Question

【题目】根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。

【1】 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 local manager of the supermarket. But in either case, you are producing for the market. 【2】 If people stop buying tomatoes, you will stop producing them.

If you take care of a sick person to earn money, you are producing for the market. If your father is a steel worker or a truck driver or a doctor or a grocer, he is producing goods or service for the market.

【3】 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.

【4】 But for each person or business that is making and selling something, it is very concrete. If nobody buys your tomatoes, it won't be long before you get the message. ___【5】__It is telling you that you are using energies and resources in doing something the market doesn't want you to do.

A. The market may be something abstract.

B. The sellers are always smarter than buyers.

C. When you spend your income, you are buying things from the market.

D. The market is a concept.

E. One has to make his ends meet when shopping.

F. The market is telling you something.

G. Your efforts are being directed by the market.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】D

【2】G

【3】C

【4】A

【5】F

【解析】

试题分析：本文是一篇议论文。文章用通俗的例子，讲述了市场的概念。

【1】D考查学生对文章的理解和主题句的选择。根据后文可知，文章用作西红柿做例子，讲述了市场的概念。故选D。

【2】G考查上下文的语境理解。上文提到你在为市场生产，下文是：如果人们不买你的西红柿，你将停止种植它们。可知空格处应该是：你的想法受市场的指导。故选G。

【3】C考查上下文的语境理解。根据下文You may spend money in stores, supermarkets, gas stations and restaurants. 你可以在商店、超市、加油站和餐馆里花钱。Still you are buying from the market. 你仍然在市场上购买。可知C项符合题意。

【4】A考查上下文的语境理解。根据下文的对应词concrete（具体的）可知，这里和选项中的abstract相对应。故选A。

【5】F考查上下文的语境理解。根据下文中的It is telling you that you are using energies and resources in doing something the market doesn't want you to do. 它告诉你，你正在使用能源和资源做一些市场上不让你做的事情。可知上句的意思是：市场上告诉你做什么。故选F。

【学法指导】

做七选五时，首先要了解七个选项的内容，然后再看文章。当看到空格处时一定要把空格上下文中的关键词和选项中的次进行比较观察，这会事半功倍，快速地找到正确答案。39小题A考查上下文的语境理解。根据下文的对应词concrete（具体的）可知，这里和选项中的abstract相对应。故选A。