Choose the best from the following sentences marked A to E to complete the article below.
Most economists in the United States seem captivated by the spell of the free market. (16) . A price that is determined by the seller or, for that matter, established by anyone other than the aggregate of consumers seems pernicious. (17) In fact, price-fixing is normal in all industrialized societies because the industrial system itself provides, as an effortless consequence of its own development, the price-fixing that it requires. Modern industrial planning requires and rewards great size. Hence, a comparatively small number of large firms will be competing for the same group of consumers. That each large firm will act with consideration of its own needs and thus avoid selling its products for more than its competitors charge is commonly recognized by advocates of free-market economic theorie
A. But each large firm will also act with full consideration of the needs that it has in common with the other large firms competing for the same customers
B. Consequently, nothing seems good or normal that does not accord with the requirements of the free market
C. Economists in the United States have hailed the change as a return to the free market. But Soviet firms are no more subject to prices established by a free market over which they exercise little influence than are capitalist firms
D. Accordingly, it requires a major act of will to think of price-fixing (the determination of prices by the seller) as both "normal" and having a valuable economic function
E. Were there something peculiarly efficient about the free market and inefficient about price-fixing-O
| At its best, any prison is so unnatural
a form of segregation from normal life that-- like too-loving parents and too
zealous religion and all other well-meant violations of individuality-it helps
to prevent the vicitims from resuming when they are let out, any natural role in
human society. At its worst, the prison is almost scientifically designed to
develop by force--ripening every one of the antisocial traits for which we
suppose ourselves to put people into prison (I say "suppose", because actually
we put people into prison only because we don’t know what else to do with them).
The prison makes the man who is sexually abnormal, sexually a maniac. The prison
makes the man who enjoyed beating fellow drunks in a bar-room come out wanting
to kill a policeman. Probably we cannot tomorrow turn all the so-called criminals loose a A. makes people incapable of living independently B. doesn’t train people for useful work C. is too kind for people to live freely D. is too strict for people to live freely [简答题]
A number of foreign words still look like foreign words; these are often expressions which were originally used by people who wanted to sound particularly well educated. (61) It was the desire to be scholarly that brought about a wave of Latin terms which appeared in the 16th century when the Humanist movement brought new impetus to learning throughout Europe. Abbreviations such as e.g. (from the Latin meaning a voluntary example); PS (meaning "added after the letter has been written); a.m. and p.m. (meaning "before noon" and "after noon") came into the language at this time. 62) Nowadays they are so common that most people don’t even know what the letters actually stand for, and there’s certainly nothing learned about using them today! [单项选择]Which of the following words best describes Mrs Edwards’ feeling at the end of this story
A. Embarrassed. B. Disappointed. C. Delighted. D. Proud. [单项选择]Which of the following words best describes the relationship between park officials and neighboring landowners
a. Indifferent.
b. Intimate.
c. Cooperative.
d. Disappointing.
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A (51) of foreign words still look like
foreign words; there are often expressions which
(52) originally used by people who wanted to sound particularly well-educated. It was the desire to be scholarly that brought (53) a wave of Latin terms which appeared in the 16th century (54) the Humanist movement brought new impetus to learning throughout Europe. (55) such as, e. g. (from the Latin meaning a voluntary example); PS (meaning" added after the latter has been written" ); a.m. and (56) ( meaning "before noon" and" after noon" ) came into the language at this time. Nowadays they are (57) common that most people don’t even know (58) the letters actually stand for and there’s certainly nothing learned about using them today ! In addition to the words brought to English (59) foreigners, there are plenty of words which the British have collected from the countries they have settled 我来回答: 提交
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