[单项选择]The article states that the languages of most uncivilized peoples are______.
A. extremely complex
B. most severely standardized
C. " backward"
D. understandable

[单项选择]The article states that the languages of most uncivilized peoples are______.


A. extremely complex
B. most severely standardized
C. " backward"
D. understandable

[单项选择]The article states that grunt-and-groan forms of speech are found ______.
A. nowhere today
B. among the Australian aborigines
C. among Eastern cultures
D. among people speaking "backward" language

[单项选择]This article is most probably intended for ______.
A. professional salesmen
B. students of business
C. executive managers
D. salesmen of coca cola

[单项选择]The article is most likely a part of______
A. a news article
B. a journalistic interview
C. a research report
D. a preface

[单项选择]This article focuses most clearly on ______.
A. the architectural beauties of the White House
B. early residents of the White House
C. improvements in the White House
D. the history of the White House to 1950

[单项选择]The article would most likely be found in ______

[单项选择]Where is the article most likely from


A. A text hook.
B. A dictionary.
C. A magazine.
D. A biological book.

[单项选择]

Text 4
Most economists in the United States seem excited by the spell of the free market. Consequently, nothing seems good or normal that does not accord with the requirements of the free market. A price that is determined by the seller or, for that matter, established by anyone other than the aggregate of consumers seems harmful. Accordingly, it requires a major act of will to think of price-fixing (the determination of prices by the seller) as both "normal" and having a valuable economic function. In fact, price-fixing is normal in all industrialized societies because the industrial system itself provides, as an effortless consequence of its own development, the price-fixing that it requires. Modern industrial planning requires and rewards great size. Hence, a comparatively small number of large firms will be competing for the same group of consumers. That each large firmwill act with consideration of its own needs and thus avoid selling its products fo
A. refute the theory that the free market plays a useful role in the development of industrialized societies.
B. argue that price-fixing, in one form or another, is an inevitable part of and benefit to the economy of any industrialized society.
C. show that in industrialized societies price-fixing and the operation of the free market are not only compatible but also mutually beneficial.
D. explain the various ways in which industrialized societies can fix prices in order to stabilize the free market.