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Millions of Americans run to the bank or visit automated teller machines when they need cash. They use credit cards when they want to buy clothes, VCRs, or television sets.
But there is an underclass — people with low incomes and no credit history — who visit their neighborhood pawnshops when they need cash or a loan.
An estimated 20 percent of the US population has no bank account, more than half of this group don’t have credit cards and cannot get bank loans.
"These people are borrowing an average of $50," said John P. Caskey of Swarthmore College in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. "If you add up in terms of how much dollar value pawnshops provide, they don’t look very important. If you add up how much of the population they serve or the number of loans they make, they are important."
Because they make loans, pawnshops are a type of bank, often calling themselves "the bank of the little people".
A. roughly 20 percent.
B. more than 10 percent.
C. less than 10 percent.
D. not mentioned in the passage.

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Millions of Americans run to the bank or visit automated teller machines when they need cash. They use credit cards when they want to buy clothes, VCRs, or television sets.
But there is an underclass — people with low incomes and no credit history — who visit their neighborhood pawnshops when they need cash or a loan.
An estimated 20 percent of the US population has no bank account, more than half of this group don’t have credit cards and cannot get bank loans.
"These people are borrowing an average of $50," said John P. Caskey of Swarthmore College in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. "If you add up in terms of how much dollar value pawnshops provide, they don’t look very important. If you add up how much of the population they serve or the number of loans they make, they are important."
Because they make loans, pawnshops are a type of bank, often calling themselves "the bank of the little people".
A. Credit Cards for the Poor.
B. Banks for the Poor.
C. Pawnshops Vs, Banks.
D. Commercial Banks.

[单项选择]Millions of Americans flock to their drugstores to buy vitamins and minerals, ______ that these pills can help prevent serious illnesses.
A. convincing
B. convinced
C. to convince
D. to be convinced

[单项选择]Millions of Americans and foreigners see GI.Joe as a mindless war toy, the symbol of American military adventurism, but that’ s not how it used to be. To the men and women who 1 in World War I1 and the people they liberated, the GI. was the 2 man grown into hero, the pool farm kid torn away from his home, the guy who 3 all the burdens of battle, who slept in cold foxholes, who went without the 4 of 1hod and shelter, who stuck it out and drove back the Nazi reign of murder. This was not a vohmteer soldier, not someone well paid, 5 an average guy, up 6 the best trained, best equipped, fiercest, most brutal enemies seen in centuries.
His name is not much. GI. is just a military abbreviation 7 Govermnent Issue, and it was on all of the article 8 to soldiers. And Joe A common name for a guy who never 9 it to the top. Joe Blow, Joe Magrae... a working class name.The United States has 10 had a president or vieepresident or secretary of state Joe.
GI. Joe had a 11 career fighting Geman, Japanese, and Korean troops. He appears as a character, or a 12 of American personalities, in the 1945 movie The Story of GL Joe, based on the last days of war correspondent Ernie Pyle. Some of the soldiers Pyle 13 portrayde themselves in the fihn. Pyle was famous for covering the 14 side of the warl, writing about the dirt-snow-and-mud soldiers, not how many miles were 15 or what towns were captured or liberated. His reports 16 the "willie" cartoons of famed Stars and Stripes artist Bill Maulden. Both men 17 the dirt and exhaustion of war, the 18 of civilization that the soldiers shared with each other and the civilians: coffee, tobacco, whiskey, shelter, sleep. 19 Egypt, France, and a dozen more countries, G. I. Joe was any American soldier, 20 the most important person in their lives.
A. for
B. into
C. form
D. against