公共英语考试

【单选题】In 1959 the averageAmerican 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 are stored for sale.According to the USDepartment ofAgriculture, the farmer’s share of the $1 311 spent by the family in 1972 was $ 521. This was thirty-one 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、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
Of the $1 311 family food bill in 1972, middlemen received $ 790, which was thirty-three percent more than they had received in 1959. It appears that the middleman’s profit has increased more than the farmer’s.But some economists claim that the middlemen’s actual profit was very low.According to economists at the First NationalCityBank, the profit for meat packers and food stores amounted to less than one percent.During the same period all other manufacturers were making a profit of more than five percent.By comparison with other members of the economic system, both farmers and middlemen have profited surprisingly little from the rise in food prices.
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 NationalCityBank 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.
For the middlemen, ______.

A、they make more profit than factories owners

B、they make as much profit as farmers
C、their profit is less than presumed
D、they are surprisingly rich
网考网参考答案：C
网考网解析：
分析推理题。文章第三段分析的是“中间人”是否是使价格上涨的原因这一问题。通读全段可知，尽管他们从价格上涨中获得了利润，但一些经济学家认为其实际利润很低，而由该段后面几句尤其是最后一句中的(have profited) surprisingly little (from the rise in food prices)可以看出，他们利润之低令人惊讶，与[C]的意思是一致的。 document.getElementById("warp").style.display="none"; document.getElementById("content").style.display="block"; 查看试题解析出处>>