2009年12月大學(xué)英語六級考試模擬演練題(二)

　　注意：此部分試題請在答題卡2上作答。

　　The American economic system is organized around a basically private enterprise. It’s (36) ________ ecomomy in which consumers determine what shall be producted by spending their money for those goods and services. Private businessmen, (37) ________ to make their profits, produce these goods and services in (38) _______ with other businessmen, and the profit (39) _______ , operating under competitive pressures, largely (40) ________ how these goods and services are produced. Thus, in the American economic system it is the demand of individual consumers, (41)_________ with the desire of businessmen to gain more profits and the desire of individuals to (42) _________ their incomes, that together determine what shall be produced and how (43) ________ are used to produce it.

　　(44)________________________. In the American economy, this mechanism is provided by a price system, a process in which prices rise and fall in response to relative demands of consumers. If the product is in short reply relative to the demand, the price will be a bit up and some consumers will be eliminated from the market. If, on the other hand, (45) ______________________ which in turn will lower the price and permit more consumers to buy the product . Thus, price is the regulating mechanism in the American economic system.

　　The important factor in a private-oriented economy is that individuals are permitted to hire labor, gain comtrol over natural resources, and produce goods and services for sale at a profit. In the American economy, (46) ___________________________, including determining the price or making a free contract .

　　Part Ⅳ Reading Comprehension (Reading in Depth) (25 minutes)

　　Section A

　　Directions:In the section, there is a short passage with 5 questions or incomplete statements. Read the passage carefully. Then answer the questions or complete the statements in the fewest possible words. Please write your answers on Answer Sheet 2.

　　Questions 47 to 51 are based on the following passage.

　　The history of the development of modern sport is the history of the development of industrial capitalism. There is, of course, documented evidence of ball games, racket games and athletic games, that date well before industrial capitalism. However they are unrecognizable from today’s sports. Take, for example, football and rugby, derivatives of folk football, where a game would continue for days, with no boundaries expect the edge of the village, or the edge of the next village. People would throw or kick the ball, it was mixed, there was no offside rule, no 90 minutes, and really no discernible winners. The Olympics are always claimed as having their roots in the athletic cultrue of ancient Greek society. Yet their origins were about military training in a far from equal society at the end of the 19 th century and these were games which relatively few people would watch . The Olympics were revived with the emergence of international trade. The first hour modern Olympics were held in conjunction with trade fairs.