Home economists recommend buying basic food items in large quantities.A.storesB.amountsC.b
Home economists recommend buying basic food items in large quantities.
A.stores
B.amounts
C.bags
D.boxes
Home economists recommend buying basic food items in large quantities.
A.stores
B.amounts
C.bags
D.boxes
A、Need to keep money at home
B、Encouragement of capital accumulation
C、Protection of an infant industry
D、Conservation of natural resources
Most economists predict that
A.there will be a recovery in economy all over Europe from about the middle of next year.
B.there will be a worse situation of economy in Europe in the following three months.
C.customers in Europe will stay at home and spend less money by the middle of next year.
We are considering ___ the production process
A.recognize
B.recognized
C.recognizing
D.to recognize
On a(n)【4】basis, prices were 5.3% lower in November than in November 2008. Prices were the same as in late 2003. "What we've seen【5】the past couple of months is that the pace of【6】has fallen down," says Maureen Maitland of Standard & Poor's. "Some markets have【7】Is that because we haven't【8】the foreclosure (回赎权的取消) cycle? Because of unemployment? We're not seeing the【9】we were seeing in the last summer months. "
Metro areas that have seen a retreat in home prices【10】Seattle, Charlotte, Las Vegas and Tampa. All four【11】gains they made in recent months【12】.【13】, for the 20-metro index, the annual rate of decline is improving. That【14】, with other recent housing reports that show prices【15】or accelerating, could point to【16】the housing market is starting to【17】its footing, some economists say. Existing home sale prices were $178 300 in December, which is 1.5% higher than December 2008, according to a report this week by the National Association of Realtors. That was the first year-over-year【18】in median price since August 2007.
"The most【19】thing we can say is not only the market is stabilizing, but we've seen that housing demand is strong," says Bernard Baumohl, with the Economic Outlook Group. "Housing probably will continue to climb upwards through the summer,【20】it could slip a little as the tax credit expires. "
(1)
A.leading
B.declining
C.holding
D.improving
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the Nobel Prize in economics to three Americans,Eugene Fama,Lars Peter Hansen and Robert Shiller on Oct.14,2013.Eugene Fama and Lars Peter Hansen are both professors at the University of Chicago.Robert Shiller is a professor at Yale University.They will share the prize worth about 1.2 million dollars.
"This year's prize in economic sciences is about predictions." All three of this year's prize winners are mainly known for their research and explanations of pricing forces in financial markets.They have had a big influence on the way people look at and talk about financial markets.
Eugene Fama's research on financial markets in the 1960s led market watchers to change their ideas about investing.His ideas are linked to the theory that markets are efficient,which means market actors taking all available information to create the correct price for things at any given time.This also means that over short periods of time,it is not possible to predict prices.
Robert Shiller found,however,that over long periods,the opposite is true.It is possible to predict the movement of prices and that price changes are linked to human behavior.
The findings of both economists have led to the growth of index funds,investing many different securities as a way to reduce risk.Mr Shiller also helped to create the Standard & Poor's Case-Shiller home prices index.That index follows home prices across the United States.
Lars Peter Hansen developed a method for studying historical pricing information.His method supports Mr Shiller's findings and has influenced efforts to predict prices in the financial industry.
The Nobel Prize in economics was not created by Alfred Nobel,but was established in his memory by Sweden's central bank in 1968.
1.The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the Nobel Prize in electronics to three Americans on Oct.14,2013.
2.Eugene Fama,Lars Peter Hansen and Robert Shiller won the prize for their research and explanations of pricing forces in financial markets.
3.Eugene Fama's research on financial markets in the 1960s resulted in some change in how market watchers look at investing.
4.The findings of both economists have led to the growth of price prediction,investing many different securities as a way to reduce risk.
5.The Nobel Prize in economics was established in memory of Alfred Nobel by Sweden's central bank in 1968.
Educating girls quite possibly yields a higher rate of return than any other investment available in the developing world .women’s education may be unusual territory for economists ,but enhancing women’s contribution to development is actually as much an economic as a social issue .and economics ,with its emphasis on incentives ,provides guideposts that point to an explanation for why so many girls are deprived of an education Parents in low-income countries fail to invest in their daughters because they do not expert themto make an economic contribution to he family :girls grow up only to marry into somebody else’s family and bear children .Girls are thus seen as less valuable than boys and kept at home to do housework while their brothers are sent to school-the prophecy becomes self-fulfilling ,trapping women in a vicious circle of neglect.
