以下是引用brilliclouds在2007-6-13 13:35:00的发言:6月12日,也就是昨天完成的任务,嗬嗬,我竟然发现自己昨天总共用时达到7个多小时,哈哈,不过当然算上了一些利用零碎时间看单词的时间,嗬嗬,自己都觉得吓一大跳,看来时间还是要用挤的,不过也不知道是否自己每天都能够有这么好的学习状态。 做了14(电视对政治的改变,0/13),18(妇女在书写历史中的地位,0/10),31(租金控制的原因和作用,2/11,推理题,词汇题),40(每周工作时间的演变,0/11),42(铁路对日常生活的影响,0/11) 总共错题:2/56 增加做了delta阅读部分的1。1,竟然只错了1/30 听写了delta2。1的c部分。 只能够说昨天状态太好了,希望考试也有这种状态就好了。 第31篇是老托福9701的文章,讲租金控制的,第6道题目有些不明白,有水可以解答一下下? 45. It can be inferred that the purpose of rent control is to (A) protect tenants (B) promote construction (C) increase vacancy rates (D) decrease sales of rental units
见原文红色的标记.暗试了rent control是和房子的短缺有关.就是想prompt house construct. A选项,文章中没有提及,也就是并不是说,rent control是为了保护承住人. Rent control is the system whereby the local government tells building owners how much they can charge their tenants in rent. In the United States, rent controls date back to at least World War II. In 1943 the federal government imposed rent controls to help solve the problem of housing shortages during wartime. The federal program ended after the war, but in some locations, including New York City, controls continued. Under New York's controls, a landlord generally cannot raise rents on apartments as long as the tenants continue to renew their leases. In places such as Santa Monica, California, rent controls are more recent. They were spurred by the inflation of the 1970's, which, combined with California's rapid population growth, pushed housing prices, as well as rents, to record levels. In 1979 Santa Monica's municipal government ordered landlords to roll back their rents to the levels charged in 1978. Future rents could only go up by two-thirds as much as any increase in the overall price level. In any housing market, rental prices perform three functions: (1) promoting the efficient maintenance of existing housing and stimulating the construction of new housing, (2) allocating existing scarce housing among competing claimants, and (3) rationing use of existing housing by potential renters. |