The price of coffee beans hits a 12 – year high today. I thought there might

be some kind of coffee – market story, like we saw with cocoa earlier this summer.

But the main driver of coffee prices right now is simpler: Colombia has had

a few years of weak coffee harvests because of too much rain, which has reduced

the global supply. And coffee drinkers keep buying coffee, even as prices rise, in

other words, demand is unchanged.

The higher price of beans – up about 40 percent since March – means higher prices for the coffee you buy by the pound. But it probably won’t affect the coffee you buy by the cup.

Smuckers, which sells Folgers and Millstone coffees, recently said it was raising its prices because of the higher cost of beans. Starbucks, however, said it would absorb the higher cost of beans without raising prices.

“You see it much more in the grocery store because the raw materials are a big factor of cost,” Jose Sette of the International Coffee Organization told me. “In a coffee shop, your big expenses are rent and labor.”

While real – world supply and demand is the big driver of the price of beans, there may be some speculative action in coffee business in the future.

But futures (期貨) of the high – grade Arabica beans are traded in the US, where regulations prevent speculators (投機(jī)商) from controlling the market, hoping such things won’t happen just as in London summer market. That suggests that prices should fall when supply improves – which may happen next year.

Some experts say that farmers in third world countries won’t actually benefit from higher prices in this case. When the price difference is due to supply and demand, the profit of the seller usually doesn’t go up.

1.Which of the following is the best title for the passage?

    A．Why coffee is getting more expensive?

    B．How farmer benefits from the high price?

    C．Whether the US will control the coffee market?

    D．What has caused the reduction of coffee?

2.From the second paragraph we can infer that _______________________.

    A．Colombia is the coffee trading center of the world

    B．Colombia coffee output contains a final share of the world

    C．People need more and more coffee

    D．Coffee sales will be getting less and less

3.In this summer’s coffee bean market, ____________________________.

    A．the US made more rules about coffee prices

    B．speculators once held the coffee bean market in London

    C．coffee bean trading was seriously disorganized

    D．coffee bean prices were very low in the US

4.Which of the following is TRUE according to the text?

    A．The price difference determines the profit of the seller.

    B．Smuckers is a famous coffee manufacturer.

    C．Real – world supply and demand decides the prices.

    D．Coffee prices will become much higher next year.

 

【答案】

 

1.A

2.B

3.B

4.C

【解析】本文講述了咖啡的價(jià)格創(chuàng)12年來歷史新高并分析了原因。

1.考查判斷標(biāo)題。 根據(jù)文章的第一段可知本文講述的是咖啡漲價(jià)的原因。故選A。

2.細(xì)節(jié)判斷題。由第二段可知，由于哥倫比亞的咖啡豆連續(xù)幾年歉收，影響了全球的供應(yīng)量�？芍�，答案為B.

3.細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)hoping such things won’t happen just as in London summer market.可知，倫敦夏季市場(chǎng)發(fā)生過投機(jī)商控制咖啡豆市場(chǎng)的事情。

4.細(xì)節(jié)判斷題。由文章對(duì)咖啡漲價(jià)的原因的分析和我們的常識(shí)可知答案應(yīng)為C.

 

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