全國2006年4月高等教育自學(xué)考試

外刊經(jīng)貿(mào)知識(shí)選讀試題

課程代碼：00096

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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           

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