阅读理解。
The market is a concept (概念). If you are growing tomatoes in your backyard for sale you are producing
for the market. You might sell some to your neighbors and some to the local managers of the supermarket. But
in either case, you are producing for the market. Your efforts are being directed by the market. 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.
When you spend your income, you are buying things from the market. You may spend money in stores,
supermarkets, gas station 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.
The market may be something abstract (抽象的). But for each person or business that is making and selling
something, it is very concrete. If nobody buys your tomatoes, it won't be long before you get the message.
The market is telling you something. It is telling you that you are using energies and resources in doing
something the market doesn't want you to do.
1. Which of the following would be the best title of the passage? [ ]
A. Selling and Buying.
B. Everything you do is producing for the market.
C. What is the market?
D. What the market can do for you.
2. All of the following acts are producing for the market except _____. [ ]
A. working in a bank
B. attending a night school
C. printing a book
D. growing beans for sale
3. You are buying from the market when you _____. [ ]
A. borrow a book from the library
B. drive to the seaside for a holiday
C. look after your children
D. dine at restaurant
4. The word "concrete" in the last paragraph may most probably mean _____. [ ]
A. serious
B. important
C. necessary
D. real
5. In what way is the market very concrete for each person or business who is making and selling something? [ ]
A. It tells you what to produce
B. It provides you with everything you need
C. It tells you how to grow tomatoes
D. It helps you save money
