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A bicycle today, generally speaking,
A．requires more work and sweat because fewer people work to produce it.
B．is comparatively less in real price than a bicycle in the nineteenth century.
C．needs to be considered in terms of "nominal" costs.
D．is cheaper in America than any other western country.
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W: Oh, I bent the wheel yesterday, so I had to take it to the shop.
Q: What does the woman mean？
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A．The bicycle is being repaired.
B．The bicycle is new.
C．She lent the bicycle to a friend.
D．The bicycle is parked outside.
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(2)
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B．$60.
C．$89.
D．$90.
听力原文：W: Bill, I think I'd ride my bike to school today; do you want to go with me？
M: Sure, the exercise will do me good.
Q: What does the man mean？
(18)
A．He'll teach the woman how to ride a bicycle.
B．He'll take his bicycle to school too.
C．He'll join her at her exercise class.
D．He'll take his car and give the woman a ride.
M: Good morning, everyone.
W: Robin, can you tell us what the mountain lake cycle tour is all about？
M: Well, Ann, the tour today is not a race. People do it for fitness and fun andtry to better their time every year.
W: How long will it take to cycle one way, Robin？
M: About seven to nine hours for the average cyclists. Good cyclists can do it in four hours.
W: How many people will be taking part this year？
M: This is our biggest year ever. We have twelve hundred cyclists registered.
W: I doubt they'll block the road when the cyclists start out？
M: Don't worry, we've introduced the staggered starts to avoid these problems. Our first group will leave Ottawa at seven o'clock.
W: Thank you, Robin. Now down to the starting line of the university.
Where does this interview take place？
A．In the radio studio.
B．In the bicycle shop.
C．On the road.
M: Good morning, everyone.
W: Robin, can you tell us what the mountain lake cycle tour is all about？
M: Well, Ann, die tour today is not a race. People do it for fitness and fun and try to better their time every year.
W: How long will it take to cycle one way, Robin？
M: About seven to nine hours for the average cyclists. Good cyclists can do it in four hours.
W: How many people will be taking part this year？
M: This is our biggest year ever. We have twelve hundred cyclists registered.
W: I doubt they' 11 block the road when die cyclists start out？
M: Don' t worry, we' ve introduced the staggered starts to avoid these problems. Our fast group will leave Ottawa at seven o' clock.
W: Thank you, Robin. Now down to the starting line of the university.
Where does this interview take place？
A．In the radio studio.
B．In the bicycle shop.
C．On the road.
Then one evening, after he had looked【C13】______the straw and emptied the factory worker's pockets【C14】______, he【C15】______to him, "Listen, I know that you【C16】______things across this frontier. Won't you tell me what it is that you're【C17】______into the country so successfully？ I'm an old man, and today's my last day on the【C18】______. Tomorrow I 'm going to retire. I【C19】______that I shall not tell anyone if you have been smuggling." The factory worker did not say anything【C20】______some time. Then he smiled, turned to Henry and said quickly, "Bicycles."
【C1】
A．if
B．unless
C．whether
D．that
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W: How long will it take to cycle one-way, Robin？
M: About seven to nine hours for the average cyclists. Racers can do it in four hours. But I said, the tour is not intended to be a race.
W: How many people will be taking part this year？
M: This is our biggest year ever. We have twelve hundred cyclists registered.
W:I doubt they'll block the road when the cyclists start out？
M: Don't worry, we've introduced the staggered starts to avoid these problems.Our first group will leave Ottawa at seven o'clock, and other groups will follow every twenty minutes.
W: Thank you, Robin. Now down to the starting line of the university.
Where does this interview take place？
A．In the radio studio.
B．In the bicycle shop.
C．On the road.
Even the first century of the industrial revolution produced more "improvements" than "revolutions" in standards of living. With the railroad and the spinning and weaving of textiles as important exceptions, most innovations of that period were innovations in how goods were produced and transported, and in new kinds of capital, but not in consumer goods. Standards of living improved but styles of life remained much the same.
The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries saw a faster and different kind of change. For the first time, technological capability outran population growth and natural resource scarcity. By the last quarter of the nineteenth century, the typical inhabitant of the leading economies—a British, a Belgian, an American, or an Australian had perhaps three times the standard of living of someone in a pre-industrial economy.
Still, so slow was the pace of change that people, or at least aristocratic intellectuals, could think of their predecessors of some two thousand years before as effectively their contemporaries. Marcus Tullius Cicero, a Roman aristocrat and politician, might have felt more or less at home in the company of Thomas Jefferson. The plows were better in Jefferson's time. Sailing ships were much improved. However, these might have been insufficient to create a sense of a qualitative change in the order of life for the elite. Moreover, being a slave of Jefferson was probably a lot like being a slave of Cicero.
So slow was the pace of change that intellectuals in the early nineteenth century debated whether the industrial revolution was worthwhile, whether it was an improvement or a degeneration in the standard of living. Opinions were genuinely divided, with as optimistic a liberal as John Stuart Mill coming down on the "pessimist" side as late as the end of the 1840s.
In the twentieth century, however, standards of living exploded. In the twentieth century, the magnitude of the growth in material wealth has been so great as to make it nearly impossible to measure. Consider a sample of consumer goods available through Montgomery Ward in 1895 when a one-speed bicycle cost $65. Since then, the price of a bicycle measured in "nominal" dollars has more than doubled (as a result of inflation). Today, the bicycle is much less expensive in terms of the measure that truly counts, its "real" price: the work and sweat needed to earn its east. In 1895, it took perhaps 260 hours' worth of the average American worker's production to amass enough money to buy a one-speed bicycle. Today an average American worker can buy one—and of higher quality—for less than 8 hours worth of production.
On the bicycle standard (measuring wealth by counting up how many bicycles the labor can buy) the average American worker today is 36 times richer than his or her counterpart was in 1895. Other commodities would tell a different story. An office chair has become 12.5 times cheaper in terms of the time it takes the average worker to produce enough to pay for it. A Steinway piano or an accordion is only twice as cheap. A silver teaspoon is 25 percent more expensive.
Thus the answer to the question "How much wealthier are we today than our counterparts of a century ago？" depends on which commodities you view as important. For many personal services—having a butler to answer the door and polish your silver spoons—you would find little difference in average wealth between 1895 and 1990: an
A．believed that they were very much the same as their equals some two thousand years before.
B．probably thought that great changes had occurred since Cicero.
C．felt that qualitative changes had occurred in the last two thousand years.
D．believed in the efficacy of slavery.
Then one evening，after he had looked through the straw and emptied the factory worker's pockets【17】usual，he said to him，“Listen，I know that you are smuggling things【18】this frontier. Won't you tell me what it is that you're bringing into the country so successfully？ I'm an old man，and today's my last day on the job. Tomorrow I'm going to【19】. I promise that I shall not tell anyone if you tell me what you've been smuggling. ”The factory worker did not say anything for【20】. Then he smiled，turned to Henry and said quietly：“Bicycles. ”
(11)
A．should
B．might
C．would
D．must
Then one evening, after he has looked【48】the straw and emptied the factory worker's ,pockets【49】usual, he【50】to him, "Listen. I know that you are smuggling things【51】this frontier. Won't you tell me what it is that you are bring into. Today's my last day on the【52】. Tomorrow I'm going to【53】. I promise that I shall not tell【54】if you tell me what you've been smuggling." The factory worker did not say anything for【55】. Then he smiled, turned to Henry and said quickly: "Bicycles."
(66)
A．should
B．would
C．might
D．must
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