[单项选择]A. People focus more on price rather than quality.
B. People check their budget when they purchase.
C. People like to bargain when they buy things.
D. People tend to walk to the right after entering a shop.

[填空题]It is the interaction between people, rather than the events that occur in their lives that are the main locus of social psychology.

• A. between
• B. rather than
• C. are
• D. of

[填空题]Many people have immigrated to America rather than elsewhere because they think in the United States there is a law to ensure their happiness.

[单项选择]People would rather pay large sums of money than have their life work destroyed by gangsters.
A. 人们将支付一大笔钱而不是让他们毕生的心血被歹徒毁掉。
B. 人们将支付一大笔钱而不是让他们生活的工作被歹徒毁掉。
C. 人们情愿支付一大笔钱，也不愿自己毕生的心血毁于歹徒之手。
D. 人们认为支付一大笔钱比让歹徒毁掉他们一生的工作好。

[简答题]

These days, house price vertigo is more than a local or national condition. It’s a worldwide phenomenon.
(46)The American housing boom in recent years is nothing compared with the price run- up in countries like France, Spain, Britain, Ireland, Sweden and Australia, even though markets in Australia and Britain have cooled in the last year.
Million-dollar two-bedroom apartments are not only a fixture of New York, but of London, Paris and Hong Kong. In New Zealand, housing prices rose by more than 16 percent from 2003 to 2004. In Ireland, they rose more than 10 percent in that period.
The rise in prices is worrisome, because the international housing boom is a byproduct of globalization. A house on a plot of ground is the most local of assets. (47)But the financial markets that make it possible for people to borrow money to buy a house, or speculate, are increasingly open, international and linked.
Interest rate policies in the in