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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.
Large companies need a way to reach the savings of the public at large. The same problem, on a smaller scale, faces practically every company trying to develop new products and create new jobs, There can be little prospect(前景) of raising the sort of sums needed from friends and people we know, and while banks may agree to provide short-term finance, they are generally unwilling to provide money on a permanent basis for long-term projects. So companies turn to the public, inviting people to lend them money, or take a share in the business in exchange for a share in future profits. This they do by issuing stocks and shares in the business through the Stock Exchange. By doing so they can put into circulation the savings of individuals both at home and overseas.
When the saver needs his money back, he does not have to go to the company with whom he originally placed it. In stead, he sells his shares through a stockbroker(证券经纪人)to some other saver who is seeking to invest his money.
Many of the services needed both by industry and by each of us are provided by the Government or by local authorities. Without hospitals, roads, electricity, telephones, equipment and new development if they are to serve us properly, requiring more money than is raised through taxes alone. The government, local authorities, and nationalized industries therefore frequently need to borrow money to finance major capital spending, and they too, come to the Stock Exchange.
There is hardly a man or woman in this country whose job or whose 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 savings of the country. The Stock Exchange exists to provide a channel through which these savings can reach those who need finance.
Almost all companies involved in new production and development must ______.

A. rely on their own financial resources
B. persuade the banks to provide long-term finance
C. borrow large sums of money from friends and people they know
D. depend on the population as a whole for finance

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A.The cat can reach their terminal speed.B.The cat does not change its final speed.C.H

A. The cat can reach their terminal speed.
B. The cat does not change its final speed.
C. His legs spread out and muscles absorb more force of impact.
D. He will slow down and reduce the damage.

听力原文: Dr. Williams in New York carried out a study of cats, which had fallen out of windows of apartment blocks. Nine out of ten survived a fall of two storeys or more. One cat fell from a flat on the thirty- second floor and only lost a tooth. Interestingly, the cats were most at risk from injury or death if they fell from the seventh floor. Falling from either a lesser or greater height gave them a better chance of survival.
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A. Nine out of ten.
B. One third.
C. Elven out of thirty.
D. One fourth.

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Because there the eyes can reach about 4,000 metres.
C. Because there planes are clear of bad weather.
D. Because there planes fly more quickly than at the equator.

A.In warm air.B.In cold airC.When it reaches the polar region.D.Only when the clouds a

A. In warm air.
B. In cold air
C. When it reaches the polar region.
D. Only when the clouds are down low.

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