（浙江省慈溪中学2010届高三第二次月考）
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Prices determine how resources are to be used. They are also the means by which products and services that are in limited supply are rationed among buyers. The price system of the United States is a complex network composed of the prices of all the products bought and sold in the economy as well as those of a myriad众多方面的of services, including labor, professional, transportation, and public-utility services. The interrelationships of all these prices make up the “system” of prices. The price of any particular product or service is linked to a broad, complicated system of prices in which everything seems to depend more or less upon everything else.
If one were to ask a group of randomly selected individuals to define “price”, many would reply that price is an amount of money paid by the buyer to the seller of a product or service or, in other words that price is the money values of a product or service as agreed upon in a market transaction. This definition is, of course, valid as far as it goes. For a complete understanding of a price in any particular transaction, much more than the amount of money involved must be known. Both the buyer and the seller should be familiar with not only the money amount, but with the amount and quality of the product or service to be exchanged, the time and place at which the exchange will take place and payment will be made, the form of money to be used, the credit terms and discounts that apply to the transaction, guarantees on the product or service, delivery terms, return privileges, and other factors. In other words, both buyer and seller should be fully aware of all the factors that comprise the total “package” being exchanged for the asked-for amount of money in order that they may evaluate a given price.
69. According to the first paragraph, what makes up the price system of the US?
A. Labor, professional, transportation, and public-utility有益 services.
B. A complex network composed of the prices of all the products bough and sold in the economy and also those of a myriad of services.
C. Any particular product or service.
D. To depend on “how resources are to be used”.
70. How many factors are there to define “Price”?
A. more than 7 B. more than 8 C. more than 9 D. more than 10
71. Which statement is true according to the passage?
A. Price is an amount of money paid by the buyer to the seller of a product.
B. Price is the money value of a product.
C. Price is not only an amount of money paid by the buyer to the seller of a product or service but the amount and quality of the product and other factors.
D. Price is the asked-for amount of money.
72. What’s the best title of the passage?
A. How Resources are to be Used. B. The Price System
C. The Factors of “Price” D. The Definition of “Price”