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一、单选题（共 25 道试题，共 100 分。） V 1. By imposing austerity ___troubled Asian nations, the IMF may actually be exacerbating the situation.
A. on
B. in
C. with
D. at
2. The change of the plan would ______treat inconvenience on them.
A. entail
B. detail
C. cocktail
D. retail
3. Several Asian countries are so deep in debt that they had to go to the ___ for help.
A. WTO
B. UN
C. USA
D. IMF
4. Six years into the economic expansion of the 1990s, and the living is easy. Almost 3 million jobs have been added over the past year alone, and consumer confidence is ______.
A. falling
B. dropping
C. raising
D. soaring
5. ___ of Anwar, the opposition may end up retreating in confusion.
A. Deprived
B. To deprive
C. depriving
D. Deprive
6. For years, she ______the hope that her husband might still be alive.
A. valued
B. cherished
C. treasured
D. grasped
7. That leaves the conglomerate ___ the upper hand.
A. behind
B. in
C. with
D. to
8. China’s __ of the Renminbi in 1994 signals the end of the game to some degree.
A. revaluation
B. appreciation
C. depreciation
D. devaluation
9. Back then, when unemployment fell below 6.5%, inflation ______ .
A. got up
B. shut down
C. took off
D. put on
10. Company coffers are brimming ____ profits.
A. with
B. over
C. of
D. for
11. He had made noises advocating environment reform that ____ opposition from Mahathir.
A. ran into
B. ran across
C. ran about
D. ran after
12. Still, most Americans and Europeans are surprisingly ____ about Asia’s turmoil.
A. sanguine
B. sanguinary
C. sanguinolent
D. stagnant
13. A deadbeat can hang _____ a piece of property for five years before a bank can claim it.
A. onto
B. up
C. down
D. off
14. Structural bottlenecks bureaucratic resistance and labor ___ slow or even thwart reform.
A. issues
B. events
C. things
D. incidents
15. He would move from the company’s headquarters in Turin to take ____ operations in faraway Brazil.
A. up
B. over
C. in
D. out
16. Mr. Snow ______ $20 for the horse, so I $21 for the horse.
A. paid
B. bid
C. expended
D. paid off
17. Fiat’s campaign to win this war has been ____, which makes other companies to follow its example.
A. instructive
B. inviting
C. industrious
D. inductive
18. Corporate Japan is turning ______ itself, with the strong dumping the weak.
A. on
B. off
C. down
D. up
19. In early January, Indonesian, President Suharto outlined ___ appending plans that defied moves demanded by the IMF.
A. ambitious
B. anxious
C. coward
D. amerceable
20. Computers in ____ sectors have seen their shares tumble some 10%since the start of the year.
A. protecting
B. protected
C. kept
D. keeping
21. As the Nikkei’s latest nightmare suggests, making the transition to an economy in which government ____ less and the market counts for more will not be fun.
A. encroaches
B. invades
C. intrudes
D. infringes
22. As the task force nears the end of its life it will probably want to create some permanent agency, perhaps under the aegis of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation ______ to enforce the agreed upon rules.
A. symmetry
B. forum
C. foam
D. summary
23. Information technology has doubtless _____ the stability of business operations.
A. enhanced
B. raised
C. increased
D. rose
24. That could be enough to ______Greenspan to relax.
A. confirm
B. persuade
C. suggest
D. insist
25. Economists fear political concerns will have the government intervening __ the stock market.
A. on
B. upon
C. in
D. with
一、单选题（共 25 道试题，共 100 分。） V 1. President of Fiat in 1992 unexpectedly slashed taxes ____ what were dubbed “popular cars”.
A. at
B. with
C. of
D. on
2. But he also wants to hike the national sales tax from 3% to 5% and ______an income-tax break enacted in 1995.
A. cancel
B. repeal
C. reject
D. refuse
3. Although meant to be ___, this incantation is dangerously misleading.
A. comforting
B. encouraging
C. inspiring
D. heartening
4. By imposing austerity ___troubled Asian nations, the IMF may actually be exacerbating the situation.
A. on
B. in
C. with
D. at
5. The change of the plan would ______treat inconvenience on them.
A. entail
B. detail
C. cocktail
D. retail
6. Companies are using computers to boost workers’ ______.
A. production
B. produce
C. product
D. productivity
7. Thailand announced a bank reconstructuring plan last month, but none of the banks ____has agreed to it.
A. by far
B. so far
C. so far as
D. far from
8. Certainly, if Mahathir’s policies to bolster Malaysia Inc. fail to improve the economy, he will be increasingly _____ to attack.
A. sensitive
B. vulnerable
C. opposed
D. exposed
9. In paticular, world leaders must stop trying to export its way out of trouble ___of the rest of Asia.
A. at the expense of
B. at the head of
C. at the instance of
D. at the hand of
10. ___ would be the bad banking practices, the cronyism, and the political favoritism.
