报刊选读平时作业201309

对外经济贸易大学继续教育学院夜大教育部

2013-2014学年第一学期

《经贸报刊阅读》平时作业（）

年级______ 专业______ 班级______ 姓名________ 学号______

题号Part I Part II Part III Part IV Part V Part VI 总分

得分

I. Multiple choice 20%. Choose the best answer to either complete the sentence or replace the underlined part.

1.This test ______ a number of multiple-choice questions.

A. composes of

B. composes in

C. consists of

D. consists in

2.There could have been a war over it but in the end reason ______.

A. induced

B. counted

C. survived

D. prevailed

3.They have asked us to ______ in the negotiation.

A. involve

B. be mixed

C. participate

D. take place

4.I ______ on seeing the manager. The service in this hotel is terrible.

A. insist

B. persist

C. affirm

D. protest

5.I caught a ______ of the car before it disappeared around the bend.

A. glance

B. glimpse

C. glare

D. gleam

6.Would you please ______ from smoking while the lecture is in progress?

A. avoid

B. refrain

C. stop

D. keep

7.The country needs a ______ government. We have had three Prime Ministers in a year.

A. stationary

B. changeless

C. constant

D. stable

8.Hot metal ______ as it grows cooler.

A. reduces

B. condenses

C. compresses

D. contracts

9.He ______ a very busy life.

A. leads

B. follows

C. carries

D. runs

10.He ______ the money out of my hand and ran away.

A. clutched

B. gripped

C. snatched

D. withdrew

11.I was unable to ______ him to do as I said.

A. dispose

B. prevail

C. persuade

D. confirm

12.He thinks about nothing but playing golf. He is completely ______ to it.

A. addicted

B. ascribed

C. tempted

D. overcome

13.I’m going into the garden to ______ some flowers.

A. grip

B. seize

C. snatch

D. pick

14.We finally ______ an agreement after a lot of hand bargaining.

A reached B. arrived C. did D. drove

15.He accidentally ______ fire to the house.

A. put

B. set

C. gave

D. started

16.The factory has increased its ______ by 10 percent this year.

A. product

B. output

C. make-up

D. exposure

17.Margaret is very pretty at times.

A. beautiful

B. lovely

C. small-minded

D. tiny

18.Get a shirt one size larger than you usually wear, because this material ______ when you wash it.

A. fades

B. recedes

C. shrinks

D. decreases

19. Does Jimmy take after his father?

A. walk behind

B. help

C. fight with

D. resemble

20. Mrs. White is an excellent housekeeper? her house is always clean and with everything in order.

A. ordinal

B. neat

C. ordained

D. logistic

II. Term explanation 15%.Explain each of the following terms in about 30 words.

1. purchasing power parity

2. mutual fund

III. Question(s) 20%.Answer the following question(s), which is/are based on the passage learned, in 100-130 words.

What has been driving China’s economy forward in the past thirty years, as you understand the passage Chugging Along? Can the economy continue to grow as it did in the past? Why/Why not? (give at least two reasons)

IV. Cloze 15%. In this part, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.

A. inflation

B. which

C. deflation

D. effect

E. payments

F. conversely

G. short

H. tendency

I. instead

J. tends

K. demand L. volume M. adverse N. retain O. exports

Inflation and its opposite __1__ are situations which basically arise from the operations of the law of supply and __2__. Briefly, this law states that the price of a commodity is determined by the supply of it and the demand for it: if it is in __3__ supply and many people wish to buy it, the price __4__ to rise? __5__, if the supply is bountiful and the demand small, the price tends to fall. When personal incomes rise and credit is easily and cheaply available, the demand for goods is high. In a country like Britain, __6__ has a large volume of imports, any increase in production to meet increased demand at home causes imports to rise, and unless this is accompanied by an expansion of exports, it has an adverse effect on the country's balance of __7__. There are also psychological factors. When there is inflation, people fear for the value of their money? there is a __8__to withdraw savings in the form of investments in stocks and interest-bearing bonds, and __9__ to buy houses, land, pictures, antique silver and furniture, and so on, which the buyers hope will at least __10__ their value and may even appreciate. (210 words)

V. Reading comprehension 20%.

Passage 1(5%)

What is meant by the term economic resources? In general, these are all the natural, man-made, and human resources that go into the production of goods and services. This obviously covers a lot of ground: factories and farms, tools and machines, transportation and communication facilities, all types of natural resources, and labor.

Economic resources can be broken down into two general categories: property resources - land and capital, and human resources - labor and entrepreneurial skills.

What do economists mean by land? Much more than non-economists. Land refers to all natural resources that are usable in the production process: cultivatable land, forests, mineral and oil deposits, and so on. What about capital?

Capital goods are all the man-made aids to producing, storing, transporting, and distributing goods and services.

Capital goods differ from consumer goods in that the latter satisfy wants directly, while the former do so indirectly by facilitating the production of consumer goods. It should be noted that capitals as defined here do not refer to money.

Money, as such, produces nothing.

