【正文】 sources [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。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)學英語政治視頻課程 提供試看文件 提供試用下載網(wǎng)盤 0 考研英語閱讀理解電子教材 主講： 范猛 歡迎使用新東方在線電子教材 教材說明： 本電子教材 word 文檔下面的頁碼跟教材完全一樣，學員只需根據(jù)老師說的多少頁找到相應的頁面學習即可。 請?zhí)崆邦A習、認真學習、及時復習，祝廣大考研學子考研成功！ 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)學英語政治視頻課程 提供試看文件 提供試用下載網(wǎng)盤 1 閱讀理解全真試題（ 1994— 2020 年） Unit 1 Passage 1 The American economic system is anized around a basically privateenterprise, marketoriented economy in which consumers largely determine what shall be produced by spending their money in the marketplace for those goods and services that they want most. Private businessmen. striving to make profits, produce these goods and services in petition with other businessmen。s already here. While puters offer these conveniences to consumers. they have many advantages for sellers too. Electronic cash registers can do much more than simply ring up sales. They can keep a wide range of records, including who sold what, when, and to whom. This information allows businessmen to keep track of their list of goods by showing which items are being sold and how fast they are moving. 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)學英語政治視頻課程 提供試看文件 提供試用下載網(wǎng)盤 3 Decisions to reorder or return goods to suppliers can then be made. At the same time these puters record which hours are busiest and which employees are the most efficient, allowing personnel and staffing assignments to be made accordingly. And they also identify preferred customers for promotional campaigns. Computers are relied on by manufacturers for similar reasons. Computeranalyzed marketing reports can help to decide which products to emphasize now, which to develop for the future, and which to drop. Computers keep track of goods in stock, of raw materials on hand, and even of the production process itself. Numerous other merical enterprises, from theaters to magazine publishers, from gas and electric utilities to milk processors, bring better and more efficient services to consumers through the use of puters. 55. According to the passage, the credit card enables its owner to ________. [A] withdraw as much money from the bank as he wishes [B] obtain more convenient services than other people do [C] enjoy greater trust from the storekeeper [D] cash money wherever he wishes to 56. From the last sentence of the first paragraph we learn that ________. [A] in the future all the Americans will use credit cards [B] credit cards are mainly used in the United States today [C] nowadays many Americans do not pay in cash [D] it is now more convenient to use credit cards than before 57. The phrase ring up sales (Line 2, Para. 2) most probably means ________ [A] make an order of goods [B] record sales on a cash register [C] call the sales manager [D] keep track of the goods in stock 58. What is this passage mainly about? [A] Approaches to the mercial use of puters. [B] conveniences brought about by puters in business. [C] Significance of automation in mercial enterprises. [D] Advantages of credit cards in business. Passage 3 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)學英語政治視頻課程 提供試看文件 提供試用下載網(wǎng)盤 4 Exceptional children are different in some significant way from others of the same age. For these children to develop to their full adult potential. their education must be adapted to those differences. Although we focus on the needs of exceptional children, we find ourselves describing their environment as well. While the leading actor on the stage captures our attention, we are aware of the importance of the supporting players and the scenery of the play itself. Both the family and the society in which exceptional children live are often the key to their growth and development. And it is in the public schools that we find the full expression of society39。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。s founders [D] will exert great influence over court decisions Passage 4 I have great confidence that by the end of the decade we39。 as Hayward points out, We can39。 t be a drastic increase of survival rate of all cancer patients 65. Oncogenes are cancercausing genes ________. [A] that are always in operation in a healthy person [B] which remain unharmful so long as they are not activated [C] that can be driven out of normal cells [D] which normal cell can39。 even the best players miss the goal and have their shots blocked much more frequently than they score. They point is that the players who score most are the ones who take the most shots at the goal— and so it goes with innovation in any field of activity. The prime difference between innovators and others is one of approach. Everybody ge