全国2010年7月高等教育自学考试外刊经贸知识选读试题
课程代码:00096

一、单项选择题(本大题共15小题,每小题2分,共30分)
在每小题列出的四个备选项中只有一个可以替代句中划线的单词或词组,请将其代码填写在题后的括号内.错选、多选或未选均无分.
1. The original ban on private trading had long since been given up. ( )
A. waved
B. waited
C. waived
D. wanted
2. Goods are produced according to sample provided by the customer. ( )
A. Procedures
B. Products
C. Potentials
D. Proposals
3. China is reaping the rewards of reforms first launched by Deng Xiaoping in 1979. ( )
A. obtaining
B. bouncing
C. radiating
D. raising
4. Many countries in the region were adversely affected by declines in workers’ remittances and tourism revenues. ( )
A. stagnated
B. slackened
C. compounded
D. impacted
5. The museum stored all frangible articles in a locked showcase. ( )
A. breakable
B. payable
C. considerable D. amenable
6. The US asks the World Trade Organization to limit trade sanctions to $1bn instead of the $4bn sanctions the EU wants to impose. ( )
A. penalties
B. confrontations
C. frictions
D. consequences
7. The world’s second largest economy, Japan, has been languishing for nearly a decade, after the boom of the early 1980s collapsed. ( )
A. active
B. robust
C. inactive
D. encouraging
8. Exports of Japanese machinery withstood the downturn quite well because the Asian economies that buy them continued to boom. ( )
A. disputed
B. provoked
C. reckoned
D. resisted
9. Email scripts intrude on a computer without one’s knowledge. ( )
A. trespass
B. eliminate
C. detract
D. proceed
10. Dubai is making progress in its efforts to promote international awareness of its attractions.
( )
A. accommodation
B. consciousness
C. coincidence
D. legitimacy
11. Security Council members confirm support for African efforts to settle conflict between Ethiopia and Eritrea. ( )
A. spread
B. spoil
C. stop
D. spill
12. Smoking is strictly prohibited in the process of handling explosive materials. ( )
A. flourished
B. endured
C. subsidized
D. forbidden
13. Big companies understand the importance of brands. ( )
A. executives
B. experiments
C. franchises
D. trademarks
14. That market alone accounted for half of the volume and 40 per cent of the value of the total U.S. exports of shell eggs for food use. ( )
A. added to
B. shared with
C. amounted to
D. connected with
15. International not-for-profit trade association with 50 corporate members resided in 20 countries who produce 95 percent of the world supply of synthetic rubber. ( )
A. productive
B. artificial
C. tropical
D. artistic

二、将下列词组译成中文（本大题共10小题,每小题1 分,共10分）
16. market share
17. raw material
18. capital market
19. foreign-exchange reserves
20. bilateral pacts
21. intellectual property
22. free trade
23. (OPEC)
24. hard currency
25. consumer goods

三、将下列词组译成英文（本大题共10小题,每小题1分,共10分）
26. 战略性储备
27. 服务贸易
28. 供应过剩
29. 清算协议
30. 利息付款
31. 特别提款权
32. 证券投资
33. 生产力
34. 合资企业
35. 技术转让

四、简答题（本大题共6小题,共18分）

In 1991, for the second year in a row, the economies of low-income and middle-income countries virtually stagnated, as measured by an increase in per capita gross domestic product (GDP). Aggregate output for developing countries advanced by slightly less than 2 per cent during 1991 (similar to the weak performance of 1990), implying an easing in per capita income of 0.1 per cent.
Aggregate statistics for 1991 were influenced by the sharp decline in output in Central and Eastern Europe, as well as by the adverse effects of the Gulf crisis on several economies in the Middle East. Excluding Central and Eastern Europe, growth in developing countries in 1991 was 3.4 per cent, compared with 3.8 per cent during the 1980s. Estimates of GDP growth by major geographic region show an acceleration in Latin America and in sub-Saharan Africa; an increase in China’s growth rate helped to sustain high rates of growth in the East Asia region.
36. What do "in a row", "stagnate" and "aggregate" mean in the first paragraph?
37. What kind of influence did the Gulf crisis have on the Middle East economy?
38. What does the report mean to emphasize using the word "geographic"?

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