閱讀理解。
     請(qǐng)認(rèn)真閱讀下列短文，并根據(jù)所讀內(nèi)容在文章后表格中的空格里填入最恰當(dāng)?shù)膯卧~。注意：每空1
個(gè)單詞。
     The farm economy of the United States has changed a lot in the last seventy years. In the 1930s,
twenty-five percent of the nation's population lived on farms. Today less than one percent of Americans do.
     Farm incomes have changed over the years too. For example, in 1933, people living and working on
farms had much less money to spend than other Americans. At that time, farm families had about one-third
the income of non-farmers after all necessary expenses had been paid. By the late 1970s, however, that
difference had almost disappeared. In 2004,farmers had their best year ever. The average farm family earned
about eighty-one thousand dollars. That is more than the average American family, which earned about sixty
thousand dollars.
     The Department of Labor measures the pay of industrial workers differently. It measures the average
hourly and weekly pay for industrial workers. This is because factory workers are generally paid by the hour
unlike farmers who earn income from their farm businesses. Generally, the average hourly pay for all industrial
workers is about sixteen dollars. And the average weekly pay, about five hundred fifty dollars. Industrial and
other services employ about eighty-six percent of the labor force.
1. Incomes 2. 1970s 3. Changes 4. one-third 5. 21,000 / twenty-one thousand
6. labor  7. 80%  8. pay  9. week  10. 16 / sixteen
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閱讀理解。
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B. 10000 yuan
C. 7000 yuan
D. It's not mentioned here
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C. The houses in US are not sold in terms of building area, as most Chinese property developers do when they
     sell their houses.
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A. Four
B. Three
C. Two
D. One
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A. The housing price in China is so high that the government should do something useful to prevent it.
B. There are some bubbles in Chinese real estate market.
C. The average housing price in China is even higher than in the United States.
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still a child. At high school, he became very interested in computer programming and after graduating
from Tuft University in 1988, he worked for the next few years as a computer engineer. In his free time
he started Bay as a kind of hobby, at first offering the service free by word of mouth. By 1996 there was
so much traffic on the website that he had to upgrade (升級(jí)) and he began charging a fee to members.
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of the ten most visited online shopping websites on the Internet.
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to do is uploading an e-photo, writing a description, filling out a sales form and you are in business: the
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China.
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jeans. Thankfully, we can get all these anywhere in India now. 
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     I dutifully bought a big packet of Longjing and headed home to hear the story. My mother and her
brother, both regular newspaper readers, believed that Chinese green tea was the wonder drug for all
illnesses.
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country. 
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And everyone is talking about China. The govemment of Indin has planned to send a team to China to
see how things are done. A minister once said that India must open the doors for more foreign
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countries started on January 1 the Sino-Indian Friendship Year. But what is still a wonder to me is
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[     ]
A. she had a son working in China
B. she believed it had a curing effect
C. she enjoyed Chinese products
D. she was tired of Indian tea
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[     ]
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[     ]
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B. the author was in favor of drinking Chinese green tea
C. the author was surprised at China's recent development
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