Now let’s say that at the end of the year, wages go up to$11.00 per hour, but the price of bread goes up to $1.50. Now a person has to work more than one-seventh of an hour, over eight minutes to but the same loaf of bread. As you can see, if more and more work time is spent earning money to buy loaves of bread, employees will have less money left over to buy other things Inflation means that the same money buys fewer things and everybody’s standard of living goes down, even if salaries are going up.

　　Some kinds of inflation are worse than others, Moderate inflation does not distort（扭曲）relative prices or incomes seriously, Galloping inflation happens rapidly, say at a rate of 100 percent or more within a year. And then there is hyperinflation－inflation so serious that people try to get rid of their currency before prices rise further and make the money worthless. Times of hyperinflation are usually characterized by social and political disorder.

　　1．The passage mainly wants to

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　　A．list major economic problems B．discuss something about inflation

　　C．explain why bread prices increase D．state the types of inflation

　　2．Why is“a loaf of bread”repeatedly mentioned?

　　A．To express dissatisfaction with the price of bread.

　　B．To show the effect of price changes.

　　C．To compare bread with other food.

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