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Banking is about money; and no other familiar services or commodities arouse such excesses of passion and dislike. Nor is there any other about which more nonsense is talked. The type of thing that comes to mind is not what normally called economics, which is inexact rather than nonsensical, and only in the same way as all scientists are at the point where they try to predict people's behavior and its consequences. Indeed most social sciences and, for example, medicine could probably be described in the same way.
However, it is common to hear assertions of the kind "if you were marooned (孤立无援的）on a desert island a few seed potatoes would be more useful to you than a million pounds" as though this proved something important about money except the undeniable fact that it would not be much used to anyone in a situation where very few of us are at all likely to find ourselves. Money in fact is a token, or symbolic object, exchangeable on dernand by its holders for goods and services. Its use for this purpose is universal except within a small number of primitive agricultural communities.
Money and the price mechanism, i.e., the changes in prices expressed in money terms of different goods and services, are the means by which all modem societies regulate demand and supply for these things. Especially important are the relative changes in price of different goods and services compared with each other. To take random examples: the price of house building has over the past five years risen a good deal faster than that of domestic appliances like refrigerators, but slower than that of motor insurance or French Impressionist paintings.This fact has complex implications for students of the brick industry, trade unionism, town planning, insurance companies, fine art auctions, and politics. Unpacking these implications is what economics is about, but their implications for bankers are quite different.
In general, in modem industrialized societies, prices of services or goods produced in a context requiring a high service-content (e.g., a meal in a restaurant.are likely to rise in price more rapidly than goods capable of mass-production on a large scale. It is also a characteristic of highly developed economies that the number of workers employed in service industries tends to rise and that of workers employed in manufacturing to fall. The discomfort this truth causes the big general trade unions as they contrast their own situation with that of the rapidly growing white-collar unions has been an important source of tension in western political life for many years and is likely to remain so for many more.
According to the author, banking

A．is another form of commodities
B．arouses people's passionate concern
C．is the same thing as economy
D．has the same description.as medicine

参考答案：B进入在线模考

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[51]银行业就是有关金钱的行业；而且，没有其他熟悉的服务或商品能够引起这种过度的激情与厌恶。也没有任何其他行业比银行业引起了更多的无稽之谈。浮现在脑海中的可不是什么通常所称的经济学，与其说这是无意义的，还不如说是不确切的。它只是与所有科学家在试图预测人们的行为及其结果时的反应一样。事实上，大部分社会科学，如医学，可能都可以这样描述。
然而，我们常常会听到这种断言：“如果你身陷荒岛孤立无援，那么对于你来说，一些马铃薯种子比100万英镑更有用。”这种断言似乎证实了金钱的某种重要的特质——除了一个不可否认的事实，即我们很少有人会遇到金钱无大用处的情形。[52]事实上，金钱是种象征或象征性事物，可使其持有者交换所需的商品和服务。除了在少数原始的农业社区中，金钱的这种用途是很普遍的。
[53]金钱和价格机制，即不同商品和服务用金钱作为标准所显示出的价格变化，是所有现代社会调节这些东西的供求关系的方式。尤为重要的是，不同商品及服务彼此对比时所展现出的价格的相对变化。随便举个例子吧，过去五年里，房价的增长速度比诸如冰箱这类的家用电器要快得多，但却比汽车保险或法国印象派绘画的价格增长慢。这一事实对于学习制砖业、工会制度、城市规划、保险公司、艺术品拍卖以及政治的学生有着复杂的意义。分析这些意义就是经济学，但是它们对于银行家却有着完全不同的意义。
[54]总体而言，在现代工业社会，高质量的服务或商品的价格(比如餐馆里的餐饮)很可能比那些能够被大规模生产的商品的价格上涨要快。高度发达经济体的另一个特征是：受雇于服务业的人员会增多，而受雇于制造业的工人人数会下降。[55]当大型工会将自己的情况与迅速增长的白领联合会对比时，这一事实所引起的不快就成了多年来西方政治生活中存在的紧张不安情绪的重要来源，而且这种情况在未来的许多年中很可能会继续存在。
【答案解析】
定位：根据题干信息词banking定位到第一段第一句。
解析：根据该句可知，“银行业就是有关金钱的行业；而且，没有其他熟悉的服务或商品能够引起这种过度的激情与厌恶”。由此可推断，银行业引起人们的强烈关注，故B项为正确答案。

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