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  3. A market is commonly thought of as a place where commodities are bought and sold. Thus fruit and vegetables are sold wholesale a

A market is commonly thought of as a place where commodities are bought and sold. Thus fruit and vegetables are sold wholesale a

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问题     A market is commonly thought of as a place where commodities are bought and sold. Thus fruit and vegetables are sold wholesale at Covent Garden Market and meat is sold wholesale at Smithfield Market. But there are markets for things【C1】______commodities, in the usual【C2】______. There are【C3】______estate markets, foreign exchange markets, labour markets, short-term capital markets, and so on; there may be a market for anything that has a price. And there may be no particular place to which dealings are【C4】______. Buyers and sellers may be【C5】______over the whole world and instead of actually meeting together in a market-place they may deal with one another【C6】______telephone, telegram, cable or letter.【C7】______dealings are【C8】______to a particular place, the dealers may consist wholly or in part of agents【C9】______instructions from clients far away. Thus agents buy meat at Smithfield【C10】______retail butchers all over England; and【C11】______on the London Stock Exchange buy and sell【C12】______on instructions from clients all over the world. We must therefore define a market as any area over which buyers and sellers are in such close touch with one another, either directly or through【C13】______,【C14】______the prices【C15】______in one part of the market affect the prices paid in other parts.
    Modern means of communication are so rapid that a buyer can discover【C16】______by asking, and can accept it if he wishes,【C17】______he may be thousands of miles away. Thus the market for anything is,【C18】______, the whole world. But in fact things have, normally, only a local or national market.
    This may be because nearly the whole demand is【C19】______in one locality. These special local demands,【C20】______, are of quite minor importance. The main reason why many things have not a world market is that they are costly or difficult to transport.
【C1】
选项 A、rather than
B、other than
C、more than
D、less than
答案B
解析 篇章题。上下文理解题。文章首句介绍了什么是市场，举例说明后，用but表示转折，表达与前面相反的意义。而前面已交待市场的要素之一——commodities，此句也有commodities，当然只有否定它，含义才能与but相照应；后半句的in the usual(sense)也帮助推出相反的意义；紧接着下一句中列举的foreign exchange markets等也表明things所指与commodity有所不同。因此，选other than“不同于，除了，非”，如：The truth is quite other than what you think．事实真相和你想的完全不一样。rather than“而不是，与其……不如”，其意相当于in—stead of．如：He is a writer rather than a teacher．与其说他是教师，还不如说他是作家。more than“多于”和less than“少于”表示数量的比较。
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