[单项选择]A fundamental premise of a free-enterprise economic system is that all small businesses face difficult competition.


A. confront
B. mock
C. lose
D. appreciate

[单项选择]Mass transportation revised the social and economic, fabric of the American city in many ways so as to permit an easy row of traffic.
A. texture
B. textile
C. network
D. structure

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There are various ways in which individual economic units can interact with one another. Three basic ways may be described as the market system, the administered system and the traditional sys tem.
In a market system individual economic units are free to interact among each other in the market place. It is possible to buy commodities from other economic units or sell commodities to them. In a market, transactions may take place via barter or money exchange. In a barter economy, real goods such as automobiles, shoes, and pizzas are traded against each other. Obviously, finding somebody who wants to trade my old car in exchange for a sailboat may not always be an easy task. Hence, the introduction of money as a medium of exchange eases transactions considerably. In the modern mar ket economy, goods and services are bought or sold for money.
An alternative to the market system is administrative control by some agency over all transactions. This agency will issue edic
A. rapid speed of transactions
B. misunderstandings
C. inflation
D. difficulties for the traders

[单项选择] What unemployment is formed because of the economic recession （　） 　
A. friction unemployment
B. structural unemployment
C. cyclical unemployment
D. natural unemployment

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Lower taxes would spur investment and help economic growth．（）

A. spend
B. require
C. encourage
D. attract

[单项选择]Little progress can be made in the present economic ________ in this underdeveloped country.
A. mood
B. air
C. climate
D. fashion

[单项选择]There had seemed no any of tiding over the economic crisis into which we were now __________.
A. inserted
B. plunged
C. pitched
D. imposed

[单项选择]New problems are likely to ______ when the economic develops rapidly.
A. rise
B. raise
C. arise
D. arouse