文档介绍：2012 年全国硕士研究生入学考试英语模拟试题(第三套)

Section I Use of English

Directions:
Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D
on ANSWER SHEET 1. (10 points)

Gap, . Penney, and other . retailers have long benefited from low costs in China to
hold 1 prices in their American stores. A cotton 2 may help change that equation.
China's farms produce about 26 percent of the world's cotton, yet that's not 3 to satisfy
the needs of the panies that make shirts, pants, dresses, and more for . store
chains. Cotton futures in China have surged more than 70 percent this year 4 the global economy
5 from recession and consumers worldwide started spending more on clothes. Production in
China, the world's biggest user of cotton, is forecast to lag behind demand for 6 12th year,
cutting the country's 7 to the smallest level since 1995, according to the . Agriculture
Dept. The 8 gives local makers of cotton fabrics a lot of leverage in negotiating prices with
9 manufacturers. “It's a little 10 to deal with cotton suppliers now,” says Vicky Wu, a
sales manager at Suzhou Unitedtex Enterprise, a closely held clothes maker 11 in Jiangsu
province that counts Gap and Penney's 12 its clients.
Chinese suppliers to the big . retailers have to figure out 13 they can pass on their
increased costs. Unitedtex, which sells $24 million worth of shirts and jackets annually to Gap,
plans to 14 prices by 5 percent to 30 percent for products available in April, Wu says.
Shandong Zaozhuang Tianlong Knitting, which makes Polo Ralph Lauren T-shirts and track suits
for Le Coq Sportif Holding, has raised prices as 15 as 70 percent from a year earlier. “If
cotton keeps rising like this, we will need to 16 prices by 30 percent by Chinese New Year or
we lose money,” says sales manager Fred Hu.
“American consumers better get used to rising prices on the shelves of Wal-Mart and other
retailers,” says