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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.
【C3】
选项 A、true
B、genuine
C、real
D、actual
答案C
解析 词汇题。惯用法题。此句列举了各种商品市场，因此空格亦应为某一商品，real estate“房地产”正符合其含义。而其他各选项true“真实的”，genuine“真正的”，actual“实际的”，都只能修饰其后的名词，而不能与estate一起构成商品品种。true主要强调“与事实或现实一致的，不作假的”，如：true grief真正的悲伤／a true prophecy可靠的预言。genuine也有“真的”含义，但指“真正具有所谓的或显然的性质”，如：genuine leather真皮；也可指“真诚的”，如：genuine devotion虔诚的信仰。actual“真实的，现实的”，主要指以事实为基础，如：an actual ac—count of the accident事故的真实报道／in actual life在实际生活中。
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