外刊经贸知识选读试题_全国2008年7月自考试卷

全国自考2008年7月外刊经贸知识选读试题

湖北自考网11月27日整理
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.Economic problems were exacerbated by three bad harvests with the result that national income and the volume of foreign trade contracted during 1960—1962.(     )
A. exaggerated B. celebrated 
C. worsened D. facilitated
2.The following year, a tax law for joint venture was promulgated.(     )
A. announced B. prolonged 
C. transformed D. upgraded
3.Growing ties between China’s traders and their partners in Taiwan and Hong Kong are creating an unofficial but formidable “greater China” trade bloc.(     )
A. formal B. powerful 
C. fundamental D. rational
4.The index of nonoil primary commodity prices in nominal dollar terms declines for the third consecutive year, and the index in real terms hits an all-time low.(     )
A. communicative B. intensive 
C. selective D. successive
5.This push to expand U.S. manufacturing exports is considered essential politically to fulfill the President’s promise.(     )
A. promotion B. purpose 
C. pressure D. pull
6.One of the central justifications for the single market was its ability to create greater prosperity, but it is making its debut just as Europe traverses one of its roughest economic storms in years.
(     )
A. goes through B. goes off 
C. goes down D. goes on
7.Japan’s government is deeply opposed to a new policy geared to “quantifiable results” for some products. (     )
A. generated to B. suitable for 
C. followed by D. acquainted with
8.The Japanese will not be able to keep a lid on their high-tech know-how forever. Sooner or later they will begin to lose their edge.(     )
A. hope B. heart 
C. advantage D. disadvantage
9.The most visible result of this buoyant market in both centers is a plethora of new multi-storey commercial and residential buildings.(     )
A. positive` B. active 
C. passive D. negative
10.The U.S. Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) is providing at least $120 million to spur investment in three Central American nations that are signatories to a free-trade agreement with the United States.(     )
A. restrict B. restrain 
C. support D. stimulate
11.The Northrop Corporation of the United States located a purchaser for Swiss elevators in Egypt. (     )
A. seller B. distributor 
C. broker D. buyer
12.Pepsi is concentrating on distributing Slice through bottlers who have no conflict.(     )
A. contracting B. distributing 
C. focusing D. promoting
13.Chinese eggs dominate the fresh egg market with more than an 80-per cent share.(     )
A. control B. concentrate 
C. constrain D. comply
14.For most people involved in the production and trading of “soft” or agricultural commodities, this is proving to be a grim decade.(     )
A. communities B. products 
C. commands D. districts
15.But a recovery was made on the back of sterling’s weaker trend against the dollar.(     )
A. supporting B. surrounding 
C. influencing D. following

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. invisible account
17. SEZ
18. soft commodity
19. per capita income
20. trade sanctions
21. strategic stockpile
22. managed trade
23. brain trust
24. carbon tax
25. intellectual property

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. 试销市场
27. 外汇收入
28. 中央银行
29. 消费品
30. 高技术
31. 国内需求
32. 特别提款权
33. 强硬政策
34. 产地证明书
35. 补偿协议

四、简答题(本大题共6小题，每小题3分，共18分)
Passage 1
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.”
36. What is the meaning of the underlined word “though”? And why is it used here?
37. Why would trade surplus be a problem?
38. For what reason(s) or on what excuse will we be “first in line for retaliation”?
Passage 2
Yet in its current dour mood, Europe risks almost overlooking the revolutionary step forward it has taken in creating the world’s largest and wealthiest barrier—free market?and on a continent where, for centuries, economic battles have led to some of history’s bloodiest wars. Moreover, a failure to reinforce the single market by pushing forward with European integration could lead to an unraveling of what the internal market program has achieved, some observers say.
39. What do “dour” and “revolutionary” mean in the first sentence?
40. What did the writer worry about for Western Europe?
41. What did some observers think might cause the failure of the internal market program?

五、正误判断题（本大题共10小题，每小题2分，共20分）
正确的在题后括号内写“T”，错误的写“F”。
Passage 1
What causes a person to choose one store or one product over another? We know that a person weighs both positive and negative benefits of a product offer, but what elements are being evaluated? Let us look at a typical consumer situation. This story emphasized the necessity for viewing product offers broadly. It also serves as an introduction to packaging, branding, and customer service as product elements.
Chuck Peterson went out to his car one cold day and found that the battery was dead. Chuck went back to his house and began immediately to search for a good place to buy a new battery (it was Saturday, so he had time). Chuck remembered seeing battery ads in the sports section of the newspaper, and so he took out his old papers and went through the ads. He found that several stores were having sales and was pleased, because one of his concerns was getting a good price.
Since Chuck’s car was inoperative, he did not feel like going too far to get a new battery (although his neighbor offered to drive him wherever he wanted to go). Another concern, therefore, was finding a convenient store.
Many different batteries were advertised in the paper at widely ranging prices. Chuck decided to stick to brand names with which he was familiar because he felt he would be able to get better service on a brand name item. Chuck decided to go to the local Sears store and get a battery that was on sale. He asked his neighbor to help him get his car started with booster cables and drove down to the Sears store nearest him. On the way he passed several gas stations and other stores that sold batteries.
What can we learn from this example? First, notice that Chuck did not go to the nearest convenient place to buy batteries (local gas stations). Why not? Somehow Chuck had gotten the impression that gas stations had higher prices for their batteries. He