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  3. A market is commonly thought of as a place where commodities are bought and sold. Thus fruit and vegetables are sold wholesale a

A market is commonly thought of as a place where commodities are bought and sold. Thus fruit and vegetables are sold wholesale a

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问题     A market is commonly thought of as a place where commodities are bought and sold. Thus fruit and vegetables are sold wholesale at Covent Garden Market and meat is sold wholesale at Smithfield Market. But there are markets for things【C1】______commodities, in the usual【C2】______. There are【C3】______estate markets, foreign exchange markets, labour markets, short-term capital markets, and so on; there may be a market for anything that has a price. And there may be no particular place to which dealings are【C4】______. Buyers and sellers may be【C5】______over the whole world and instead of actually meeting together in a market-place they may deal with one another【C6】______telephone, telegram, cable or letter.【C7】______dealings are【C8】______to a particular place, the dealers may consist wholly or in part of agents【C9】______instructions from clients far away. Thus agents buy meat at Smithfield【C10】______retail butchers all over England; and【C11】______on the London Stock Exchange buy and sell【C12】______on instructions from clients all over the world. We must therefore define a market as any area over which buyers and sellers are in such close touch with one another, either directly or through【C13】______,【C14】______the prices【C15】______in one part of the market affect the prices paid in other parts.
    Modern means of communication are so rapid that a buyer can discover【C16】______by asking, and can accept it if he wishes,【C17】______he may be thousands of miles away. Thus the market for anything is,【C18】______, the whole world. But in fact things have, normally, only a local or national market.
    This may be because nearly the whole demand is【C19】______in one locality. These special local demands,【C20】______, are of quite minor importance. The main reason why many things have not a world market is that they are costly or difficult to transport.
【C14】
选项 A、which
B、/
C、that
D、but
答案C
解析 篇章题。篇章结构题。分析本句的结构可看出空格后为一个从句，而前面又有such出现，因此可判断出为such…that的表达，意为“联系如此紧密，以至于……”，其间插入了一个插入语，对句意进行补充说明。which不能与such连用表达此意。but表转折，这里没有转折之意。如空缺，such 不能单独引出后面的从句而表达此意。因此，只有that符合题意，为正确答案。
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