全国2006年4月高等教育自学考试外刊经贸知识选读试题

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I. Choose one answer that best explains the underlined part of the following statements or best completes them:(30%)
1.Farmers bartered rice for machinery.
A. exported        B. imported
C. exchanged        D. charged
2. Money is still a major incentive in most occupations.
A. procedure         B. stimulus
C. potential          D. section              
3. For China’s newly-rising enterprises, profits are up throughout the region — thanks largely to low wages.
A. products             B. sales
C. bonuses            D. returns               
4. The workers demanded the same wage and the same treatment! There must be no discrimination.
A. distribution        B. prejudice
C. agreement        D. performance      
5. Victims of the world’s largest industrial accident got $470 million compensation.
A. conversation       B. payment
C. preparation        D. competition         
6. South Korea needs only some degree of sweat and some degree of technological sophistication.
A. effort           B. water
C. fever            D. sweet  
7. Experts predict that the stock market will remain buoyant.
A. buying        B. rising
C. declining        D. descending   
8. International conditions for growth in developing countries deteriorated in 1991.
A. bettered           B. determined
C. worsened          D. damaged       
9. Far from capitulating to this new thrust of American trade policy, Japan is taking a stand that could lead to a trans-Pacific confrontation.
A. point             B. pressure
C. pull            D. priority             
10. Measures to reduce costs are beginning to take effect.
A. affect all sides          B. produce desired results
C. impact cost        D. have influence  

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> 11. A business tax cut is needed to spur industrial investment.
A. spread         B. spoil
C. stimulate        D. spill               
12. I wanted to go out, but I had no money. I had no alternative but to stay at home.
A. alternate             B. choose
C. alert               D. choice               
13. A key element of his economic program is the promotion of free trade and investment.
A. encouragement       B. protection
C. excitement              D. innovation        
14. Speculators deserted the security and big yields afforded by the equity and money markets.
A. stock           B. asset
C. equality          D. sales                   
15. Trade and investment liberalization will aggravate the competition on the domestic and international markets.
A. world          B. foreign
C. local          D. abroad          
II. Translate the following phrases into Chinese: (10%)
16.most-favored nation treatment 
17.trade surplus
18.hard currency
19.merger of banks
20.liquid assets
21.a hermit nation
22.trade negotiation
23.at a rough estimate
24.Chinese Export Commodities Fair
25.foreign exchange reserves
III. Translate the following phrases into English:(10%)
26.独家经销合同
27.经常项目
28.清算协议
29.人均收入
30.无壁垒市场
31.双重税
32.房地产
33.试销 
34.知识产权
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41. Please paraphrase the underlined sentence “No longer, it seems”.
V. Read the following two passages and decide whether the statements are true or false. Mark T for true and F for false in the brackets given: (20%)
Passage 1
China is now reaching for the next rung on the economic ladder. Last fall Beijing agreed to open its markets to more U.S. goods, including everything from Polaroid film to automobiles. In return, Washington would support China’s membership in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. Membership in this club, which includes all the world’s leading economies, could provide a huge boost for a low-wage export economy. Already though, China’s commercial strength is starting to worry competitors. Last year China’s trade surplus surged, buoyed by exports of toys, textiles and consumer electronics. Its trade surplus with the United States hit a record $18 billion. Only Japan’s was larger. With the U.S. Congress due to consider the renewal of China’s most -favored nation trade status in June, officials in Beijing fear the trade imbalance could surpass human rights as a source of U.S. opposition to preferred status for China. “The trade surplus itself will be the No.1 problem this year,” says one Chinese official. “After Japan, we’ll be first in line for retaliation.”
Statements:
42. Chinas trade surplus, mainly from exports of toys, textiles and consumer electronics, decreased last year.    
43. The strategy of opening markets to more U.S. goods is adopted by Chinese leaders in the hope of obtaining Washington’s support in winning back China’s membership in GATT. 转贴于：自学考试_博学在线

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44. China became the country which held the largest trade surplus with the U.S. last year.  
45. In the past, the trade imbalance was regarded as the more important source of U.S. opposition to preferred status for China than human rights.  
46. Officials in Beijing attach much importance to the trade surplus.    
Passage 2
Nike is the world’s largest supplier of athletic footwear and among the most successful consumer-products companies to have emerged in the past 20 years. Part of that success has come about by paying rock-bottom wages to the workers who make the shoes. All but 1% of the 90 million shoes Nike makes each year are manufactured in Asia.
Nike is as American as Coca-cola. Part of its appeal to the millions of people around the world who buy its athletic shoes is that Nike is selling a sense of freedom. “Just do it!” exult Nike’s advertisements.
But there is a rough side to this dream: the ruthlessness wi