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• 1The writer appreciates the village shop because____.

  A.he welcomes competition with organized business

  B.he likes the ides that a humble person can be successful

  C.this is a case of individual success in a world of increasing

  D.he welcomes an example of private enterprise surviving in an age of giant companies

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• 2The writer implies that one disadvantage of town shops is that____.

  A.their prices are higher

  B.people cannot telephone them

  C.their staff may take less trouble to satisfy customers

  D.one has to queue up in them

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• 3The local grocer’s shop is expanding even though____.

  A.women spend a lot of their time there just gossiping

  B.town shops are larger and rather cheaper

  C.people like to shop where they are less well-known

  D.people get personal service in his shop

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• 4The writer considered the old country guide interesting because he found in it____.

  A.the names of so many of the shops in the village around

  B.the many people selling to, and doing jobs for, residents in local villages at the time it appeared

  C.the variety of shops and services available in Victorian days in Britain

  D.information about all the jobs there were in his own and surrounding villages at the time it appeared

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• 5The passage indicates that eventually everyone involved came to regard the publication of the story in The Times as a____.

  A.regrettable error

  B.cheap journalistic trick

  C.brilliant journalistic maneuver

  D.proper exercise of the freedom of the press

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• 6The author uses the term “lifeblood" (line 1) to indicate that wheatwas____.

  A.difficult to produce in large quantities

  B.susceptible to many parasites

  C.essential to the health of the country

  D.expensive to gather and transport

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• 7According to the passage, most farmers’ debts had to be paid____.

  A.when the autumn harvest had just been completed 

  B.because wheat prices were high

  C.as soon as the Winnipeg Grain Exchange demanded payment

  D.when crop failure caused depression

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• 8According to the passage, wheat prices became unmanageable because of conditions caused by____.

  A.farmers

  B.supervisors

  C.weather

  D.war

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• 9In line 11, the word “check” could best be replaced by which of the following、

  A.control

  B.investigate

  C.finance

  D.reinforce

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• 10According to the passage, a preliminary step in the creation of the Canadian Wheat Board was the appointment of____.

  A.the Winnipeg Grain Exchange

  B.a board of supervisors

  C.several producer groups

  D.a new government

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