Passage 8

　　The American government, as well as every American, is touched by and concerned with inflation, and President Carter has called it our NO.1 problem.

　　The great jump in inflation has been during the past 10 years. Looking at the raw figures, people might consider this a time of prosperity. The wage of the average worker was $114 a week in 1969, and by September 1978 it had reached$206. On the surface it might seem that people are better off, but taking into consideration the effects of inflation, the picture is different.

　　In 1976 the consumer price index stood at 100 and it has now topped 200. Allowing for this, the average wage of workers was$104 in 1969 and $105 in April 1978. Since then with more inflation any gains in purchasing power has been wiped out and more taken away. In fact during the year of 1978, the buying power of the average paycheck had fallen by 3.4 percent. In addition to the income tax, there are usually state and country taxes, and in nearly all American communities, as in most of western Europe, there is a point of purchase tax, the sales tax, that is added to the cost of an item at the retail level. This is another tax that has been increasing with inflation, and it affects all purchasers.

　　Questions 27 to 29 are based on the passage you've just heard.

　　27. What does the article say about inflation?

　　28. How much will the dollar buy in real goods now compared with 1967?

　　29. What tax is collected from even the poorest citizen?

　　題解：

　　Passage 7

　　短文談到了近來偷車案的增多。這印證了警察們的擔(dān)擾：這些偷車案是有組織的職業(yè)偷車團(tuán)伙所為。大部分的行竊都發(fā)生在Southwell Park周圍的富人居住區(qū)。在上星期就有22起竊車案發(fā)生于此。被盜的車中只有一臺被找到，被遺棄在20英里外的Rockinghill Palace路。另外有一臺車的車主后來承認(rèn)忘記了幾天前停在何處而誤報(bào)了車被竊。有趣的是，這些竊車案幾乎都發(fā)生在上鎖的車庫。一些車主承認(rèn)可能忘記了車入庫后鎖車，但只有一位車主不確定是否鎖了車庫。警察們假定，偷車團(tuán)伙在晚上撬開了車庫，把未上鎖的車偷車或在白天、夜間偷走路邊停的車。警察們提醒車主在車入庫后仍要將車鎖好。

　　23.C 題車查對具體信息的捕獲。短文在開始即談到竊車事件。片面占有信息可造成對選項(xiàng)B的誤選。

　　24.A 本題對細(xì)節(jié)考察。

　　25.D 本題仍考查細(xì)節(jié)。

　　26.C 本題測試獲取特定信息的能力。短文在最后告訴大家"They advise car owners to lock up their cars even when they are kept in locked garages"。