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The long year of food shortage in this country have suddenly given way to apparent abundance. Stores and shops are choked with food. Rationing (定量供应 ) is virtually suspended, and overseas suppliers have been asked to hold back deliveries. Yet, instead of joy, there is widespread uneasiness arid confusion. Why do food prices keep on rising, when there seems to be so much more food about Is the abundance only temporary, or has it come to stay Does it mean that we need to think less now about producing more food at home No one knows what to expect.
The recent growth of export-surpluses on the world food market has certainly been unexpectedly great, partly because a strange sequence of two successful grain harvests in North America is now being followed by a third. Most of Britain’s overseas suppliers of meat, too, are offering more this and home production has also risen.
But the effect of all this on the food situation in this country has
A. a sharp fall in the purchasing power of the consumers
B. a sharp fait in the cost of food production
C. the overproduction of food in the food-importing countries
D. the overproduction on the part of the main food-exporting countries
Text 1
The long year of food shortage in this country have suddenly given way to apparent abundance. Stores and shops are choked with food. Rationing (定量供应 ) is virtually suspended, and overseas suppliers have been asked to hold back deliveries. Yet, instead of joy, there is widespread uneasiness arid confusion. Why do food prices keep on rising, when there seems to be so much more food about Is the abundance only temporary, or has it come to stay Does it mean that we need to think less now about producing more food at home No one knows what to expect.
The recent growth of export-surpluses on the world food market has certainly been unexpectedly great, partly because a strange sequence of two successful grain harvests in North America is now being followed by a third. Most of Britain’s overseas suppliers of meat, too, are offering more this and home production has also risen.
But the effect of all this on the food situation in this country has
A. the fall in world food prices would benefit British food producers
B. an expansion of food production was at hand
C. British food producers would receive more government financial support
D. it looks depressing despite government guarantees
Passage One
Long time ago, the ancient people could not travel to any faraway places for they had no instruments to carry them across the wide oceans, the deep valleys, long rivers or the high mountains.
Nowadays men take advantage of steamships, trains, airplanes for modern bridges. Airplanes can carry us to the far countries in a short time; steamships can travel across the wide oceans. It is convenient to the modern people.
Travelling is a good idea to us because we can get more knowledge about, such as the custom, the geography of other countries. And the people could travel among the different countries in the world. For it is easy to travel from the land by trains, or from the sea by ships.
We learnt that the Italian who made the world larger was Mr. Christopher Columbus. He was a brave man. Up to the middle of the 15th century, the people were afraid of travelling because they believed it was a dangerous thing.
There is a sayi
A. it is interesting
B. it is cheaper than to go in any other way
C. it can cross the wide oceans
D. it takes less time
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