A. those young people who talk of the village as being “dead” are wrong 

B the two statements are against each other 

C. “village life” today is rather uninteresting 

D. “village life” today is no longer like what is used to be. 

7. It was _________ that “village life” began to take a sharp turn. 

A. about a century ago                         

B. during the two world wars 

C. with electricity and motorcars introduced into the village 

D. only recently 

8. As is suggested in paragraph 2, villagers in the past _________ 

A. lived a simpler life than villagers today 

B. knew fewer people than villagers today. 

C. found it difficult to enjoy themselves 

D. liked to wash themselves with cold water. 

9. The expression “.... ” There is no point whatever in talking about in paragraph 3 means that _________ 

A. there is no end to the talking about.... 

B. It is harmful to talk about…. 

C. It is not meaningless to talk about.... 

D. there is no reason for

talking about        

10. From the passage we can see that the writer’s attitude toward “village life” is __________ 

A. positive   B. negative  C. neutral   D. unclear 

Passage 3

The market investigation is indispensable to sales promotion. They are closely related as the lips and teeth, so to speak. What you produce is for sale on the market. It would be impossible to succeed in selling a product without first investigating the market.

　　In the international market, goods on sale coming from different countries and suppliers are always facing keen competition. Under such circumstances, they will try everything possible to familiarize themselves with the market conditions. In making investigations, we ought to get information about what similar items the competitors are offering on the market, what prices they are quoting (报价), what features their products have, who are their regular customers, etc. Then, how can we obtain such information?

There are many channels that we can make use of in doing this sort of work. The commercial counselor's offices of our embassies stationed abroad can help us in making market investigations. Nowadays, our import and export corporations send their trade groups abroad every now and then. One of their purposes is to make market surveys on the spot.

Certainly, face-to-face talks with foreign businessmen are also important channels to get market information. The Chinese Export Commodities Fairs and some other fairs of similar nature as well as visits of foreign businessmen provide us with such opportunities. Of course, there are some other ways of making market investigations.

11. In making market investigation , one should_________.

A. get enough information concerned            B. advertise his products

C. produce high quality goods