What do you think of this selection? There’s no one who was alive in the last fifty years on it and no political leader. Why not? Why doesn’t the Bank choose popular heroes-like the Beetles, for example? Write and tell “BBC Modern English” who is on your list for this banknote. Imagine you have to choose some personality to go on a banknote in your own country. Who is your choice?

26. “Inflation” in this story means _________.
○A. “rise in prices resulting from an increase in the money, credit, etc.”
○B. “the rise and fall of the voice in speaking”
○C. “the process of inflating or being inflated”
○D. “an illness brought by infection”


27. Who dislike(s) inflation most?
○A. Ordinary people.
○B. Merchants.
○C. Officials.
○D. The Bank of England.


28. Why is there no-one who was alive in the last fifty years in the selection and no political leader?
○A. Because the Bank of England does not like contemporary figures and political leaders.
○B. Because living personalities and political leaders are not as influential as anyone in this selection.
○C. Because the Bank of England usually chooses safe and historical personalities.
○D. Because living personalities and political leaders are not allowed to be put on the back of the new banknote.


29. The British army at Waterloo was fighting against _________.
○A. the Indian army
○B. the French army
○C. the Spanish army
○D. the Russian army


30. BBC Modern English is _____________.
○A. a book
○B. a TV program
○C. a TV guide
○D. a magazine for students of English as a foreign language


第四部分　　概括大意 (20分)
给下面一篇文章的每一段概括大意。每一段的主题用一个或几个单词表示，空出的词已给出了第一个字母，请把其余字母补全。
31. F　　　 abundance and Price Rising
The long years of food shortage in this country have suddenly give way to apparent abundance. Stores and shops are choked with food. Rationing (定量供应) is virtually suspended (暂停), and overseas suppliers (供应商) have been asked to hold back deliveries. Yet, instead of joy, there is wide-spread uneasiness and confusion. Why do food prices keep on rising when there seems to be so much more food about? Is the abundance only temporary, or has it come to stay? Does it mean that we need to think less now about producing more food at home? No one knows what to expect.


32. Rea　　
The recent growth of export surpluses on the world food market has certainly been unexpectedly great, partly because a strange sequence of two successful grain harvests in North America is now being followed by a third. Most of Britain’s overseas suppliers of meat, too, are offering more this year and home production has also risen.


33. E　　 of Food Situation
But the effect of all this on the food situation in this country has been made worse by a simultaneous rise in food prices, due chiefly to the gradual cutting down of government support for food. The shops are overstocked (存货过多) with food out only because there is more food available, but also because people, frightened by high prices, are buying less of it.


34. Fa　　 of World Prices
Moreover, the rise in domestic prices has come at a time when world pries have begun to fall with the result that imported food, with the exception of grain, is often cheaper than the home-produced variety. And now grain prices, too, are falling. Consumers are beginning to ask why they should not be enabled to benefit form this trend.


35. The Res　　 of Farmers Fear
The significance of these developments is not lost on farmers. The older generation have seen it all happen before. Despite the present price and market guarantees, farmers fear they are about to be squeezed between cheap food imports and a shrinking home market. Present production is running at 51 per cent above pre-war levels, and the government has called for an expansion to 60 per cent by 1956; but repeated Ministerial (内阁的) advice is carrying little weight and the expansion programme is not working very well.

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