英语考试阅读理解。
1.分析与解答：正确答案为D。
2.分析与解答：正确答案为C。
3.分析与解答：正确答案为D。
4.分析与解答：正确答案为D。
5.分析与解答：正确答案为B。
6.分析与解答：正确答案为B。
7.分析与解答：答案为D。文章第一段说明价格与商品及服务的密切关系，后文一直讨论涉及商品与服务的各项内容。选项D与此相符，故为正确答案。
8.分析与解答：正确答案为A。
9.分析与解答：正确答案为C。
10.分析与解答：选D。文章第二段最后一部分提及买卖双方应充分了解构成索价与交易总的诸因素，但并没有进一步说明这些因素如何影响索价与交易总值。由此判断，下文可能谈论这一问题。选项D与此吻合，故为正确答案。
11.分析与解答：选B，本文详细讲述了特蛎的移植培育过程，第一段说明了移植特蛎的几个步骤及其生长的阶段：egg, larvae, spat。随后，讲到培育特蛎的必要性及为此付出巨大努力。最后一段介绍了海洋生物学家改良牡蛎、的培养出新品种，使之能够抵御疾病，长得快，体积大，味道美。故B为正确选项。
12.分析与解答：A为正确选项。
13.分析与解答：A为正确选项。
14.分析与解答：D为正确选项
15.分析与解答：选B，从对第31题的分析可以看出，作者按时间先后讨论有关特蛎生产的具体事宜。in the past, the early 1900's, in the 1940's, recently, later 等词标志着不同事件发生的时间。
16.分析与解答：主旨题，文章首句点题，所以选B。
17.分析与解答：根据文章第一段的最后一句选择C。
18.分析与解答：根据列举的原因可推知“hamper”的意思应与D.阻碍相对应。
19.分析与解答：代词it作用是为了避免和前一分句中的material重复，所以选B。
20.分析与解答：because后的句子即为此题答案，所以选A。
Passage 1
Good sense is the most equitably distributed thing in the world, for each man considers himself so well provided with it that even those who are most difficult to satisfy in everything else do not usually wish to have more of it than they have already. It is not likely that everyone is mistaken in this; it shows, rather, that the ability to judge rightly and separate the true from the false, which is essentially what is called good sense or reason, is by nature equal in all men,and thus that our opinions differ not because some men are better endowed with reason than others, but only because we direct our thoughts along different paths, and do not consider the same things, for it is not enough to have a good mind: what is most important is to apply it rightly. The greatest souls are capable of the greatest vices; and those who walk very slowly can advance much further, if they always keep to the direct road, than those who run and go astray.
For my part, I have never presumed my mind to be more perfect than average in any way; I have, in fact, often wished that my thoughts were as quick, or my imagination as precise and distinct, or my memory as capacious or prompt, as those of some other men. And I know of no other qualities than these which make for the perfection of the mind; for as to reason, or good sense, in as much as it alone makes us men and distinguishes us from the beasts, I am quite willing to believe that it is whole and entire in each of us, and to follow in the common opinion of the philosophers who say that there are differences of more or less only among the accidents, and not among the forms, or natures, of the individuals of a single species.
1. According to the author, the three elements that comprise our mind are
A. tenacity of thought, capacious memory, quickness of mind
B. precise of wit, ease of conscience, quickness of thought
C. quickness of wit, ease of conscience, quickness of thought
D. promptness of memory, distinctness of imagination, quickness of thought
2. The basic idea of the first paragraph may be stated as follows .
A. all persons have an equal portion of good will when they are born
B. great souls are capable of great evil
C. good sense, in terms of its distribution among persons, may be called common sense
D. good sense is the mark of the truly good person
3. About himself, the author states that .
A. he had always sensed his mental superiority over most persons
B. his awareness of his mental superiority over others was something that grew slowly with experience
C. he actually regards his own mental faculties as inferior in many ways to those of the great majority of persons
D. he has never had the feeling that his mind was more than average in any way
4. The author claims that what sets human beings apart from beasts is .
A. a sense of organization combined with the ability to create
B. the ability to adapt to the surroundings
C. a sense of reason coupled with a strong sense of practicality
D. a sense of reason
5. According to the author the ability to distinguish between the true and the false is .
A. endowed by nature to all creatures
B. endowed in equal measure to all persons
C. more heavily present in some persons than in others
D. an unnatural, cultivated trait in all persons
Passage 2
Prices determine how resources are to be used. They are also the means by which products and services that are in limited supply are rationed among buyers. The price system of the United States is a very complex network composed of the prices of all the products bought and sold in the economy as well as those of a myriad of services, including labor, professional transportation, and public utility services.
The interrelationships of all these prices make up the "system"of prices. The price of any particular product or service is linked to a broad, complicated system of prices in which everything seems to depend more or less upon everything else.
If one were to ask a group of randomly selected individuals to define "price," many would reply that price is an amount of money paid by the buyer to the seller of a product of service or, in other words, that price is the money value of a product of service as agreed upon in a market transaction. This definition is, of course, valid as far as it goes. For a complete understanding of a price in any particular transaction, much more than the amount of money involved must be known. Both the buyer and the seller should be familiar with not only the money amount, but with the amount and quality of the product or service to be exchanged, the time and place at which the exchange will take place and payment will be made, the form of money to be used, the credit terms and discounts that supply to the transaction, guarantees on the product or service, delivery terms, return privileges, and other factors. In other words, both buyer and seller should be fully aware of all the factors that comprise the total"package"being exchanged for the asked-for amount of money in order that they may evaluate a given price.
