05-专二模拟练习及详解.doc

PAGE PAGE 2 专二完型、语法与词汇专项训练（11套） 第一节 完型填空 Decide which of the choices given below would best complete the passage if inserted in the corresponding blanks. Model Test 1 A market is commonly thought of as a place where commodities are bought and sold. Thus fruit and vegetables are sold wholesale at Covent Garden Market and meat is sold wholesale at Smithfield Market. But there are markets for things _____1_____commodities, in the usual ___2___. There are ___3___estate markets, foreign exchange markets, labour markets, short-term capital markets, and so on; there may be a market for anything that has a price. And there may be no particular place to which dealings are ___4___. Buyers and sellers may be ___5___ over the whole world and instead of actually meeting together in a market-place they may deal with one another ___6___ telephone, telegram, cable or letter. ___7___ dealings are ___8___ to a particular place, the dealers may consist wholly or in part of agents ___9___ instructions from clients far away. Thus agents buy meat at Smithfield ___10___ retail butchers all over England; and ___11___ on the London Stock Exchange buy and sell ___12___ on instructions from clients all over the world. We must therefore define a market as any area over which buyers and sellers are in such close touch with one another, either directly or through ___13___, ___14___ the prices ___15___ in one part of the market affect the prices paid in other parts. Modern means of communication are so rapid that a buyer can discover ___16___ by asking, and can accept it if he wishes, ___17___ he may be thousands of miles away. Thus the market for anything is, ___18___, the whole world. But in fact things have, normally, only a local or national market. This may be because nearly the whole demand is ___19___ in one locality. These special local demands, ___20___, are of quite minor importance. The main reason why many things have not a world market is that they are costly or difficult to