Question

 Most American students have said goodbye to fancy(高檔的) fruits these days. In school canteens across the country, 1 fruits like apples and oranges have taken their place.

"People are afraid 2 now," said Linda Morrow, who owns a shoe and handbag store. "They don't know what the future will 3 ”

   4 the financial crisis(金融危機) ，several of the country's biggest banks have been forced to sell or close. This has made lots of Americans 5 to buy expensive goods.

  Samira Marino, a restaurant owner in Miami, has found everyone is  6  water instead of juice and more people are sharing meals. In more than two-dozen interviews with The Associated Press 7 the country last month, Americans talked about their concerns, 8worries about small businesses to doubts(懷疑) about simply making ends meet(維持生計) .

  The crisis began last year. Experts think it was because US banks 9 money too easily. Last year a lot of people and companies，who borrowed money，have found themselves unable to 10 it back. This left the banks, as well as the people who put their money in the banks, without money. Since the banks borrowed money between themselves and even across borders(國界) ，the whole world was 11

  This month the US government 12 a $ 700 billion plan to try to save the financial market. But no one is 13 whether it will help or not. President George W. Bush has warned it will take  14         .

  Last week top finance officials from 20 countries promised to work together to find a way  15         the money trouble.

(   ) 1. A. cheaper    B. cheap    C. expensive    D. more expensive

(   ) 2. A. spend    B. spending    C. to spend    D. of spending

(   ) 3. A. take    B. to bring    C. mean    D. bring

(   ) 4. A. For    B. To    C. During    D. On

(   ) 5. A. want    B. to be afraid C afraid    D. being afraid

(   ) 6. A. ordering    B. drinking    C. asking    D. order

(   ) 7. A. across    B. of    C. over    D. at

(   ) 8. A. between    B. from    C. with    D. have

(   ) 9. A. lending    B. giving    C. lend    D. give

(   ) 10. A. pay    B. get    C. arrive    D. take

(   ) 11. A. afraid    B. all right    C. wrong    D. in trouble

(   ) 12. A. agreed with    B. agreed on    C. won    D. agreed to

(   ) 13. A. sure    B. know    C. worried    D. afraid

(   ) 14. A. no time    B. some time    C. some times    D. sometimes

(   ) 15. A. out of    B. out    C. from    D. to

Answer 1

 1. A 2. C 3. D這一題是動詞的辨析，take表示"帶走"，bring表示"帶來"。

 4.C 5. A make sb. do sth.，是固定搭配。make后跟不帶to的動詞不定式作賓語補足語。

  6. A這里要根據(jù)上下文的意思來判斷，Samira Marino是一家餐館的老板，所以這里選擇ordering更合適。order在這里表示"定購"

  7. A這里across the country相當(dāng)于all over the country,表示"全國各地"。   

  8. B 9. C lend 表示借出。10. A 

 11. D be in trouble表示"處于困境之中"。

 12. B這里是動詞短語的辨析， agree with...表示"同意某人的意見"，agree on...表示"在某一點上取得一致意見"，agree to do...表示"同意去做"。

 13. A 14. B 

15. A這里find a way out of the money trouble意指找到走出金融危機的出路。