《高等学校英语应用能力考试模拟试题及其攻略(B级)》既可作为广大高等学校英语应用能力考试A级考生平时测试和训练之用，但更主要的目的是作为考生进行考前全面总结、强化训练、综合测试的理想“热身”教材，亦即广大考生考试前发力冲刺的“助推器”。
本试题册编写安排有如下特点：1.每套题各编写成独立的页码，便于学生和老师教学单独做题测试时方便使用；2.每套题都附有答案及其分析，不仅给予了答案，还分析了理由，即指出了每道题的考点和类似结构，提出了注意要点和解答此类题的技巧，既让学生知其然，又让学生知其所以然，高屋建瓴，解题时触类旁通，得心应手；3.答案同时还附有听力文字材料并匹配录音带（盘）。
经过几年师生两届学生的使用证明，广州航海高等专科学校外语系教师编写的高等学校英语应用能力考试模拟试题集，无论是学生用之作为对所学知识的自我评估一温故知新，抑或准备参加高等学校英语应用能力B级考试，他们都受益匪浅。
根据教师和学生使用本试题册后的反馈，第二版做了以下修改：查满补缺。改正原版印刷上的错误；更换了一些对考B级的学生来说难度较大的句子和语法内容；遵循由易到难的原则，对部分题目进行了一些调整。
在编写过程中，特别要感谢广州航海高等专科学校外语系领导的指导、督促和大力支持，感谢兄弟院校英语教师们的鼓励和褒奖，感谢其他专家学者所提供的成果与资料（我们在主要参考文献中列出），感谢同行帮助，最终使该书得以成功完成。
一套试题集要经过不断的实践应用，不断修改，才能成为一套优秀的教学辅助资料。由于时间紧，任务重，虽经修改，本试题册难免还存在不足之处，希望应用者不惜赐教。希望老师们和同学们在应用本试题集中发现有不妥之处，请及时反馈给广州航海高等专科学校外语系，以便我们收集资料并对该试题册作进一步的修改。
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There are stock markets in large cities in many countries. Stock markets in Paris, Lon- don, Tokyo, Shanghai and New York are among the largest and most well-known. The stock market, also called stock exchange, is a place where people can buy or soil shares of a factory or company.
Different people go to stock markets. Some are rich, who want to get more money than they have. Others are not very rich, who buy stocks and try to become rich. Still others buy stocks as part of their plan to save money.
Of course, investing money in the stock market is not the safest way to make money. No one can tell exactly whether the shares will be doing well. The factory or company may do bad- ly. Then the stocks will go down, and investors will lose money. The stock may go up, but sometimes even if a factory or company does a good job, the stock may still go down.
No wonder going to the stock market is often compared to gambling. All are eager to make money by " gambling" in the stock market. Factories and companies that need money are pleased that so many people are willing to "gamble". Indeed, the stock market is an attractive and complex part of the business world.
