The world largest buyer () its production potential.全球最大的买家在开发自身的产品潜
A.pets
B.taps
C.types
D.tunes
A.pets
B.taps
C.types
D.tunes
第1题
A.abuse
B.abide
C.abused
D.abet
第2题
A.A. non-government organization
B.B. international organization
C.C. private body
D.D. world trade organization
第3题
A.recovery
B.event
C.potential
D.trend
第4题
第5题
A.people
B.residents
C.population
D.number
第6题
A
Not all anniversaries are landmarks. And yet, ten years after China joined the World Trade Organization, it is impossible to overlook the consequences of this momentous decision on the global economy.
Those present in 2001 will recall how difficult the negotiation process was, in fact, it was extraordinary that they even reached an agreement.
The US benefited from the deal but it was far from being the biggest winner. China scooped the largest prize. In areas such as agricultural goods, trade liberalization was nothing short of dramatic. By entering the WTO, Beijing could adopt aspects of international commercial law which would have been more difficult to introduce because of domestic constraints.
The sheer size of China's export market is the most powerful testimony to Beijing's success. But other countries benefited too. Since Beijing' s emergence on the stage of world trade, commerce between emerging markets has enjoyed a significant boost. It can only be a good thing that less developed countries are now trading with each other rather than relying only on Western partners.
B
As for the rich world, the accession of China to the WTO has created new challenges. Consumers have enjoyed cheap Chinese goods. At the same time, European and US companies have struggled to keep pace with ever stiffer competition.
There were also macroeconomic consequences. The low prices of Chinese imports meant that it was easier for central banks in developed countries to meet their inflation targets. This triggered the cuts in interest rates which, in turn, helped to cause an unsustainable credit boom. Now that the bubble has burst, the consequences of China's entry in the trade arena have become painfully apparent.
Ten years on, the future outlook remains mixed. Chinese trade policy still has not evolved sufficiently. Beijing is determined not to let its currency appreciate as it should do. Though there have been modest steps forward in its exchange rate policy, the world's economy is still far from seeing the problems associated with global imbalances resolved.
As for "win-win", well, China is certainly winning. In 2000 it was the world's seventh largest exporter and eighth largest importer of merchandise; in 2010 it was number one and two, respectively. But, as America's increasingly critical assessments of China' s WTO compliance suggests, those trading partners do not always feel like winners. During its relatively brief membership, the world' s second-largest economy has responded to 22 complaints-more than the next three put together.
C
The WTO Secretariat's China Trade Policy Review 2010 had the following summary. At a time of heightened trade tensions around the world as governments manage the economic consequences of last year' s global recession and 12 percent drop in world trade flows, this Trade Policy Review (TPR) of China has highlighted the valuable role that the WTO' s TPR Mechanism plays by increasing transparency, encouraging consultation and cooperation among WTO Members, and helping to avoid misunderstandings and, ultimately, trade disputes when trade frictions arise.
A well-functioning multilateral trading system has contributed considerably to China's sustainable economic growth and development. The global recession had a substantial adverse impact on China's economy as external demand fell sharply from the end of 2008.
The Government' s response of expansionary fiscal and monetary policies, including a Y4 trillion (1334 of 2008 GDP) stimulus package, helped China's economic growth to rebound in 2009 and made an important contribution to global recovery elsewhere, particularly in the Asia region.
D
The global economic crisis has reinforced China's determination to transform.its pattern of economic development, including through structural diversification, improving the functioning of the domestic capital market and strengthening social safety nets for the population. Looking ahead, as the Government pursues policies to increase the role of domestic demand in underwriting China' s growth and to encourage the expansion of the services sector, further liberalization of the trade and investment regimes is called for to foster competition and achieve more efficient allocation of resources in the economy.
There was widespread recognition of China's constructive role in resisting protectionist pressures and boosting global demand during the recent economic downturn, appreciation for China's stepped-up involvement in South-South trade and its duty-free scheme for imports from least-developed countries, and acknowledgment that China has continued the gradual liberalization of its trade and investment regimes, although several members felt that this had slowed down compared to its pace in earlier years.
Now match the statements (1-7) to the letter (A, B, C or B).
1. The accession to WTO helps China to make its commercial law more internationally viable.
2. The global economic crisis has made China's determination to transform. its pattern of economic development even stronger.
