问题 完形填空
阅读下面短文,从短文后各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
In the United States there was an unusual story telling of the daughter of an engineer.One day 36 walking along the bank of a lake, the girl happened to see 20 eggs laid by a wild goose.After some time the girl_37_the mother would not return to the eggs and she  38 to take them home.There she carefully  39 the eggs in the heat of a lamp.Several days  40 , the eggs broke and the baby geese came into the  41 Geese are known to take the first living thing 42 they see as their mother.Thus, to these  43 geese, the girl was their mother.
As they grew, the girl was able to  44 her birds to run across the grass, but she could not teach, them to _45_.The little girl became increasingly worried about this, both when  46 and in her dreams.Suddenly, she thought_47_a clever idea: she would fly a plane to guide them in 48 .She asked her father for a plane and he made a small one for her.Caring about  49 safety, the father Hew the plane himself.However, the birds didn't  50 him.They all slept in the grass 51 .      
The girl was so worried about it that one day the girl_52_into the plane and started it.Soon the plane left the_53_.Seeing their mother in the air, the birds 54 expanded their wings and   55  She flew the plane freely in the sky, with her young birds following.
小题1:
A.sinceB.afterC.whileD.because
小题2:
A.realizedB.expectedC.imaginedD.admitted
小题3:
A.helpedB.decided C.affordedD.agreed
小题4:
A.placedB.protected C.treatedD.examined
小题5:
A.agoB.outC.laterD.long
小题6:
A.familyB.houseC.homeD.world
小题7:
A.what B.which C.thatD.who
小题8:
A.greatB.bigC.shyD.young
小题9:
A.askB.leadC.wantD.allow
小题10:
A.flyB.raceC.swimD.sing
小题11:
A.asleepB.awayC.aroundD.awake
小题12:
A.ofB.throughC.overD.back
小题13:
A.skyB.heavenC.flightD.plane
小题14:
A.hisB.herC.theirD.its
小题15:
A.respectB.rememberC.followD.receive
小题16:
A.sadlyB.insteadC.hardlyD.too
小题17:
A.climbedB.lookedC.droveD.fell
小题18:
A.houseB.floorC.waterD.ground
小题19:
A.secretlyB.disappointedlyC.patientlyD.immediately
小题20:
A.looked awayB.set outC.went byD.turned back
答案

小题1:C

小题2:A

小题3:B

小题4:A

小题5:C

小题6:D

小题7:C

小题8:D

小题9:B

小题10:A

小题11:D

小题12:A

小题13:C

小题14:B

小题15:C

小题16:B

小题17:A

小题18:D

小题19:D

小题20:B

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"You are not here to tell me what to do. You are here to tell me why I have done what I have already decided to do," Montagu Norman, the Bank of England’s longest-serving governor (1920-1944), is reputed to have once told his economic adviser. Today, thankfully, central banks aim to be more transparent in their decision making, as well as more rational. But achieving either of these things is not always easy. With the most laudable of intentions, the Federal Reserve, America’s central bank, may be about to take a step that could backfire.

Unlike the Fed, many other central banks have long declared explicit inflation targets and then set interest rates to try to meet these. Some economists have argued that the Fed should do the same. With Alan Greenspan, the Fed’s much-respected chairman, due to retire next year—after a mere 18 years in the job—some Fed officials want to adopt a target, presumably to maintain the central bank’s credibility in the scary new post-Greenspan era. The Fed discussed such a target at its February meeting, according to minutes published this week. This sounds encouraging. However, the Fed is considering the idea just when some other central banks are beginning to question whether strict inflation targeting really works.

At present central banks focus almost exclusively on consumer-price indices. On this measure Mr. Greenspan can boast that inflation remains under control. But some central bankers now argue that the prices of assets, such as houses and shares, should also somehow be taken into account. A broad price index for America which includes house prices is currently running at 5.5%, its fastest pace since 1982. Inflation has simply taken a different form.

Should central banks also try to curb increases in such asset prices Mr. Greenspan continues to insist that monetary policy should not be used to prick asset-price bubbles. Identifying bubbles is difficult, except in retrospect, he says, and interest rates are a blunt weapon: an increase big enough to halt rising prices could trigger a recession. It is better, he says, to wait for a housing or stock market bubble to burst and then to cushion the economy by cutting interest rates—as he did in 2001-2002.

And yet the risk is not just that asset prices can go swiftly into reverse. As with traditional inflation, surging asset prices also distort price signals and so can cause a misallocation of resources—encouraging too little saving, for example, or too much investment in housing. Surging house prices may therefore argue for higher interest rates than conventional inflation would demand. In other words, strict inflation targeting—the fad of the 1990s—is too crude.

It is implied in the fourth paragraph that Mr. Greenspan is skeptical of()

A. the stipulation of anti-monopoly rules and regulations

B. the intervention by central banks in asset prices

C. the prevention of economic recession

D. the countdown by the Federal Reserve of new economic upheavals