启航模考班试卷(英语·一模).doc

启航模考班试卷(英语·一模)
(2007年考生适用)
Section I Use of English
Directions:
Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D on ANSWER SHEET 1. (10 points)
panies need a way to reach the savings of the public 21 . The same problem, 22 a small scale, faces practically pany trying to develop new products and create new jobs. There can be little 23 of raising the sums needed from friends and people we know. And 24 banks may agree to provide short-term finance. They are generally unwilling to provide money on a 25 basis for long-term projects. panies 26 the public, inviting people to lend them money, 27 take a share in future profits. This they do by 28 stocks and shares of their business in a stock exchange. By doing so they can 29 use the savings of individuals and institutions, both at home and overseas, when the inventor needs his money back, he does not have to go pany with whom he 30 placed it. 31 , he sells his shares through a stockbroker to some other person who is seeking to 32 his money, many of the services needed 33 by industry and by each of us are provided by the government or by local authorities. Without hospitals, roads, electricity, telephones, railways, etc, this country could not 34 . All these require continuous spending on new equipment and new development if they are to serve us properly, requiring more money that 35 through taxes alone. The government, local authorities, and nationalized industries 36 frequently need to borrow money to finance major capital spending, and they, too, come to a stock exchange.
There is 37 a man or woman in this country 38 job and 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 39 this new money e from the investment funds of the country. Stock exchanges exist to provide 40 a channel through which these funds can reach those who need financing.
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