A. Going
B. Go
C. Gone
D. Goes
11. Sometimes, ______ productivity has nothing to do with machines-high-or low-tech.
A. improving
B. improve
C. improved
D. bettered
12. Many subsidiaries could be spun ____ to professional managers.
A. out
B. with
C. on
D. off
13. More than a year later, politicians throughout the region are choosing to ___ painful choices.
A. do away with
B. steer clear of
C. deal with
D. get accustomed to
14. Small businesses have to depend ____ the health of large companies for their livelihood..
A. on
B. for
C. with
D. in
15. Tax cuts and creation of a social safety net should ____ a breakup of large industrial and financial groups.
A. be combined by
B. be confined to
C. be coupled with
D. be cabled by
16. It would ____ not only short-term fixes but also measures to help shape the Tigers for a global economy.
A. enforce
B. entail
C. enable
D. entitle
17. Millions of workers in some Asian countries have been ___ as a result of IMF terms.
A. laid aside
B. laid back
C. put away
D. laid off
18. For years, she ______the hope that her husband might still be alive.
A. valued
B. cherished
C. treasured
D. grasped
19. High-tech executives are also counting ___ competitive pressure forcing corporations to continue spending on information technology even in a recession.
A. on
B. in
C. off
D. out
20. The 40% ______of the yen against the dollar is helping the comeback. But the multinationals are gaining even more advantages from their production bases that have sprung up around the world.
A. depreciation
B. appreciation
C. discrimination
D. depression
21. Structural bottlenecks bureaucratic resistance and labor ___ slow or even thwart reform.
A. issues
B. events
C. things
D. incidents
22. Fiat’s grand strategists convened in Turin and decided that a new round of globalization was more ____ than before.
A. emergent
B. imperative
C. inductive
D. instructive
23. He quickly discovered that Brazil, rather than being some stagnant backwater, was an auto market ______with growth.
A. exploding
B. exploiting
C. exploring
D. expanding
24. At each step along the way, economic pessimists warned that the economy was about ____ tumble into a yawning chasm.
A. into
B. to
C. on
D. for
25. A move is ____ in Congress to oppose U.S. help.
A. in the way
B. under way
C. out of the way
D. across the way
一、单选题（共 25 道试题，共 100 分。） V 1. As long as productivity is ____ the upswing, employers will be able to pay higher wages without having to pass the costs on in price hikes.
A. on
B. in
C. under
D. behind
2. The boy asked his mother to _____ him up so that he could look in the window.
A. boast
B. booth
C. boost
D. booze
3. Many dispirited traders ____ out of the Tokyo Stock Exchange because of fall of the Nikkei stock average.
A. streamed
B. crowed
C. scattered
D. strode
4. But he also wants to hike the national sales tax from 3% to 5% and ______an income-tax break enacted in 1995.
A. cancel
B. repeal
C. reject
D. refuse
5. ___ competition from Japan and China, export growth in the rest of Asia fell from a peak of 30% in early 1995 to zero by mid-1996.
A. In advance of
B. In aid of
C. In the face of
D. In back of
6. If the stagnant economy actually goes into recession, Hashimoto will face pressures to ease up ___ his fiscal reform.
A. to
B. for
C. with
D. on
7. That realization is shaking ____ the stock market.
A. up
B. down
C. off
D. out
8. Growth has ____ to an average rate of 4% from about 2% in 1995.
A. accelerated
B. promoted
C. quickened
D. advanced
9. Put another way, the upshift in productivity means, remarkably, that rising profits, growing wages, and low inflation can ______as they have not in the past 25 years.
A. corrode
B. cooperate
C. coexist
D. coincide
10. Brazilian auto analysts say it’s only a matter of time before it ______ Volkswagen, which holds 29.1% of the market, to become No.1. “Fiat has clearly done a marvelous job of coming from third place to threaten VW,” says Francisco H. Passos Fernandes, a d
A. exceed
B. overtake
C. lag
D. surpass
11. Economists fear political concerns will have the government intervening __ the stock market.
A. on
B. upon
C. in
D. with
12. As the task force nears the end of its life it will probably want to create some permanent agency, perhaps under the aegis of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation ______ to enforce the agreed upon rules.
A. symmetry
B. forum
C. foam
D. summary
13. Now the same players are dragging their feet ____ reform and defying political pressure to clean up their acts.
A. on
B. to
C. for
D. with
14. It is free market and it controls most of the ___ of savings to investment.
A. curving
B. direction
C. flow
D. stream
15. Higher productivity also means that the economy may be _____ of sustaining 5% unemployment rates or lower without triggering inflation.
A. capable
B. able
C. interested
D. efficient
16. By imposing austerity ___troubled Asian nations, the IMF may actually be exacerbating the situation.
A. on
B. in
C. with
D. at
17. Companies are using computers to boost workers’ ______.
A. production
B. produce
C. product
D. productivity
18. Six years into the economic expansion of the 1990s, and the living is easy. Almost 3 million jobs have been added over the past year alone, and consumer confidence is ______.
