prices, too, are falling. Consumers are beginning to ask why they should not be
enabled to benefit form this trend.
35. The Res of Farmers Fear
The significance of these developments is not lost on farmers. The
older generation have seen it all happen before. Despite the present price and
market guarantees, farmers fear they are about to be squeezed between cheap
food imports and a shrinking home market. Present production is running at 51
per cent above pre-war levels, and the government has called for an expansion
to 60 per cent by 1956; but repeated Ministerial (内阁的) advice is carrying
little weight and the expansion programme is not working very well. 第五部分 阅读理解 (120分)
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There are striking differences between financial markets on the
Continent of Europe on the one hand, and in Britain on the other. In Britain,
the market is really the City of London. It is a free market: and it controls
most of the flow of savings to investment. On the Continent, either a few banks
or government institutions dominate the money markets. In France and Italy, for
example, government bureaucrats (官僚) direct the flow of funds to suit their
economic plans. In Germany the flow is directed by the all-powerful banks. In
Britain there is more free interplay (相互作用) of market forces and far fewer
regulations, rules and "red tape". A French banker summed it up this way : " On
the Continent you can’t do anything unless you’ve been old you can; in England
on the other hand you can do everything as long as you haven’t been told not
to."
There are many basic reasons for these differences. One is that |
