全国2003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.The government decided to slash its tariff by 25 percent.
 A. reduce drastically                  B. divide
 C. increase                            D. raise
 2.Trade accords helped the healthy development of those small countries.
 A. moving                              B. integration
 C. agreement                           D. standardization
 3.Also noteworthy was the implementation by the Paris Club of a new menu of enhanced concessions in debt reschedulings for the severely indebted, low-income countries.
 A. list                                B. arrangement
 C. contract                            D. plan
 4.To the administration, Tokyo appears more “result-oriented” than the Community, prompting hopes that bargains can be reached with Japan to ease frictions on a range of issues.
 A. lower prices                              B. discounts
 C. deals                               D. agreements
 5.Last year, however, China ousted the US to become the second largest exporter to the emirate with goods worth more than $ 1,000 million, or 8 per cent of Dubai's total import bill.
 A. drove out                           B. replaced
 C. aroused                             D. urged
 6.The strong increase in imports last year is attributed to buoyant economic activity.
 A. pessimistic                         B. strong
 C. optimistic                          D. brisk
 7.People from a private industry background sometimes encounter frustration when dealing with command economy.
 A. misunderstanding of one's purpose
 B. discontentment because unable to achieve desires
 C. physical injury
 D. attack of bad words
 8.The Chinese officials in charge flatly refused to supply bilingual labels.
 A. carefully and attentively           B. rudely and violently
 C. politely and respectfully           D. completely and firmly
 9.Western companies are supposed to be the masters of innovation.
 A. newly introduced ideas or methods
 B. market research
 C. effective production
 D. sophisticated products
 10.Japanese manufacturers send their top staff to hepl out and hand any proprietary know-how needed.
 A. questions                            B. practical ability or skill
 C. information                          D. trouble
 11.Any western firm will have little choice but to step on the new treadmill too.
 A. way of production                    B. routine
 C. technical innovation                 D. development approach
 12.Officials say that this trade policy overhaul will help the economy.
 A. catch                                B. examination
 C. thorough change                      D. stop
 13.Technical literacy is now more widely diffused throughout Japanese business.
 A. understood                           B. accepted
 C. admired                              D. scattered
 14.Only weeks after Matsushita launched a rival to Sony's palm-sized camcorder, Sony hit back with two new models.
 A. new product for competition
 B. innovation programme
 C. a large sum of money for a new model
 D. new ideas for camcorder
 15.This will strengthen China's market-oriented economy, making it more compatible with the economies of other WTO members.
 A. different from                      B. competitive with
 C. agreable to                         D. liberal than转贴于：自学考试_博学在线

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 Ⅳ.Read the following passages and answer the following questions in English:(24%)
                              Passage 1
     If European aren't bursting to give the single market a coming-out party, it may simply be that markets aren't the kinds of things people gush about, as EC commission president Jacaues Delors has often noted.  The fact that free movement of people— and aspect of the market that will be most evident to the average person—is not yet a reality also plays a role.
     Another explanation is that many of the market's original 282 directives have already been implemented. 
     “By Jan. 1 we ill have passed 95 per cent of what we sought in 1986 to create the single market, and much of the will already have been translated into national law,” says Perissich. “Adjustment to the market has been going on for years and won't be expected overnight.”
 36.What does “EC” stand for and what is the meaning of “gush about”?
 37.Paraphrase the underlined sentence.
 38.In addition to people, what else can be moved freely within the Single Market?
 Passage 2
    An insistence that Europe and Japan create a “level playing field” for trade by agreeing to give U.S. exporters the same access to their markets as foreign companies receive in the United States. This push to expand U. S. manufacturing exports is considered essential politically to fulfill President Bill Clinton's campaign promise of more “high-wage, high skill” jobs for Americans.
    A willingness to impose sanctions on major trading partners to reduce trade barriers abroad, with less patience for drawn-out negotiations. Administration officials see little risk that this more aggressive policy could escalate into a full-fledged trade war that would shock the world's fragile economies. Thus, the administration will not be deterred by complaints that it has moved to “protectionism”.
 39.What is the meaning of a “level playing field” for trade?
 40.In what way could this push help “fulfill President Bill Clinton's campaign promise”?
 41.Why would the administration not be deferred from exercising the more aggressive policy?转贴于：自学考试_博学在线

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 Ⅴ.Read the following two passages and decide whether the statements are true or fales. Mark T for tru