Large panies need a way to reach the savings of the public at large. The same problem, on a smaller 1 , faces practically every pany trying to 2 new products and create new jobs. There can be little prospect of raising the sort of sums needed from friends and people we know. While banks may agree to provide short-term finance, they are generally 3 to provide money on a permanent basis for long-term projects. So panies turn to public, inviting people to lend them money, or take a share in the business in 4 for a share in future profits. This they do by 5 stocks and shares in the business through the Stock Exchange. By doing so they can put into circulation the savings of 6 and organizations, both at home and overseas.
When the saver needs his money back, he does not have to go to the pany with whom he originally placed it. 7 , he sells his shares through a stockbroker to some other saver who is seeking to 8 his money.
Many of the 9 needed both by industry and by each of us are provided by the government or by local authorities. Without hospitals, electricity, telephones, railways, this country could not 10 . All these require 11 spending on new equipment and new development if they are to serve us properly, requiring more money than is raised through taxes alone. The government, local authorities, and nationalized industries 12 frequently need to borrow money to finance major capital spending, and they, too, e to the Stock Exchange.
There is 13 a man or woman in this country whose job or whose standard of living does not 14 the ability of his or her employers to raise money to finance new development. In one way or another this new money must e from the savings of the country. The Stock Exchange 15_ to provide a channel through which these savings can reach those who need finance.
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解析：本文系统讲解了股票市场融资的原理和股票操作的过程。
【小题1】C 名词辨析。A水平B程度C规模，范围D基础；指小规模的公司也会遇见和大公司一样的融资难的问题。
【小题2】C 动词辨析。A计划B提供C发展D准备；这里指每个努力开发新的产品和新产品的公司。
【小题3】B 形容词辨析。A没有预料B不愿意C难以相信D不确定；银行不愿意借钱给这样的公司。
【小题4】B 固定搭配。In exchange for…交换…；交换未来的利润中的份额。
【小题5】A 动词辨析。A发行B允许C生产D获得；指他们通过发行股票来融资。
【小题6】D 上下文串联。根据横线后面的organizations，指获得个人或者组织的积蓄。
【小题7】D 词义辨析。A真正B实际上C另外D相反；当投资者想把钱拿回来的时候，他不是去找对方，而是到股票市场上去卖掉自己的股票份额。
【小题8】C 动词辨析。A排除B反射C投资D利润；这些股份就会被另外一些想要投资的人买走。
【小题9】D 名词辨析。A特性，属性B器械C基础D服务；所有的这些服务都需要各方面的协调。
【小题10】A 动词辨析。A起作用B体验C分享D发射；这里是一种比喻，缺少了这些基础设施中的任何一种，一个国家就无法起作用了。
【小题11】B 形容词辨析。A看不见的B持续的C有限的D经济的；所有这一切都需要持续的投资。
【小题12】A 副词辨析。A因此B/C然而D否则，要不然；因此国家，地方政府以及国有企业各方面都需要不断的资金来进行建设。
【小题13】C 副词辨析。A明确地B几乎C几乎不D也许；在我们这个国家里几乎没有那个人不依赖他或者她的老板的能力来得到资金。指所有人都是相互依存的，经济领域也一样。
【小题14】B 短语辨析。A拒绝B依赖C接管D推迟；在我们这个国家里几乎没有那个人不依赖他或者她的老板的能力来得到资金。指所有人都是相互依存的，经济领域也一样。
【小题15】D 动词辨析。A释放B强迫C离开D存在；股票市场的存在提供了一种新的融资的渠道。