網(wǎng)友A整理：在谷歌搜一下就能發(fā)現(xiàn)，2001年秋季學(xué)期宜昌市第一中學(xué)高二 (上)
英語期末測試題閱讀理解 第五段就是這個(gè)，空沒有標(biāo)出來
Banks are not ordinarily prepared to put out all accounts (帳戶); they depend on depositors (存款者) not to demand all at the same time. If depositors should come to fear that a bank is not sound and that it cannot pay off all its depositors, that fear might cause all the depositors to appear on the same day. If they did, the bank could not pay all accounts. If they did not appear at once, there would always be funds to pay those who wanted their money. Mrs Elsie Vaught has told us of a terrifying bank run (齊提存款) that she experienced. One day in the December of 1975 several banks failed to open in a city where Mrs Vaught lived. The other banks would have a run the next day, and the bank in which Mrs Vaught worked as a clerk had enough funds on hand to pay off as many depositors as might apply. The officers simply instructed the clerks to pay on demand. The next morning a crowd gathered in the bank and on the sidewalk outside. The length of the line made many believe that the bank could not possibly pay off everyone. People began to push and then fight for places near the clerks’ windows. Clothing was torn, legs and arms broken, but the crowd continued for hours. The power of the worrying was clear in the fact that two clerks, though they knew that the bank was sound and could pay out all depositors, drew out the funds in their own accounts. Mrs Vaught said that she had difficulty preventing herself from doing the same.
英語期末測試題閱讀理解 第五段就是這個(gè)，空沒有標(biāo)出來
Banks are not ordinarily prepared to put out all accounts (帳戶); they depend on depositors (存款者) not to demand all at the same time. If depositors should come to fear that a bank is not sound and that it cannot pay off all its depositors, that fear might cause all the depositors to appear on the same day. If they did, the bank could not pay all accounts. If they did not appear at once, there would always be funds to pay those who wanted their money. Mrs Elsie Vaught has told us of a terrifying bank run (齊提存款) that she experienced. One day in the December of 1975 several banks failed to open in a city where Mrs Vaught lived. The other banks would have a run the next day, and the bank in which Mrs Vaught worked as a clerk had enough funds on hand to pay off as many depositors as might apply. The officers simply instructed the clerks to pay on demand. The next morning a crowd gathered in the bank and on the sidewalk outside. The length of the line made many believe that the bank could not possibly pay off everyone. People began to push and then fight for places near the clerks’ windows. Clothing was torn, legs and arms broken, but the crowd continued for hours. The power of the worrying was clear in the fact that two clerks, though they knew that the bank was sound and could pay out all depositors, drew out the funds in their own accounts. Mrs Vaught said that she had difficulty preventing herself from doing the same.