The term labor refers to the physical and mental talents of humans used to produce goods or services (with the

exception of a certain set of human talents, entrepreneurial skills, which will be considered separately because of their special significance). Thus the services of a factory worker or an office worker, a ballet dancer or an astronaut all fall under the general heading of labor. (238 words)

1. In Paragraph 1, the author uses the expression "This obviously covers a lot of ground" to indicate that ______.

A. the factories and farms discussed in the passage are very large

B. economic resources will be discussed in great depth

C. the topic of economic resources is a broad one

D. land is an important concept in economics

2. When non-economists use the term "land", its definition ______.

A. is much more general than when economists use it

B. is much more restrictive than when economists use it

C. changes from place to place

D. includes all types of natural resources

3. Which of the following could be considered a kind of capital goods as defined in the passage?

A. A rail road.

B. Money.

C. A coal deposit.

D. Human skills.

4. The word "heading" in the last sentence is closest in meaning to ______.

A. Direction

B. practice

C. category

D. utility

5. What is the author's main purpose in writing this passage?

A. To explain the concept of labor.

B. To criticize certain uses of capital.

C. To contrast capital goods and consumer goods.

D. To define economic resources.

Passage 2 (15%)

In many ways, today's business environment has changed qualitatively since the late 1980s. The end of the Cold War radically altered the very nature of the world's politics and economics. In just a few short years, globalization has started a variety of trends with profound consequences: the opening of markets, true global competition, widespread deregulation of industry, and an abundance of accessible capital. We have experienced both the benefits and risks of a truly global economy, with both Wall Street and Main Street (平民百姓) feeling the pains of economic disorder half a world away.

At the same time, we have fully entered the Information Age. Startling breakthroughs in information technology have irreversibly altered the ability to conduct business unconstrained by the traditional limitations of time or space. Today, it's almost impossible to imagine a world without intranets, e-mail, and portable computers. With stunning speed, the Internet is profoundly changing the way we work, shop, do business, and communicate.

As a consequence, we have truly entered the Post-Industrial economy. We are rapidly shifting from an economy based on manufacturing and commodities to one that places the greatest value on information, services, support, and distribution. That shift, in turn, places an unprecedented premium on "knowledge workers," a new class of wealthy, educated, and mobile people who view themselves as free agents in a seller's market.

Beyond the realm of information technology, the accelerated pace of technological change in virtually every industry has created entirely new business, wiped out others, and produced a pervasive demand for continuous innovation. New product, process, and distribution technologies provide powerful levers for creating competitive value. More companies are learning the importance of destructive technologies—innovations that hold the potential to make a product line, or even an entire business segment, virtually outdated.

Another major trend has been the fragmentation of consumer and business markets. There's a growing appreciation that superficially similar groups of customers may have very different preferences in terms of what they want to buy and how they want to buy it. Now, new technology makes it easier, faster, and cheaper to identify and

serve targeted micro-markets in ways that were physically impossible or prohibitively expensive in the past. Moreover, the trend feeds on itself, a business's ability to serve sub-markets fuels customers' appetites for more and more specialized offerings. (386 words)

1. According to the first paragraph, the changes in the business environment in the past decades can be attributed to

______.

A. technological advances

B. worldwide economic disorder

C. the fierce competition in industry

D. the globalization of economy

2. What idea does the author want to convey in the second paragraph?

A. The rapid development of information technology has taken businessmen by surprise.

B. Information technology has removed the restrictions of time and space in business transactions.

C. The Internet, intranets, e-mail, and portable computers have penetrated every corner of the world.

D. The way we do business today has brought about startling breakthroughs in information technology.

3.If a business wants to thrive in the Post-Industrial economy, ______.

A. it has to invest more capital in the training of free agents to operate in a seller's market

B. it should try its best to satisfy the increasing demands of mobile knowledgeable people

C. it should not overlook the importance of information, services, support, and distribution

D. it has to provide each of its employees with the latest information about the changing market

4.In the author’s view, destructive technologies are innovations which ______.

A. can eliminate an entire business segment

B. demand a radical change in providing services

C. may destroy the potential of a company to make any profit

D. call for continuous improvement in ways of doing business

5. With the fragmentation of consumer and business markets ______.

A. an increasing number of companies have disintegrated

B. manufacturers must focus on one special product to remain competitive in the market

C. it is physically impossible and prohibitively expensive to do business in the old way

D. businesses have to meet individual customers' specific needs in order to succeed

VI. Translation 10%. Translate the following paragraph(s) into Chinese.

Since the days of the British colonial traders in Canton, China has inspired vast commercial hope (the billion-consumer market), doubt (but they’re mostly peasants) and dread (how to compete with all that cheap labor?).

Lately, however, the dread has overwhelmed the hope. The fear is that China’s rapid emergence as the “factory to the world” poses a threat to factories everywhere else, but they miss a dramatic recent turn in the data: demand in China is also booming, and in the early part of this year, imports have been growing faster than exports. ……In a recent study, Berkeley economist David Roland-Hoist shows that investment in China helps its neighbors in previously unrecognized ways, because its supply chain includes a growing network of contract producers across Asia. Every dollar spent in china is re-spent many times not only within the country, but also throughout the region, magnifying the effect of “a more liberal global trading environment,” says Roland-Hoist. (157 words)

对外经济贸易大学继续教育学院夜大教育部

2012-2013 学年第一学期

2011级英语/国贸专业专升本

《经贸报刊阅读》作业（A）

年级______ 专业______ 班级______ 姓名________ 学号______

题号Part I Part II Part III Part IV Part V Part VI 总分

得分

I. Multiple choice 20%.

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II. Term explanation 15%.

1. purchasing power parity

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III. Question(s) 20%.

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IV. Cloze 15%.

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V. Reading comprehension 20%.

Passage 1(5%)

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Passage 2 (15%)

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