larger．In America，soft drinks came in 80z(225g)cans in the past，then 120z(350g)，and now come in 200z(550g)calls．If a company can sell you an 80z portion for$7，they can sell you a 120z portion for$8．The only extra cost to the company is the food，which Drobably costs 25 cents．
　　5 Now companies are under pressure to stop selling bigger portions for less money．But it is hard to change the trend．
　　
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　　26．Paragraph 4__________
　　27．Big supermarkets can offer food at lower prices because they can buy in__________.
　　28．Some food producers have reduced__________．
　　29．Besides cutting its cost，Unilever also abandoned its__________．
　　30．Buyers like bigger portion because they think they have got__________．
　　

第4部分：阅读理解(第31～45题，每题3分，共45分)
　　下面有3篇短文，每篇短文后有5道题。请根据短文内容，为每题确定1个最佳选项。

第一篇Oseola McCarty

　　Late one Sunday afternoon in September 1999，Oseola McCarty，an elderly cleaning lady passed away in the little wooden frame house where she had lived and worked most of her life．It mav seem like an ordinary end to a humble life，but there was something quite exceptional about this woman．
　　In the summer of 1995，McCarty gave$1 50，000，most of the money she had saved throughout her life，to the University of Southern Mississippi in her hometown．The money was to help other African Americans through university．She had started her savings habit as a young child when she would
　　return from school to clean and iron for money which she would then save．
　　She led a simple，frugal existence，never spending on anything but her most basic needs．Her bank also advised her on investing her hard—earned savings．
　　When she retired，she decided that she wanted to use the money to give children of limited means the opportunity to go to university．She had wanted to become a nurse，but had to leave school to look after ill relatives and work．When asked why she had given her life savings away，she replied，“I’m giving it away so that children won’t have to work so hard，like I did．”After news of her donation hit the media，over 600 donations were made to the scholarship fund．One was given by media executive，Ted Turner，who reputedly gave a billion dollars．She didn’t want any fuss made over her gift，but the news got out and she was invited all over the United States to talk to people．Wherever she went，people would come up to her to say a few words or to just touch her．She met the ordinary and the famous，President Clinton included．In the last few years of her life，before she died of cancer，McCarty was given over 300 awards：she was honoured by the United Nations and received the Presidential Citizen’s Medal．Despite having no real education，she found herself with two honorary doctorates：one from the University of Southern Mississippi and the other from Harvard University．Her generosity was clearly an inspiration to many and proof that true selflessness does exist．
　　31．This woman shocked and inspired the world because__________．
　　A．she had managed to save so much money
　　B．she gave her money to African Americans
　　C．she gave her life savings to help others through university
　　D．she only spent money on cheap things
　　32．She managed to save so much money because__________．
　　A．she had ironed and washed clothes all her life
　　B．she had worked hard，saved hard and invested carefully
　　C．she had opened a good bank account
　　D．she knew how to make money
　　33．She gave her money away because__________．
　　A．she wanted to help the university
　　B．she wanted others to have the chance to become nurses
　　C．she wanted others to have the opportunity to escape a hard life
　　D．she want to be remembered after her death
　　34．When her generosity was made__________．
　　A．people donated billions
　　B．hundreds of students got scholarships
　　C．hundreds of people put money into the fund
　　D．she was sent to university
　　35．Marcarty’s generosity indicates clearly that__________．
　　A．scholarship funds are popular in US
　　B．kind-hearted people deserves doctorates
　　C．selflessness exists in human society
　　D．poor people can donate as much as rich people
　　D．poor people can donate as much as rich people
第二篇From Ponzi to Madoff

　　The year was 1920．The country was the United States of America．The man’s name was Charles Ponzi．Ponzi told people to stop depositing money in a savings account．Instead，they should give it to him to save for them．Ponzi promised to pay them more than the bank．For example，a savings account might pay you$5 a year for every$1 00 you deposit．Ponzi，however，would pay you $40 a year for every $1 00 you gave him to hold．Many people thought this was a good plan．They began to give their money to Ponzi．
　　How could Ponzi make so much money for people? This is what he did with the money people gave him：He used some of that money to pay other people who gave him money．However，he also kept a lot of the money for himself．Soon he had $250 million．This was a kind of theft，and it was against the law．The people who gave him their money didn’t think anything was wrong．Ponzi paid them every month，just like a bank．Ponzi continued this way of working for two years．Then one day，
　　he didn’t have enough money to pay all the people．They discovered his crime，and he went to prison for froud．
　　Ninety years later，people began to hear about a businessman in New York named Bernard Mad off．People said he gave good advice about money．They said when they gave him their money，he paid them a lot more than the bank．Mad off helped hospitals，schools，and individuals earn money．Over a period of 40 years，people gave him$1 70 billion．However，no one investigated what he did with the
　　money．The people who gave Mad off their money also didn’t think anything was wrong because he paid them every month．
　　One day，Mad off didn’t have enough money to pay all the people he needed to pay．That’s when people discovered how Madoff worked：He was taking money from some people to pay other people， just the way Charles Ponzi did．However，this time，