners and consumers.”， 其中的wage earners即workers，consumers就是purchaser， 因此C项正确。
单选题 Economic growth did not make it more flexible for the home economy to obtain the new goods and services because ______.
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】由第二段中“most of the fruits of economic growth did not increase the options available to the home economy…”可知， 经济增长的大多数成果都不会增加家庭经济的选择， 因此C项正确。
单选题 The neoclassical model is basically a model of the first stage, because at this stage ______.
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】本文最后讲到“The neoclassical model that views the family as deciding whether to produce goods and services directly or to purchase them in the marketplace…”， 即新古典模型中，家庭可以决定要自己生产还是到市场上购买产品， 也就是说家庭既可以依靠家庭经济， 也可以依靠市场来满足需求。