全国2009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
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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,请将其代码填写在答题纸相应的位置上.错选、多选或未选均无分.
1. I will go back to confirm the aggregate demand of customers and contact you as soon as possible.
A. total
B. aggravate
C. serious
D. agglomerate

2. In an interview by the Newsweek, Chinese officials have promised to quicken the pace of reform.
A. slow down
B. keep
C. fasten
D. accelerate

3. Stock-taking of the open policy will come later this year when we discuss our future plan, which will run to the end of the next year.
A. Reviewing
B. Stock-buying
C. Conclusion
D. Purchasing

4. Oil has supplanted coffee as our main export.
A. supported
B. planted
C. replaced
D. supplemented

5. Since then much of the business has shifted to China, doing a hard blow to the South Korean shoe industry.
A. removed
B. accumulated
C. transacted
D. moved

6. In April, the EC imposed a ban on livestock, meat and dairy products from 18 eastern countries following an outbreak of hoof and mouth disease in Croatia.
A. levied a high tariff
B. shut out imports
C. adopted quota systems
D. limited the import volume

7. Asia's affectionate love with real estate has been stimulated by easy money and accommodative government policies.
A. compositional
B. preparatory
C. extensive
D. cooperative

8. A discrepancy which will probably amount to $10,000 has been found in the accounts of Edmund J. Smith, who until a month ago was the discount clerk and notary of the Merchants National Bank of this city.
A. difference
B. profit
C. deficit
D. balance

9. A day after terrorist bombs ripped through the commuter train system of India's financial capital here, business executives said the attack would have little effect on India's buoyant economy.
A. buying
B. rising
C. declining
D. descending

10. Stocks finished a seesaw session mixed yesterday as investors grappled with weaker—than—expected economic data and weighed the chances that the Federal Reserve would lower interest rates.
A. back-and-forth
B. decreasing
C. weaker
D. worse

11. The Raines bill must be amended or, in the judgment of some attorneys, it will contain no provision for wholesalers' licenses in several cities of the State.
A. nutrition
B. preparation
C. settlement
D. arrangement

12. South Korea has joined Thailand, Singapore, India and other Asian nations in the lucrative business of medical tourism.
A. smooth
B. profitable
C. substantial
D. sophisticated

13. These debtor countries could be hurt by any economic weakness that might stem from the stock market declines in the industrial nations that provide markets for their commodities and manufactured goods.
A. creditor
B. loaner
C. purchaser
D. borrower

14. That was the fear around the comics blogosphere last week when word spread of a policy change from Diamond Comic Distributors, the world's dominant distributor of English-language comic books.
A. seller
B. contributor
C. owner
D. leader

15. In the center of the vortex is Citigroup, whose precipitous stock-market plunge sped up on Thursday, sending shock waves through the financial world.
A. precarious
B. falling sharply
C. perspiring
D. increasing quickly

三、将下列汉语词组译成英文（本大题共10小题,每小题1分,共10分）
26. 海关税
27. 易货贸易
28. 外汇储备
29. 优惠税率
30. 证券市场
31. 收盘价
32. 经纪业
33. 可兑换货币
34. 主要供应商
35. 汇率

四、简答题（本大题共 6小题,每小题 3分,共 18分）
Passage 1
"Sweat": In this sense, South Korea is treading a path not taken by Japan. While Japanese interests span the globe, few foreign firms have successfully penetrated Japan's home turf. Korea, too, has a legacy of xenophobia; and the Koreans are clearly wary of opening their markets to highpowered Western competitors. But they are tentatively doing just that, so far with a momentum unmatched by Japan. The aim is to defuse the protectionist pressures that have hobbled U.S-Japanese trade relations and, in time, to enter the ranks of the world's developed nations. That's no small order, but the Koreans think it can be filled fairly simply. At bottom, says Nam Duc Woo, chairman of the Korea Traders Association, South Korea needs only "some degree of sweat and

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