3. China has made efforts to adjust its foreign exchange rate but the western countries are still not satisfied.
4. As part of the stimulus package, Chinese government made the 4 trillion RMB investment decision towards the end of 2008.
5. It is widely recognized that China has enhanced its involvement in South-South trade and imported more goods from least-developed countries duty-free.
6. WTO's Trade Policy Review Mechanism plays a positive role in increasing transparency, encouraging consultation and cooperation among WTO Members.
7. China's entry to the WTO enabled European and American consumers to enjoy inexpensive Chinese goods, but their companies are meeting with more severe competition.
第7题
What is the text mainly about?
A.The New Seven Wonders of the world.
B.The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
C.Bernard Weber"s attempt to update information.
D.The three new wonders of the world.
第8题
根据下面内容,回答题:
Have you ever heard of a flower whose seeds are carried and spread by elephants? The rafflesia, a rare blossom, is very unusual. Found in the rain forests of Sumatra, the rafflesia is the world"s largest flower, measuring three feet in diameter!
This giant flower is a parasite——it needs another plant to live on. It lacks the structures needed to survive alone, The rafflesia has no stem or leaves. It is all flower. It attaches itself to the roots of other plants and sucks their juices. The flower"s favorite home is the root of the vine, which grows above ground.
The rafflesia seems to burst right out of the forest floor. Its blossom weighs fifteen pounds ! It has thick, spotted petals that give off a rotten smell. The center is about the size of a household bucket.
After a rain, it may hold up to twelve pints of water!
After the rafflesia dies, it becomes a pool of thick liquid in which its seeds float. Elephants wandering through the forest step into the mushy pool, and the seeds glue themselves to their feet. As the animals stomp through the forest, their sticky feet pick up twigs and leaves. The elephants try to rid themselves of the sticky mess, in the same way people try to get bubble gum off their shoes. The elephants rub their feet against the roots of the vine. In no time, seeds left on the vine grow into more monstrous flowers !
Elephants help to________. 查看材料
A.provide food for the giant flower
B.water the rafflesia with their trunks
C.carry rafflesia seeds from one place to another
D.stomp out the awful smelling petals
第9题
At 13 years old, Keith Peiris is the world's youngest CEO(Chief Executive Officer). But he says that there is nothing different about him compared to other children his age.
Keith launched(开办)a website for his own company at the age of 10. While other children were receiving awards for their achievements, Peiris was giving scholarships from Cyberteks Design, his own company, to pupils at his school.
Though he's just a teenager, he is already experiencing the pains of adult life.
Peiris is about 1.5 metres tall with big brown eyes and curly (卷曲的)jet-black hair. "His big eyes show his intelligence. They show his wisdom," said Christine St Pierre, a journalist from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
When he was asked for an exclusive (独家的)interview, Peiris looked at his watch and said, "20 minutes, 30 minutes at most, OK?"
He has the air of a real businessman who treasures every minute of his time.
Cyberteks Design mainly serves North America. But since Peiris visited China, he said he would try to find a way to cater for(迎合) China's Shanghai market as well.
"China is growing and in the next 10 to 20 years it will be among the top countries for business. Now China's become a member of the WTO, Shanghai will have more business opportunities ," said the young businessman.
"At the moment it is hard to compete with local companies in Shanghai because of the cost, especially of hardware."
"At first, my age will be the largest issue, but in the end that won't be important," he added, "Once I get more and more clients(客户),we will build a reputation(信誉) and people will take me more seriously."
Peiris answers questions quickly and is very articulate (表达能力强的)for his age. He said he had come to know Shanghai pretty well through TV programmes shown on CNN before his trip.
He added, "When I was about five, my father gave me my own computer and started teaching me a few things about how to use it. I have not seen any parents do that for their children."
Keith Peiris is now ______.
A.a student
B.CEO of a company
C.doing business in Shanghai
D.both A and B
第10题
Most languages of Europe except for Basque, Hungarian, or Finnish and the languages of Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India belong to the Indo-European language family. Four of the five official languages of the United Nations are Indo-European (English, French, Russian, and Spanish are Indo-European). It has twelve branches: Romance, Germanic, Slavic, Baltic, Celtic, Iranian, Indic, Tocharian, Anatolian, Armenian, Greek and Albanian. Germanic group includes English, German, Yiddish, Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, Dutch and a few others. Germanic group shares its similarities in vocabulary and phonology and some are mutually intelligible. With about 350 million speakers, English is spoken in many countries such as the British Isles, the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, being the second most spoken language in the world after Chinese. Romance Group includes French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, and Romanian among which Spanish is the third most spoken language in the world. These languages are also closely related to each other.
