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Banks are not ordinarily prepared to pay out all accounts: they rely on depositors(储户)not to demand payment all at the same time

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问题     Banks are not ordinarily prepared to pay out all accounts: they rely on depositors(储户)not to demand payment all at the same time. If depositors should come to fear that a bank is not safe, that it cannot pay off all its depositors, then that fear might cause all the depositors to appear on the same day. If they did, the bank could not pay all accounts. However, if they did not all appear at once, then there would always be enough money to pay those who wanted their money when they wanted it. Mrs. Elsie Vaught has told us of a terrifying bank run that she experienced. One day in December of 1925 several banks failed to open in a city where Mrs. Vaught lived. The other banks expected a run the next day, and so the officers of the bank in which Mrs. Vaught worked as a teller had enough money on hand to pay off their depositors. The officers simply told the tellers to pay on demand. The next morning a crowd gathered in the bank and on the sidewalk outside. The length of the line made many think that the bank could not possibly pay off everyone. People began to push and then to fight for places near the tellers’ windows. The power of the panic atmosphere was such that two tellers, though they knew that the bank was quite all right and could pay all depositors, drew their own money from the bank. Mrs. Vaught says that she had difficulty keeping herself from doing the same.
A bank run happens when______.
选项 A、a bank is closed for one or more days
B、too many depositors try to draw out their money at one time
C、there is not enough money to pay all its depositors at one time
D、tellers of a bank take their own money from the bank
答案B
解析 细节题。本题问当……时会发生银行挤兑风潮。根据文章开头所述，以及沃特太太所说她本人经历过的银行挤兑风潮可知，选项B。“太多的存款人同时来提款”是对的。其它选项都不对：A．银行关门一天以上；C．没有足够的钱来一次性支付所有存款人；D．银行出纳把自己的钱从银行取出来。
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