历年考研阅读真题.doc

考研英语阅读理解电子教材 （历年考研真题） 满招损，谦受益，时乃天道。考研英语阅读理解电子教材 0 Unit 1(1994) 2 Unit 2（1995） 8 Unit 3（1996） 15 Unit 4（1997） 23 Unit 5（1998） 30 Unit 6（1996） 38 Unit 7 （2010） 46 Unit 8（2001） 54 Unit 9（2002） 62 Unit 10 (2003) 69 Unit 11（2004） 76 Unit 12 （2005年真题） 83 Unit 13 （2006年真题） 89 Unit 14 （2007年真题） 96 Unit 15 （2008年真题） 103 Unit 16 （2009年真题） 110 Unit 17 （2010年真题） 117 答 案 124 Unit 1(1994) Passage 1 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 marketplace 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 businessmen to maximize 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 sellerproducers. 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 seller-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-