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mmed it up this way : On the Continent you can’t do anything unless you’ve been old you can。每一段的主題用一個或幾個單詞表示,空出的詞已給出了第一個字母,請把其余字母補全。 ○D. Farming. ○A. reflects itself in many other industries ○C. the higher cost of living Passage 1 ○A. The Business Cycle ○D. will end abruptly ○B(yǎng). in a confident manner in England on the other hand you can do everything as long as you haven’t been told not to. There are many basic reasons for these differences. One is that Continental savers (儲蓄者) tend to prefer gold, cash or shortterm assets. They invest only 10% of their savings in institutions like pension funds or insurance panies. But in Britain 50% of savings goes to them, and they, in turn, invest directly in equity (證券) market. A far lower proportion of savings is put in the banks in the form of liquid assets than on the Continent. Continent governments intervene directly or through the banks to collect saving together and transform them into medium or longterm loans for investment. The equity market is largely bypassed. On the Continent economic planning tends to be far more centralized (把……集中起來) than in Britain. In Britain it is possible to influence decisions affecting the country’s economy from within the City. It attracts a skilled and highly qualified work force. In France, on the other hand, an intelligent young man who wants a career in finance would probably find the civil service more attractive. In Britain the market or more accurately, money tends to be regarded as an end in itself. On the Continent it is regarded as a means to an end。 Boadicea, Queen of the early English tribes of the first century, who fought against the Romans, or Emily Pankhurst, who fought to get the vote for women early in this century. 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 heroeslike 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(yǎng). 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(yǎng). Merchants. ○C. Officials. ○D. The Bank of England. 28. Why is there noone 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(yǎng). 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(yǎng). the French army ○C. the Spanish army ○D. the Russian army 30. BBC Modern English is _____________. ○A. a book ○B(yǎng)