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Passage Three
Questions 32 to 35 are based on the passage you have just heard.

A.It is affecting our health seriously.
B.It hinders our reading and writing.
C.It is changing our bodies as well as our culture.
D.It surprises people with unexpected messages.
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scale [听力原文]CF-DF Large companies need a way to reach the savings of the public at large. The same problem, on a smalle scale faces practically every company trying to develop new products and create new jobs. There can be little prospect of raising the sort of sums needed from friends and people we know, and while hanks may agree to provide short-term finance , they are generally unwilling to provide money’ on a permanent basis for long-term projects. So companies turn to the public, inviting people to lend them money, or take a share in the business in exchange for a share in future profits. They do this by issuing stocks and shares in the business through tire Stock Exchange. By doing so, they can put into circulation the savings of individuals and institution, both at home and overseas. When the saver needs his money hack, he does not have to go to the company with whom he originally placed it. Instead,he sells his shares through a stockbroker to some other saver who is seeking to invest his money.Many of the services needed both by industry and by each of us are provided by the government or by local authorities. Without hospitals, roads, electricity, telephones, railways, this country could not function.All these require continuous spending on new equipment and new development if they are to serve us properly, requiring more money than is raised through taxes alone. The government, local authorities, and nationalized industries therefore frequently need to borrow money to finance major capital spending, and they, too, come to the Stock Exchange.