20xx年考研英语模拟试题及答案(doc85)-考试学习(编辑修改稿)

20xx年考研英语模拟试题及答案(doc85)-考试学习(编辑修改稿)内容摘要：

his customers, he must have active contacts with others who specialize in making or handling bulk quantities of whatever is his stock in trade. The money market is made up of specialized facilities of exactly this kind. It exists for the purpose of improving the ability of the retailers of financial services—mercial banks, savings institutions, investment houses, lending agencies, and even governments—to do their job. It has little if any contact with the individuals or firms who maintain accounts with these various retailers or purchase their securities or borrow from them. 中国最大的管理资源中心 (大量免费资源 共享 ) 第 12 页 共 71 页 The elemental functions of a money market must be performed in any kind of modern economy, even one that is largely planned or socialist, but the arrangements in socialist countries do not ordinarily take the form of a market. Money markets exist in countries that use market processes rather than planned allocations to distribute most of their primary resources among alternative uses. The general distinguishing feature of a money market is that it relies upon open petition among those who are bulk suppliers of funds at any particular time and among those seeking bulk funds, to work out the best practicable distribution of the existing total volume of such funds. In their market transactions, those with bulk supplies of funds or demands for them, rely on groups of intermediaries who act as brokers or dealers. The characteristics of these middlemen, the services they perform, and their relationship to other parts of the financial vary widely from country to country. In many countries there is no single meeting place where the middlemen get together, yet in most countries the contacts among all participants are sufficiently open and free to assure each supplier or user of funds that he will get or pay a price that fairly reflects all of the influences (including his own) that are currently affecting the whole supply and the whole demand. In nearly all cases, 中国最大的管理资源中心 (大量免费资源 共享 ) 第 13 页 共 71 页 moreover, the unifying force of petition is reflected at any given moment in a mon price (that is, rate of interest) for similar transactions. Continuous fluctuations in the money market rates of interest result from changes in the pressure of available supplies of funds upon the market and in the pull of current demands upon the market. 26. The first paragraph is mainly about . A. the definition of money market B. the constitution of a money market C. the basic functions of a money market D. the general feature of a money market 27. According to this passage, the money market . A. provides convenient services to its customers 中国最大的管理资源中心 (大量免费资源 共享 ) 第 14 页 共 71 页 B. has close contact with the individuals or firms seeking funds C. maintains accounts with various retailers of financial services D. is made up of institutions who specialize in handling wholesale moary transactions 28. Which of the following statements concerning money market is not true according to this passage? A. Money market does not exist in planned economies. B. Money market has been established in some socialist countries. C. Money market encourages open petition among bulk suppliers of funds. D. Money market relies upon market processes to distribute funds to final users. 29. The author uses the example of middleman to show . 中国最大的管理资源中心 (大量免费资源 共享 ) 第 15 页 共 71 页 A. market transactions are important in different countries B. dealers are needed in doing business C. middlemen can play GREat role in different transactions and different countries. D. middlemen in different countries have different actions in business. 30. According to this passage, . A. brokers usually perform the same kinds of services to their customers B. brokers have little contact with each other C. open petition tends to result in a mon price for similar transactions at any given moment D. changes in the pressure of available supplies of funds upon market tends to maintain a mon price for similar transactions 中国最大的管理资源中心 (大量免费资源 共享 ) 第 16 页 共 71 页 Text 3 Environmental issues raise a host of difficult ethical questions, including the ancient one of the nature of intrinsic value. Whereas many philosophers in the past have agreed that human experiences have intrinsic value and the utilitarians at least have always accepted that the pleasures and pains of nonhuman animals are of some intrinsic significance, this does not show why it is so bad if dodos bee extinct or a rain forest is cut down. Are these things to be regretted only because of the loss to humans or other sentient creatures? Or is there more to it than that? Some philosophers are now prepared to defend the view that trees, rivers, species (considered apart from the individual animals of which they consist), and perhaps ecological systems as a whole have a value independent of the instrumental value they may have for human。