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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.
【C16】
选项 A、means
B、method
C、approach
D、way
答案A
解析 词汇题。词义辨析题。几个选项含义相近，都表示“方法”。其中means强调完成或做某事的方式、方法、手段或工具，后面介词常为of，如：The quickest means of travel is by plane．最快的旅行方式是乘飞机。根据本句意思，此处表示“现代通信方式”，因此means符合题意，为正确答案。method强调的是做某事的特定方法或过程中的手段、方式，尤指为完成某事的一个经常性的和系统性的方法，如：a simple method for making a pie crust做馅饼皮的简单方法。approach通常指解决问题或完成某项任务的方法、路子、态度，如：causal approach因果方法／Another member took amore cynical approach．另一名成员采取一种更为愤世嫉俗的态度。way则表示做某事的一般方法，如：There are several ways of solving this problem．解决这个问题有几种办法。相对means来说，way更具一般性，它可包含更具体的措施和手段。way还表示“生活或行为方式”，如：the American way of life美国的生活方式。
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