There are many problems in our modern world. One very serious problem is energy. We get a great 【71】 of energy we need from coal, gas, and oil. However, the 【72】 of energy which we use is 【73】 every year, and we only have enough coal, gas, and oil for the next twenty or thirty years. How will we live 【74】 the energy which these things give us？ Scientists are looking for 【75】 to this problem. They are looking for new 【76】 to produce energy. For example, they are working with new ways 【77】 energy

第1题

Large companies need a way to reach the savings of the public at large. The （1)_____ probl

Large companies need a way to reach the savings of the public at large. The (1)_____ problem, or a small scale, faces (2)_____ every company trying to develop new products and create new jobs. There can be little prospect of (3)_____ the sums needed from friends and people we know. And (4)_____ banks may agree to provide short-term finance. They are generally unwilling to provide money on a (5)_____ basis for long-term (6)_____. So companies (7)_____ the public, inviting people to lend them money, or take a share in future profits. This they do by (8)_____ stocks and shares of their business in a stock (9)_____. By doing so they can (10)_____ and use the savings of individuals and institutions, both at home and overseas, when the inventor needs his money back, he does not have to go the company with whom he (11)_____ placed it. (12)_____, he sells his shares through a (13)_____ to some other person who is seeking to invest his money, many of the services needed (14)_____ by industry and by each of us are provided by the government or by local (15)_____ Without hospitals, roads, electricity, telephones, railways, etc, this country could not (16)_____. All these require continuous spending on new equipment and new development if they are to serve us properly, requiring more money that is raised through taxes alone. The government, local authorities, and nationalized industries (17)_____ frequently need to borrow money to (18)_____ major capital spending, and they, too, come to a stock exchange.

There is hardly a man or woman in this country (19)_____ job and standard of living does not depend on the ability of his or her employers to raise money to finance new development. In one way or another this new money must come from the investment funds of the country. Stock exchanges exist to provide a (20)_____ through which these funds can reach those who need financing.

A．identical

B．equivalent

C．alike

D．same

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第2题

Computers can be used ______.A．for entertainment and relaxationB．to work out complex probl

Computers can be used ______.

A．for entertainment and relaxation

B．to work out complex problems

C．to do any of the ten things mentioned in the reading

D．to keep track of expenses and turn appliances on and off

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第3题

At the end of the passage the author implies that ______.A．naturally, the population probl

At the end of the passage the author implies that ______.

A．naturally, the population problem would be solved

B．nature will punish us in the end if we do nothing

C．we can wait until nature solves the problem for us

D．we can't imagine how much we'll have to pay to solve the world population problem

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第4题

Many buildings ______ by the earthquake. （destroy)

Many buildings ______ by the earthquake. (destroy)

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第5题

A. little B. few C. much D. many

A.little

B. few

C. much

D. many

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第6题

Many people like the color white as it is a ______ of purity.A．symbolB．signC．signalD．sympt

Many people like the color white as it is a ______ of purity.

A．symbol

B．sign

C．signal

D．symptom

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第7题

A．lessB．moreC．decreasingD．many

A.less

B.more

C.decreasing

D.many

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