题目

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根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
小题1:     If you are growing tomatoes in your backyard for sale you are producing for the market. You might sell some to your neighbor and some to the local manager of the supermarket. But in either case, you are producing for the market.小题2:     If people stop buying tomatoes, you will stop producing them.
If you take care of a sick person to earn money, you are producing for the market. If your father is a steel worker or a truck driver or a doctor or a grocer, he is producing goods or service for the market.
小题3:     You may spend money in stores, supermarkets, gas stations and restaurants. Still you are buying from the market. When the local grocer hires you to drive the delivery truck, he is buying your labor in the labor market.
小题4:     But for each person or business that is making and selling something, it is very concrete(具体的). If nobody buys your tomatoes, it won’t be long before you get the message. 小题5:   _____ It is telling you that you are using energies and resources in doing something the market doesn’t want you to do.

A．The market may be something abstract.

B．The sellers are always smarter than buyers.

C．When you spend your income, you are buying things from the market.

D．The market is a concept.

E. One has to make his ends meet when shopping.
F. The market is telling you something.
G. Your efforts are being directed by the market.

答案

小题1:D
小题2:G
小题3:C
小题4:A
小题5:F

解析

试题分析：本文是一篇议论文。文章用通俗的例子，讲述了市场的概念。
小题1:考查学生对文章的理解和主题句的选择。根据后文可知，文章用种西红柿做例子，讲述市场的概念。故选D。
小题2:考查上下文的语境理解。上文提到你在为市场生产，下文是：如果人们不买你的西红柿，你就会停止种植。所以，中间句应该是：你的想法受市场的指导。故选G。
小题3:考查上下文的语境理解。根据下文You may spend money in stores, supermarkets, gas stations and restaurants. Still you are buying from the market.可知选C。
小题4:考查上下文的语境理解。根据下文的对应词concrete(具体的)可知，这里和选项中的abstract.
相对，故选A。
小题5:考查上下文的语境理解。根据下文中的It is telling you that you are using energies and resources in doing something the market doesn’t want you to do.可知选F。