2015考研英语新题型模拟试题：七选五/填空式阅读（2）

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新题型，作为考研英语阅读理解的第二部分，从本质上来讲，新题型就是阅读理解。因此大家在阅读中采取的方法也可以作为新题型的解题策略。2015考研初试在即，考研临考前建议大家做几套模拟试题，熟悉考场的感觉。新东方在线分享：2015考研英语新题型模拟试题：七选五/填空式阅读（2）。
    In 1959 the average American family paid $ 989 for a year’s supply of food.
In 1972 the family paid $1,311. That was a price increase of nearly one –third.
Every family has had this sort of experience. Everyone agrees that the cost of
feeding a family has risen sharply. But there is less agreement when reasons for
the rise are being discussed. Who is really responsible?
    Many blame the farmers who produce the vegetables, fruit, meat, eggs, and
cheese that stores offer for sale. According to the U.S. Department of
Agriculture, the farmer’s share of the $1,311 spent by the family in 1972 was
$521. This was 31 percent more than the farmer had received in 1959.
    But farmers claim that this increase was very small compared to the
increase in their cost of living. Farmers tend to blame others for the sharp
rise in food prices. They particularly blame those who process the farm products
after the products leave the farm. These include truck drivers, meat packers,
manufacturers of packages and other food containers, and the owners of stores
where food is sold. 41) __________.
    Of the $1,311 family food bill in 1972, middlement received $ 790, which
was 33 percent more than they had received in 1959. It appears that the
middlemen’s profit has increased more than farmer’s. But some economists claim
that the middleman’s actual profit was very law. According to economists at the
First National City Bank, the profit for meat packers and food stores amounted
to less than one per cent. During the same period all other manufacturers were
making a profit of more than 5 per cent.42) __________ .
    43) __________ .
    Vegetables and chicken cost more when they have been cut into pieces by
someone other than the one who buys it. A family should expect to pay more when
several “TV dinners” are taken home from the store. These are fully cooked
meals, consisting of meat, vegetables, and sometimes desert, all arranged on a
metal dish. The dish is put into the over and heated while the housewife is
doing something else. Such a convenience costs money. 44) __________.
    Economists remind us many modern housewives have jobs outside the home.
They earn money that helps to pay the family food bills. The housewife naturally
has less time and energy for cooking after a day’s work. She wants to buy many
kinds of food that can be put on her family’s table easily and quickly. 45)
__________ .
    It appears that the answer to the question for rising prices is not a
simple one. Producers, consumers, and middlemen all share the responsibility for
the sharp rise in food costs.
    A) Thus, as economists point out:” Some of the basic reasons for widening
food price spreads are easily traceable to the increasing use of convenience
foods, which transfer much of the time and work of meal preparation from the
kitchen to the food processor’s plant.”
    B) They are among the “middlemen” who stand between the farmer and the
people who buy and eat the food. Are middlemen the ones to blame for rising food
prices?
    C) “If the housewife wants all of these.” The economists say, “that is her
privilege, but she must be prepared to pay for the services of the those who
make her work easier.”
    D) Who then is actually responsible for the size of the bill a housewife
must pay before she carries the food home from the store? The economists at
First National City Bank have an answer to give housewives, but many people will
not like it. These economists blame the housewife herself for the jump in food
prices. They say that food costs more now because women don’t want to spend much
time in the kitchen. Women prefer to buy food which has already been prepared
before it reaches the market.
    E) However, some economists believe that controls can have negative effects
over a long period of time. In cities with rent control, the city government
sets the maximum rent that a landlord can charge for an apartment.
    F) Economists do not agree on some of the predictions. They also do not
agree on the value of different decisions. Some economists support a particular
decision while others criticize it.
    G) By comparison with other members of the economic system both farmers and
middlemen have profited surprisingly little from the rise in food prices.
   
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