An educated mother ,on the other hand ,has greater earning abilities outside the home and facesan entirely different set of choices. She is likely to have fewer but healthier children and can insiston the development of all her children ,ensuring that her daughters are given a fair chance .Theeducation of her daughters then makes it much more likely that the next generation of girls ,as well as of boys ,will be education and healthy . The vicious circle is thus transformed into a virtuous circle. Few will dispute that education women has great social benefits.But it has enormous economicadvantages as well .Most obviously ,there is the direct effect of education on the wages of femaleworkers.Wages rise by 10 to 20 percent for each additional year of schooling. Such big returns areimpressive by the standard of other available investments ,but they are just thebeginning .Education women also has a significant impact on health practices,including family planning.
The author argues that educating girls in developing countries is ()
A.troublesome
B.labor –saving
C.rewarding
D.expensive
By saying“…the prophecy becomes self –fulfilling…”(Lines45,para.2).the author means that ()A.girls will turn out to be less valuable than boys
B.girls will be capable of realizing their own dreams
C.girls will eventually find their goals in life beyond reach
D.girls will be increasingly discontented with their life at home
The author believes that a vicious circle can turn into a virtuous circle when ()A.women care more about education
B.girls can gain equal access to education
C.a family has fewer but healthier children
D.parents can afford their daughters’education
What does the author say about women’s education?
A.It deserves greater attention than other social issues
B.It is now given top priority in many developing countries
C.It will yield greater returns than other known investments
D.It has aroused the interest of a growing number of economists
The passage mainly discusses ()A.unequal treatment of boys and girls in developing countries
B.the potential earning power of well –educated women
C.the major contributions of educated women to society
D.the economic and social benefits of educating women
Section B
Directions: There are 2 passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. You should decide on the best choice.
Most economists believe that advertising has a positive impact on the economy because it stimulates demand for products and services, strengthening the economy by promoting the sale of goods and services. Manufacturers know that advertising can help sell a new product quickly, enabling them to recover the costs of developing new products. By stimulating the development of new products, advertising helps increase competition. Many economists believe that increased competition leads to lower prices, thereby benefiting consumers and the economy as a whole. These economists also argue that by interesting consumers in purchasing goods, advertising enables manufacturers and others to sell their products in larger quantities.
Other economists, however, believe that advertising is wasteful. They argue that the cost of advertising adds to the cost of goods and that most advertising simply encourages consumers to buy one brand rather than another. According to this view, advertising, simply moves sales from one company to another, rather than increasing sales overall and thereby benefiting the economy as a whole. Advertising
can have wide-ranging repercussions (反响) on a society. Some critics suggest that advertising promotes a materialistic way of life by leading people to believe that happiness is achieved by purchasing products. They argue that advertising creates a consumer culture in which buying exciting new products becomes the foundation of file society's values, pleasures, and goals.
Other critics express concern over the way advertising has affected women and racial minority groups. Ads in the 1950s depicted women primarily as decoration or sex objects. Although millions of women worked outside the home in the 1960s, ads continued to focus on their role as homemakers. Whether owing to the feminist movement or to women's increasing economic power, after the 1960s it became more common to see women depicted in professional roles. The way advertising has depicted racial minorities has also been harmful. Due to the influence of the civil rights movement, however, advertisers by the 19g0s had begun to depict African Americans as students, professionals, or business people. However, many African American organizations and community activists continue to object to the way that alcohol and tobacco companies have seemingly targeted low-income minority communities with a heavy preponderance (优势) of outdoor advertising for their products.
Which of the following is the best title of the passage?
A.Advertising.
B.The Impact of Advertising.
C.Different Views of Advertising.
D.The Advantage and Disadvantage of Advertising,
There were, however, differences in pay scales that cannot be explained by the human capitaltheory. For example, male construction workers were paid significantly higher wage than femaletaffeta weavers. The wage difference between these two low-skill occupations stems from thesegregation of labor by gender: because a limited number of occupations were open to women,there was a large supply of workers in their fields, and this “overcrowding” resulted in womenreceiving lower wages and men receiving higher wages.
The passage suggests that combing and carding differ from weaving in that combing and carding are______
A.low-skill jobs performed by primarily by women employees
B.low-skill jobs that were not perfomed in the home
C.low-skill jobs performed by both male and female employees
D.high-skill jobs performed outside the home
E.high-skill jobs performed by both male and female employees
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