The market is a concept. If you are growing tomatoes in your backyard for sale you are producing for the market. You might sell

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问题     The market is a concept. If you are growing tomatoes in your backyard for sale you are producing for the market. You might sell some to your neighbor and some to the manager of the local supermarket. But in either case, you are producing for the market. Your efforts are being directed by the market. If people stop buying tomatoes, you will stop producing them.
    If you take care of a sick person to earn money, you are producing for the market. If your father is a steelworker or a taxi driver or a doctor or a grocer, he is producing goods or service for the market.
    When you spend your income, you are buying things from the market. You may spend money in stores, supermarkets and gas stations. Still you are buying from the market. When the local grocer hires you to drive the delivery truck, he is buying your labor in the labor market.
    The market may seem to be something abstract. But for each person or businessman who is making and selling something, it is concrete. If nobody buys your tomatoes, it won’t be long before you get the message. The market is telling you something. It’ s telling you that you are using energies and resources in doing something the market doesn’ t want you to do.
You are buying from the market when you_____.

选项 A、borrow a book from a library
B、look after your children
C、drive to the seaside for a holiday
D、treat a friend to dinner at a restaurant

答案D

解析 事实细节题。根据第三段第一句“When you spend your income,you are buying things from the market.”可知,花钱是从市场上买东西,选项D“在餐厅招待朋友”是需要花钱的,所以选D。
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