【正文】 ossibilities. Creative thinking may mean simply the realization that there39。ve heard it many times, but it still has important meaning for education in a democratic society. Although the phrase was used by this country39。 and the profit motive, operating under petitive pressures, largely determines how these goods and services are produced. Thus, in the American economic system it is the demand of individual consumers, coupled with the desire of businessmen to maximize profits and the desire of individuals to maximize their ines, that together determine what shall be produced and how resources are used to produce it. An important factor in a marketoriented economy is the mechanism by which consumer demands can be expressed and responded to by producers. 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 and supplies offered by sellerproducers. If the product is in short supply relative to the demand, the price will be bid up and some consumers will be eliminated from the market. If, on the other hand, producing more of a modity results in reducing its cost, this will tend to increase the supply offered by sellerproducers. 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 privateenterprise economy is that individuals are allowed to own productive resources (private property), and they are permitted to hire labor, gain control over natural resources, and produce goods and services for sale at a profit. In the American economy, the concept of private property embraces not only the ownership of productive resources but also certain rights, including the right to determine the price of a product or to make a free contract with another private individual. 51. In Line 7, Para. 1, the desire of individuals to maximize their ines means ________. 該套資料由蕓蕓視頻整理 ： 747883097 TL： 028 8194 2202 期待廣大考生咨詢 推薦： 09 年新東方考研數(shù)學(xué)英語政治視頻課程 提供試看文件 提供試用下載網(wǎng)盤 2 [A] Americans are never satisfied with their ines [B] Americans tend to overstate their ines [C] Americans want to have their ines increased [D] Americans want to increase the purchasing power of their ines 52. The first two sentences in the second paragraph tell us that ________. [A] producers can satisfy the consumers by mechanized production [B] consumers can express their demands through producers [C] producers decide the prices of products [D] supply and demand regulate prices 53. According to the passage, a privateenterprise economy is characterized by ________. [A] private property and rights concerned [B] manpower and natural resources control [C] ownership of productive resources [D] free contracts and prices 54. The passage is mainly about ________. [A] how American goods are produced [B] how American consumers buy their goods [C] how American economic system works [D] how American businessmen make their profits Passage 2 One hundred and thirteen million Americans have at least one bankissued credit card. They their owners automatic credit in stores, restaurants, and hotels, at home, across the country, and even abroad, and they make many banking services available as well. More and more of these credit cards can be read automatically, making it possible to withdraw or deposit money in scattered locations, whether or not the local branch bank is open. For many of us the cashless society is not on the horizon — it39。t prepare a medicine against cosmic rays. The prospects for cure, though still distant, are brighter. First, we need to understand how the normal cell controls itself, Second, we have to determine whether there are a limited number of genes in cells which are always responsible for at least part of the trouble. If we can understand how cancer works, we can counteract its action. 63. The example of Pasteur in the passage is used to ________. [A] predict that the secret of cancer will be disclosed in a decade [B] indicate that the prospects for curing cancer are bright [C] prove that cancer will be cured in fifty to sixty years [D] warn that there is still a long way to go before cancer can be conquered 64. The author implies that by the year 2020, ________. [A] there will be a drastic rise in the fiveyear survival rate of skincancer patients [B] 90 percent of he skincancer patients today will still be living [C] the survival statistics will be fairly even among patients with various cancers [D] there won39。 one a product, the other as a process. People have generally viewed personal growth as an external result or product that can easily be indentified and measured. The worker who gets a promotion, the student whose grades improve, the foreigner who learns a new language—— all these are examples of people who have measurable results to show for their efforts. By contrast, the process of personal growth is much more difficult to determine, since by definition 該套資料由蕓蕓視頻整理 ： 747883097 TL： 028 8194 2202 期待廣大考生咨詢 推薦： 09 年新東方考研數(shù)學(xué)英語政治視頻課程 提供試看文件 提供試用下載網(wǎng)盤 11 it is a journey and not the specific signposts or landmarks along the way. The process is not the road itself, but rather the attitudes and feelings people have, their caution or courage, as they encounter new experiences and unexpected obstacles. In this process, the journey never really ends。 moral standard and measure their success by sporting achievements. The current passion for making children pete against their classmates or against the clock produces a twolayer system, in which petitive Atypes seem in some way better than their B ty