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?Read the article below about foundations of business.
?Choose the correct word or phrase to fill each gap from A, B, C, or D
?For each question 21—30, mark one letter (A, B, C, or D) on your Answer Sheet.
Business is the organized effort of individuals to produce and sell, for a profit, the goods and services that please society's needs. Four kinds of resources—material, human, financial, and informational—must be (21) to start and operate a business. The three general types of businesses are manufacturers, service businesses, and marketing middlemen.
Profit is what remains after all business expenses are (22) from sales revenue. It is thus the payment that business owners receive for (23) the risks of business: primarily the risks of not receiving payment and of losing whatever has been (24) in the firm. Most often, a business that is operated to satisfy its customers earns a reasonable profit.
By studying business, you can become a more (25) consumer and investor and be a better employee. And with a working knowledge of business, you may decide to open your own business.
Since its beginnings in the seventeenth century, American business has been based on private ownership of (26) and freedom of enterprise. And from this beginning, through the Industrial Revolution of the early nineteenth century, to the (27) expansion of American industry in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, our government (28) an essentially laissez-faire attitude toward business. However, during the Great (29) of the 1930s, the federal government began to provide a number of social services to its citizens. Government's role in business has expanded (30) since that time.
(21)

A. connected
B. united
C. combined
D. joined

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听力原文:M: Where did Suzanne come from?
W: She was born in Switzerland and grew up in Sweden, but now she's a citizen of England.
What country does Suzanne presently call her home?

America.
B. England.
C. Switzerland.
D. Sweden.

Big Ben is the great clock【C3】______up in a tower of the Parliament building. This is the building in London where laws are【C4】______. The people of London like to see Big Ben's four friendly faces. They like to hear the chimes【C5】______. 15 minutes. They like to hear the bell【C6】______on the hour. Bong! Bong! Bong!
Big Ben's story started in 1834. In that year the old parliament building burned【C7】______. Its clock tower crashed to the ground. There【C8】______to be a new building—and a new clock.
Plans were made. They called【C9】______a "King of Clocks, the biggest and best in the world". So the clock had to be big. And it had to【C10】______very good time.
In two years the big clock was made. Five more years went by【C11】______the clock tower was finished. Then the four bells for the chimes were brought into the tower. And at last the giant hour bell was put in【C12】______. It rang our for the first time【C13】______July 11, 1859.
This great bell had to【C14】______a name. A meeting of Parliament was called to pick【C15】______. "This clock is the King of Clocks," one man said. "Let's call the bell the Queen of Bells."
"Then why not Victoria?" said【C16】______.(Victoria was the British queen at that time)The talk about names went【C17】______. Then Benjamin Hall got up to speak. He was a big man that others liked. By this time they were all【C18】______. Some one shouted, "Why not call it Big Ben and be done【C19】______it?"
Everybody laughed, and the meeting broke up. But Big Ben it was from then on. Not just the bell【C20】______the whole clock.
【C1】

A. once
B. usually
C. ever
D. even

A.To help starving families to become selfsupporting.B.To make plans for the developme

A. To help starving families to become selfsupporting.
B. To make plans for the development of poor communities.
C. To teach people how to use new skills to raise animals.
D. To distribute food to the poor around the world.

A.They should help other families the way they have been helped.B.They should offer al

A. They should help other families the way they have been helped.
B. They should offer all baby animals to their poor neighbors.
C. They should submit a report of their needs and goals.
D. They should provide food for the local communities.

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