Money spent on advertising is money spent as well as any I know of．It serves directly to assist a rapid distribution of goods at reasonable prices, thereby establishing a firm home market and so making it possible to provide for export at competitive prices．By drawing attention to new ideas it helps enormously to raise standards of living．By helping to increase demand it ensures an increased need for labor, and is therefore an effective way to fight unemployment．It lowers the costs of many services: without advertisements your daily newspaper would cost four times as much, the price of your television license would need to be doubled, and travel by bus or tube would cost 20 per cent more．

       And perhaps most important of all, advertising provides a guarantee of reasonable value in the products and services you buy．Apart from the fact that twenty-seven Acts of Parliament govern the terms of advertising, no regular advertiser dare promote a product that fails to live up to the promise of his advertisements．He might fool some people for a little while through misleading advertising．He will not do so for long, for mercifully the public has the good sense not to buy the inferior article more than once．If you see an article consistently advertised, it is the surest proof I know that the article does what is claimed for it, and that it represents good value．

1．By the first sentence of the passage, the author means that______．

       A．he is fairly familiar with the cost of advertising

       B．everybody knows well that advertising is money consuming

       C．advertising costs money like everything else

       D．it is worthwhile to spend money on advertising

2．In the passage, which of the following is not included in the advantage of advertising?

       A．Securing greater fame．                       B．Providing more jobs．

       C．Improving living standards．               D．Reducing newspaper cost．

3．According to the author, _____．

       A．the consumers are often fooled by misleading advertising．

       B．no advertiser dare promote a product that can't live up to the promise of his advertisement．

       C．if an article is consistently advertised, it probably has good value．

       D．with advertisements, you have to pay more for the goods or services you need．

4．From the passage, we can draw a conclusion that____．

       A．the most importance of advertisements is to lower the cost of many services

       B．the twenty-seven Acts of Parliament made misleading advertisements unable to exist

       C．advertising assists a rapid distribution of goods, thereby do good to the import at good prices

       D．advertising does a lot for the material benefit of the community