题目内容
Maria’s father is very strict with her and won’t allow to fail
A her B him C herself D himself
Robin asked us to share inspiring favorite words that other people had spoken. As I rolled through ideas in my head. My 36 kept relearning to an event from my youth.
The words spoken were not 37 in their delivery .The person who received them wasn’t me. And, the life-changing event 38 to someone else. But I remember it very well. My friend Evonne was a skinny little girl. We weren’t best friends. But we were 39 .We 40 a classroom every year from 2nd through8th grade. Hing school got us into other groups of fellow students and we kept up our friendship 41 .But then the 42 happened during our senior year that changed her life 43
Mrs. Lee was Evonne’s and my senior advisor. I don’t remember one word the woman spoke to me during consulting .However .I do remember what she said to Evonne .On one particular day, Evonne ,the teary-eyed 17-year old girl 44 Mrs. Lee’s office . She cried , “She might as well have told me I was 45 .She told me ‘You are not college material ’ Can you believe she said that?” Evonne 46 Then the still tiny ,but determined young woman made a brave 47 . “I’ll show her ”…and then she 48 !
Evonne’s head 49 . down in her studies the rest of that year. Following graduation she found employment and began 50 her way through coilege .She liaished her 4 years and 51 to graduaie school (研究生院)，Not very years Not very many years later I heard that she had a PHD and became a professor at university in Tennessee 52 words don’t always make someone cleeide to invest （投资） in themselves so wisely.
Whenever I think of the inspiration and motivation that 53 Evonne . I am also 54 that there are many others who are discouraged by the 55 of our words. My story today is in honor of my old friend. Evonne.
36 A opinions | B intentions | C thoughts | D dreams |
37 A accurate | B ridiculous | C moving | D inspiring |
38 A stuck | B ridiculous | C turned | D added |
39 A close | B near | C casual | D unique |
40 A entered | B owned | C spared | D shared |
41 A loosely | B cautiously | C willingly | D totally |
42 A situation | B accident | C condition | D incident |
43 A always | B forever | C temporarily | D totally |
44 A escaped | B locked | C shut | D left |
45 A stupid | B simple | C sensitive | D selfish |
46 A begged | B appealed | C questioned | D commanded |
47 A statement | B comment | C judgment | D arrangement |
48 A nobbed | B tried | C would | D did |
49 A kept | B nosed | C bent | D turned |
50 A changing | B finding | C working | D coming |
51 A wandered | B headed | C immigrated | D rushed |
52 A Encouraging | B Negative | C Appropriate | D Abstract |
53 A persuaded | B proved | C pushed | D created |
54 A told | B informed | C reminded | D advised |
55 A carelessness | B seriousness | C firmness | D vividness |
Supply and demand is perhaps one of the most basic concepts of economics and it is the backbone of a market economy. Demand refers to how much of a product or service is desired by buyers. The quantity demanded is the amount of a product people are willing to buy at a certain price; the relationship between price and quantity demanded is known as the demand relationship. Supply represents how much the market can offer. The quantity supplied refers to the amount of a certain goods producers are willing to supply when receiving a certain price. The relationship between price and how much of a goods or service is supplied to the market is known as the supply relationship. Price, therefore, is a reflection of supply and demand.
The law of demand states that, if all other factors remain equal, the higher the price of a product, the fewer people will demand that product. The amount of goods that buyers purchase at a higher price is less as the price of a product goes up, so does the opportunity cost of buying that product.
Like the law of demand, the law of supply shows the quantities that will be sold at a certain price. But unlike the law of demand, the supply relationship shows an upward slope. This means that the higher the price, the higher the quantity supplied. Producers supply more at a higher price because selling a higher quantity at a higher price increases the whole income.
Now that we know the laws of supply and demand, let’s turn to an example to show how supply and demand affect price.
Imagine that a CD of your favorite band is sold for $20. Because the record company’s previous analysis showed that consumers will not demand CDs at a price higher than $20, only ten CDs were sold because the opportunity cost is too high for suppliers to produce more. If, however, the ten CDs are demanded by 20 people, the price will then rise. As a result, the rise in price should cause more CDs to be supplied as the supply relationship shows that the higher the price, the higher the quantity supplied. If, however, there are 30 CDs produced and demand is still at 20, the price will not be pushed up because the supply is more than the demand.
72. We know from the passage that changes in the prices of product cause changes in ______.
A. income and expense B. invention and production
C. market and society D. supply and demand
73. Look at the following tablet first, if it is up to you to make a decision to sell a widget(装饰品), you should sell it for ______.
Price of Widgets | Number of Widgets People Want to Buy |
$1.00 | 100 |
$2.00 | 90 |
$3.00 | 70 |
$4.00 | 40 |
A. $1 B. $2 C. $3 D. $4
74. The last paragraph is mainly about the importance of ______.
A. a reasonable price B. finding enough producing material
C. finding out what consumers think about D. making out the demand at market
75. The text is written mainly _____.
A. to persuade people to buy more products
B. to let people know more about a CD
C. to explain the relationships between demand, supply and price
D. to tell people how to buy things reasonably