2003年4月山东自考外刊经贸知识选读真题00096

全国2003年4月高等教育自学考试

外刊经贸知识选读试题

课程代码：00096

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