There are various theories about how Indo-European languages came to spread out to Europe and Western Asia, but the most dominant one presumes that the Indo-European language family originated from the Black Sea during the Neolithic period about 7000BC, spreading west to Europe between 3500BC and 2500BC, south to the Mediterranean, north to Scandinavia, and east to India.
Scattered throughout Asia and Europe are a few smaller language families among which the Altaic Family is named after the Alti Mountains, in Central Asia where nomadic people lived in the plains. Of the three branches of Altaic, Turkic ranges from Anatolia to the Volga basin and central Asia; Mongolian from China and Mongolia to the lower Volga and Afghanistan; Manchu-Tungus from the northern coast of northeastern Siberia to the Amur and to the Yenisei. Korean and Japanese languages are assumed to be remotely related to the Altaic language family, but it is still controversial. Some scholars consider the Altaic languages are related to the Uralic languages and group them as a larger Ural-Altaic language family, but there has been too little evidence to support this.
Included in the Sino-Tibetan family are about 300 East Asian languages, which are divided into a Sinitic Group and a Tibeto-Burman group. The Sinitic group includes a dozen languages among which Mandarin, spoken by about 700 million people in northern China, is the official language of the People's Republic of China. The Tibeto-Burman group includes many rarely spoken languages, among which are Burmese and Tibetan. The Sino-Tibetan language family has the largest number of speakers, estimated to have 1 billion speakers.
In addition to the three above mentioned language families, there are other language families such as the Austronesian family, the Afroasiatic family, the Uralic family, the Malayo-Polynesian family and the Caucasian family. A very large majority of the people in the world speaks languages which belong to only one family. There are, however, also languages that cannot be classified into any family known as language isolates.
第11题
OPEC to Increase Production
VIENNA (Reuters) OPEC oil exporters agreed to raise output limits on Tuesday but second largest producer Iran, fearing a slump in oil prices, opted out of the deal.
The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries said nine members, excluding Iran, would immediately turn up the taps to 1.45 million barrels daily, or seven percent, easing output curbs made a year ago.
The pact came after heavy pressure from OPEC's biggest customer the United States to ease the price of oil and avert a slowdown in economic growth in the West.
Saudi Oil Minister Ali al--Naimi said he hoped to see the price of North Sea Brent in the range of $20-$25 a barrel.
"This decision was made in the interests of producers and consumers in a prudent way. It will have a positive impact and moderate prices," he said.
Iran, outside the pact, said it would raise production in any case, though not by as much as under the quota it was offered.
Iranian Oil Minister Bijan Zanganeh said he saw room for only one million barrels a day of extra oil. He said Tehran saw no shortage in the market.
"Our differences are on principles, and not only a few barrels," Zanganeh told reporters after the meeting had closed.
"OPEC is not a political organization," he added.
He had complained during the two-day OPEC meeting of "political pressure". OPEC delegates said that was an apparent reference to the United States which launched a diplomatic offensive to get OPEC to raise supplies and lower oil prices on the world market.
In Washington, President Clinton said of extra supply: "In the aggregate it could be sufficient to get production and consumption back in alignment," he said.
Analysts said they expected oil prices, already on the slide from recent highs, falling quickly into the $20-$25 range.
"This will mean extra supply and have a negative impact on oil prices," said Gary Rose of Petroleum Industry Research Associates.
"We're going to see a stock build in the second quarter. I would not be surprised to see Brent at $21-$22.”
Rose said: "The United States was pressing hard for a substantial increase and most in OPEC were in favor of a big increase." Iran has expressed its displeasure at this political.
Non-OPEC Mexico and Norway, having cooperated with OPEC in cutting exports when prices crashed, are shortly expected to announce their own increases.
1. () Iran will raise production at all, but less than it was offered under the quota.
2. () Iranian Oil Minister Bijan Zanganeh said the market could absorb 1.45 million barrels of extra oil a day at present.
3. () President Clinton said the new agreement could bring production back to the same level as consumption.
4. () Industry analysts said that the extra oil could have a positive effect on the oil market.
5.() Non-OPEC oil producers such as Mexico and Norway have been competing fiercely with OPEC for world market over the years.