[单项选择]（）inflation, driven by rising food and oil costs, is striking hardest at the world’s very poor, who are forced to spend 60 to 80 percent of their income on food.
A. Surging
B. Sprouting
C. Spilling
D. Spinning

[单项选择]（　）inflation, driven by rising food and oil costs, is striking hardest at the world’s poorest, who are forced to spend 60 to 80 percent of their income on food.
A. Sprouting
B. Surging
C. Spilling
D. Spinning

[单项选择]Passage ThreeA. Rising fuel costs to limit the use of it. B. Saving energy and use other sources.
C. Having protection against fuel shortage. D. Putting in a solar unit in every house.

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With unemployment rising and housing costs still high, cities around the country are experiencing a new and sudden wave of homelessness. Shelters are overflowing, and more people this year are sleeping on floors in dingy social service centers, living in cars or spending nights on the streets.
In New York, Boston and other cities, homelessness is at record levels, a consequence of a faltering (摇晃的) economy that has crumbled even further after the Sept.11 attacks.
A survey by the U. S. Conference of Mayors released last week found that requests for emergency shelter in 27 cities had increased an average of 13 percent over last year. The report said the increases were 26 percent in Trenton; 25 percent in Kansas City, Mo.; 22 percent in Chicago; 20 percent in Denver; and 20 percent in New Orleans.
An unusual confluence of factors seems to be responsible for the surge. Housing prices, which soared in the expansion of the 1990’s, have not gone down, even
A. Unemployment.
B. Housing prices.
C. Sept.11 attacks.
D. Floods.

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Could the bad old days of economic decline be about to return Since OPEC agreed to sup-ply-cuts in March, the price of crude oil has jumped to almost $ 26 a barrel, up from less than $10 last December. This near-tripling of oil prices calls up scary memories of the 1973 oil shocks resulted in double-digit inflation and global economic decline. So where are the headlines warning of gloom and doom this time
The oil price was given another push up this week when Iraq suspended oil exports. Strengthening economic growth, at the dame time as winter grips the northern hemisphere, could push the price higher still in the short term.
Yet there are good reasons to expect the economic consequences now to be less severe than in the 1970s. In most countries the cost of crude oil now accounts for a smaller share of the price of petrol than it did in the 1970s. In Europe, taxes account for up to four-fifths of the
A. global inflation
B. reduction in supply
C. fast growth in economy
D. Iraq’s suspension of exports

[单项选择]As prices and building costs keep rising, the "do-it-yourself" (DIY) trend (趋势) in the U. S. continues to grow.
"We needed furniture (家具) for our living room," says John Ross, "and we just didn’t have enough money to buy it. So we decided to try making a few tables and chairs. "(76) John got married six months ago, and like many young people these clays, they are struggling to make a home at a time when the cost of living is very high. The Rosses took a two-week course for $280 at a night school. Now they build all their furniture and make repairs around the house.
Jim Hatfield has three boys and his wife died. He has a full-time job at home as well as in a shoemaking factory. Last month, he received a car repair bill for $420. "I was deeply upset about it. Now I’ve finished a car repair course. I should be able to fix the car by my-self. "
John and Jim are not unusual people. In order to save money, most families in the country are doing everything they can so that the
A. find it hard to pay for what they need
B. have to learn to make their own furniture
C. take DIY courses run by the government
D. seldom go to a department store to buy things

[填空题]Thermic effect of food costs you ______ of all the calories you consume in a day.