In 1998, consumers could purchase
virtually anything over the Internet. Books, compact discs, and even stocks were
available from World Wide Web sites that seemed to spring up almost daily. A few
years earlier, some people had predicted that consumers accustomed to shopping
in stores would be reluctant to buy things that they could not see or touch in
person. For a growing number of time-starved consumers, however, shopping from
their home computer was proved to be a convenient alternative to driving to the
store.
A research estimated that in 1998 US consumers would
purchase $ 7.3 billion of goods over the Internet, double the 1997 total.
Finding a bargain was getting easier owing to the rise of online auctions and
Web sites that did comparison shopping on the Internet for the best
deal.
For all the consumer interest, reta
A. there were more and more Internet users
B. there were more and more online auctions
C. the consumers had more money to spend
D. there were more goods available on the Internet
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Could the bad old days of economic decline be about to return Since OPEC agreed to supply-cuts in March, the price of crude oil has jumped to almost $ 26 a barrel, up from less than $10 last December. This near-tripling of oil prices calls up scary memories of the 1973 oil shock, when prices quadrupled, and 1979 1980, when they also almost tripled. Both previous shocks resulted in double-digit inflation and global economic decline. So where are the headlines warning of gloom and doom this time
The oil price was given another push up this week when Iraq suspended oil exports. Strengthening economic growth, at the same time as winter grips the northern hemisphere, could push the price higher still in the short term.
Yet there are good reasons to expect the economic consequences now to be less severe than in the 1970s. In most countries the cost of crude oil now accounts for a smaller share of the price of petrol than it did in the 1970s.
A. global inflation,
B. reduction in supply.
C. fast growth in economy.
D. Iraq’s suspension of exports.
[单项选择] Passage Three
In 1998, consumers could purchase
virtually anything over the Internet. Books, compact discs, and even stocks were
available from World Wide Web sites that seemed to spring up almost daily. A few
years earlier, some people had predicted that consumers accustomed to shopping
in stores would be reluctant to buy things that they could not see or touch in
person. For a growing number of time-starved consumers, however, shopping from
their home computer was proved to be a convenient alternative to driving to the
store.
A research estimated that in 1998 US consumers would
purchase $ 7.3 billion of goods over the Internet, double the 1997 total.
Finding a bargain was getting easier owing to the rise of online auctions and
Web sites that did comparison shopping on the Internet for the best
deal.
For all the consumer interest, reta
A. Consumers are reluctant to buy things on the Internet.
B. Consumers are too busy to buy things on the Internet.
C. Internet retailing is a profitable business.
D. More and more consumers prefer Internet shopping.
[单项选择] Passage Three
Immigrants are consumers as well as producers, so
they create jobs as well as taking them. And the work they do need not be at the
expense of native workers. Immigrants often hold jobs that natives are unwilling
to accept at any feasible wage.
Also, immigrants sometimes help
to keep industries viable (能存活的) that would otherwise disappear altogether,
causing employment to fall. This was the conclusion of a study of the Los
Angeles garment industry in the 1970s and 1980s. And when immigrants working for
low wages do put downward pressure on natives’ wages, they may raise the (real)
wages of natives in general by keeping prices lower than they otherwise would
be.
In theory, then, the net effect of immigration on native
wages is uncertain. Unfortunately, most of the empirical (经验主义的) research on
whether immigrants make natives
A. they only take jobs created by immigrants
B. they often hold jobs that natives don’t accept
C. they do not put downward pressure on natives’ wages
D. they are unemployed most of the time
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Scraps of food could soon be helping
power your home, thanks to an ultra-cheap bacteria-driven battery. Its
developers hope that instead of feeding the dog or making garden compost(混合肥料)
,organic household waste could top up your home’s electricity.
Although such "microbial fuel cells" (MFCs)have been developed in the
past, they have always proved extremely inefficient and expensive. Now Chris
Melhuish and technologists at the University of the West of England(UWE)in
Bristol have come up with a simplified MFC that costs as little as ￡10 to
make.
Right now, their fuel cell runs only on sugar cubes, since
these produce almost no waste when broken down, but they aim to move on to
carrot power. "It has to be able to use raw materials, rather than giving it a
refined fuel," says Melhuish.
Inside the Walkman-sized battery,
A. Microbial fuel cells.
B. Cost-efficient microbial fuel cells.
C. The efficiency of microbial fuel ceils.
D. Organic battery runs robot.
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A. They are not influenced by the government policy.
B. They are opinions that have no basis in fact.
C. They are affected by the conditions of the time in which they are written.
D. They would be more accurate if historians followed one ideology.
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