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Passage 1    The example of Italy is the one that troubles Europeans most. In the midst of a soul-destroying political crisis, Italian voters reached not just to the right but to the spiritual descendants of Mussolini to rescue their nation. These new politicians reject any direct fascist connection. Today's National Alliance says it is not interested in the authoritarian leadership and bombastic nationalism of the old fascists but in tougher jail sentences, job creation and limits on immigration.     The most polished of the new breed is Gianfranco Fini, 42, who deftly transformed the once frankly neofascist Italian Social Movement, founded in 1946, and unabashed guardian of Mussolini's legacy into the right-wing National Alliance. The party, which won 13.5% of the votes in parliamentary elections in March, shares power in the right-of-center coalition government of millionaire-businessman Silvio Berlusconi. A politician of intentionally moderate language, Fini has labored to rid his party of its World War Ⅱ ties - but not always with success. Last April La Stampa roused a furor when it quoted him as calling Mussolini the "greatest statesman of the century". He complained that the interviewer put words in his mouth but still considers joining forces with Hitler to have been Mussolini's main mistake. That, he says, "ruined fascism".     Fini says the word "fascism" is misapplied to his party. "If we were in US, we'd be called Republicans," he declares, "In France we'd be Gaullists." He believes the Italians who support him are voting issues - jobs, health care, crime - not ideology. "There isn't one Italian in a hundred who would ask me about fascism, racial laws and Nazis," he says. The neofascist label, he insists, was unfairly tagged to his party by the press and his political opponents. 1. The main content of this passage is about ____.[A]  why Italian voters vote for right-wing party[B]  how right-wing party pretends to cease connection with fascists[C]  what Fini's view was on his party's policy[D]  what National Alliance intends to do【参考答案】：B 2. Which of the following is true about National Alliance?____[A]  It has no connection with fascists.[B]  It is the Republican in Italy.[C]  Its power in parliament is too small.[D]  Voters hope it can solve social problems as it says.【参考答案】：D 3. The word "deftly" (Para 2) means ____.[A]  stupidly[B]  awkwardly[C]  swiftly[D]  horribly【参考答案】：C 4. The word "furor" (Para 2) means ____.[A]  humor[B]  joke[C]  happiness[D]  anger【参考答案】：D 5. Which of the following is true about Fini?____[A]  He created National Alliance.[B]  He tried to reduce the color of fascist of his party.[C]  He hated Mussolini.[D]  He was tough on his language.【参考答案】：B  题 6 - 10 Passage 2    The American economic system is organized around a basically private enterprise, market-oriented economy in which consumers largely determine what shall be produced by spending their money in the market place for those goods and services that they want most. Private businessmen, striving to make profits, produce these goods and services in competition with other businessmen; and the profit motive, operating under competitive pressures, largely determines how these goods and services are produced. Thus, in the American economic system it is the demand of individual consumers, coupled with the desire of businessman to maximized profits and the desire of individuals to maximize their incomes, that together determine what shall be produced and how resources are used to produce it.      An important factor in a market-oriented economy is the mechanism by which consumer demands can be expressed and responded to by producers. In the American economy, this mechanism is provided by a price system, a process in which prices rise and fall in response to relative demands of consumers and supplies offered by seller producers. If the product is in short supply relative to the demand, the price will be bid up and some consumers will be eliminated from the market. If, on the other hand, producing more of a commodity results in reducing its cost, this will tend to increase the supply offered by sellers or producers, which in turn will lower the price and permit more consumers to buy the product. Thus, price is the regulating mechanism in the American economic system.     The important factor in a private-enterprise economy is that individuals are allowed to own productive resources ( private property ), and they are permitted to hire labor, gain control over natural resources, and produce goods and services for sale at a profit. In the American economy, the concept of private property embraces not only the ownership of productive resources but also certain rights, including the right to determine the price of a product or to make a free contract with another private individual. 6. The phrase "the d。