| Large companies need a way to reach the savings of
the public at large. The same problem, on a smaller scale, faces practically
every company trying to develop new products and create new jobs. There can be
little prospect of raising the sort of sum needed from friends and people we
know. and while banks may agree to provide short-term finance, they are
generally unwilling to provide money on a permanent basis for long-term
projects. So companies turn to the public, inviting people to lend them money,
or take a share in the business in exchange for a share in future profits.
This they do by issuing stocks and shares in the business through the
Stock Exchange. By doing so they can put into circulation the savings of
individuals and institution, both at home and overseas. When the saver needs his money back, he does not have to go A. borrow large sums of money from friends and people they know B. rely on their own financial resources C. depend on the population as a whole for finance D. persuade the banks to provide them with long-term finance [单项选择]Passage Two
A. They realized some companies exploited the movement. B. They didn’t know what to do. C. They didn’t realize some companies made false claims. D. They didn’t like green advertisement. [填空题]According to the passage, US companies may reluctant to answer the questions of profit - making directly.
[单项选择] The Gene Industry
Major companies are already in pursuit of commercial applications of the new biology. They dream of placing enzymes in the automobile to monitor exhaust and send data on pollution to a microprocessor that will then adjust the engine. They speak of what the New York Times calls "metal—hungry microbes that might be used to mine valuable trace metals from ocean water". They have already demanded and won the right to patent new lifeforms.
Nervous critics, including many scientists, worry that there is corporate, national, international, and inter-scientific rivalry in the entire biotechnological field. They create images not of oil spills, but of "microbe spills" that could spread disease and destroy entire populations. The creation and accidental release of extremely poisonous microbes, however, is only one cause for alarm. Completely rational and respectable scientists are talking about possibilities that stagger the imagination
A. changed the pilots biologically to win the war. B. develop genetic farming for food supply. C. kill the people he thought of as inferior. D. encourage the development of genetic weapons for the war. 我来回答: 提交
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