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Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehension(35 minutes) Passage OneQuestions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage: The American economic system is organize around a basically private enterprise, market oriented economy in which consumers largely determine what shall be produced by spending their money in the marketplace for those goods and services that they want most. Private businessmen, striving to make profits, produce these goods and services in competition with others businessmen; , operating under competitive pressures. Largely determines how these goods and services are produced. Thus, in the American economic system it is the demand of individual consumers, coupled with the desire of businessmen to maximize profits and the desire of individuals to , that together determine what shall be produced and how resources are used to produce it. An important factor of a market oriented economy is the mechanism by which consumer demands can be expressed and responded to buy producers. In the American economy, this mechanism is provided by a price system, a process in which prices rise and fall producers, which in turn will lower the price and permit more consumers to buy the product. Thus, price is the regulating mechanism in the American economic system. The important factor in a private enterprise economy is that individuals are allowed to own productive resources (private property), and they are permitted to hire labor, gain control over natural resources, and produce goods and services for sale at a profit. In the American economy, the concept of private property embraces not only the ownership of productive resources but also certain rights, including the fight to determine the price of a product or to make a free contract with another private individual.
22.The first two sentences in the second paragraph tell us that____. 23.According to the passage, a private enterprise economy is characterized by ____. 24.The passage is mainly about ____. 25.The word “embrace”(Sent. 2, Para. 3) may convey the meaning of ____. 内容概要:本文主要讲美国的经济体制是怎样依靠私有企业来运转,又是如何通过供求关系来调控市场价格和产品的生产的。 21.【答案】D。 22.【答案】D。 23.【答案】A。 24.【答案】C。 25.【答案】B。 |