A. falling
B. dropping
C. raising
D. soaring
19. In a desperate effort to keep things afloat, Asian companies dramatically ___ their short-term bank borrowings.
A. increased
B. decreased
C. rose
D. reduced
20. Small businesses have to depend ____ the health of large companies for their livelihood..
A. on
B. for
C. with
D. in
21. Knowing that he had been permitted to study by Harvard University, he was too excited to ______on the phone.
A. coherent
B. coincidental
C. identical
D. same
22. As they ____ over their options, all roads eventually led to Brazil.
A. pored
B. calculated
C. considered
D. judged
23. He quickly discovered that Brazil, rather than being some stagnant backwater, was an auto market ______with growth.
A. exploding
B. exploiting
C. exploring
D. expanding
24. Looking further out, Gartner Group Inc. ______that spending on hardware and software will rise by about 8% annually for the rest of the decade.
A. produces
B. projects
C. propels
D. promotes
25. She _____ her eyes from the ugly sight.
A. averted
B. avoided
C. holded
D. closed
一、单选题（共 25 道试题，共 100 分。） V 1. Bureaucrats now _____ their recent efforts to spur the economy.
A. conceal
B. concede
C. confess
D. conceive
2. Sometimes a bureaucrat’s ___ ruling can mean denial or loss of one’s welfare benefits.
A. absolute
B. arbitrary
C. impersonal
D. objective
3. At each step along the way, economic pessimists warned that the economy was about ____ tumble into a yawning chasm.
A. into
B. to
C. on
D. for
4. The couple made their ____ before a parish priest.
A. opening remarks
B. thoughts
C. vows
D. emotions
5. Growth has ____ to an average rate of 4% from about 2% in 1995.
A. accelerated
B. promoted
C. quickened
D. advanced
6. ____ some point, holding this kind of conference is unnecessary.
A. To
B. At
C. With
D. For
7. Looking further out, Gartner Group Inc. ______that spending on hardware and software will rise by about 8% annually for the rest of the decade.
A. produces
B. projects
C. propels
D. promotes
8. The change of the plan would ______treat inconvenience on them.
A. entail
B. detail
C. cocktail
D. retail
9. For example, consumer spending and office construction far ______the rest of the economy during the 1980s.
A. outpaced
B. outcome
C. outbreak
D. outraged
10. Brazil became the key ____ Fiat’s new globalization strategy.
A. of
B. to
C. for
D. with
11. It’s a good means of ____ the students’ knowledge.
A. growing
B. exploding
C. extending
D. accepting
12. So far, economists have____ one percentage point off their estimates for global growth in 1998.
A. gotten rid of
B. shaved
C. done away with
D. broken away from
13. Still, most Americans and Europeans are surprisingly ____ about Asia’s turmoil.
A. sanguine
B. sanguinary
C. sanguinolent
D. stagnant
14. Information technology has doubtless _____ the stability of business operations.
A. enhanced
B. raised
C. increased
D. rose
15. It’s a ______ that in such a rich country there should be so many poor dispute.
A. paradox
B. hypothesis
C. conflict
D. dispute
16. In early January, Indonesian, President Suharto outlined ___ appending plans that defied moves demanded by the IMF.
A. ambitious
B. anxious
C. coward
D. amerceable
17. Computers are not the only capital _____ that have a payoff.
A. goods
B. good
C. merchandise
D. commodities
18. The boy asked his mother to _____ him up so that he could look in the window.
A. boast
B. booth
C. boost
D. booze
19. A deadbeat can hang _____ a piece of property for five years before a bank can claim it.
A. onto
B. up
C. down
D. off
20. Brazilian auto analysts say it’s only a matter of time before it ______ Volkswagen, which holds 29.1% of the market, to become No.1. “Fiat has clearly done a marvelous job of coming from third place to threaten VW,” says Francisco H. Passos Fernandes, a d
A. exceed
B. overtake
C. lag
D. surpass
21. In one ______the auto-making market in Brazil was changed forever.
A. stroke
B. stick
C. stone
D. stock
22. Thailand announced a bank reconstructuring plan last month, but none of the banks ____has agreed to it.
A. by far
B. so far
C. so far as
D. far from
23. By imposing austerity ___troubled Asian nations, the IMF may actually be exacerbating the situation.
A. on
B. in
C. with
D. at
24. The 40% ______of the yen against the dollar is helping the comeback. But the multinationals are gaining even more advantages from their production bases that have sprung up around the world.
A. depreciation
B. appreciation
C. discrimination
D. depression
25. Optimists figure that ongoing surge in U.S. production, employment, and exports to other regions will largely ______trade with Indonesia or Thailand.
A. upset
B. offset
C. outset
D. preset
一、单选题（共 25 道试题，共 100 分。） V 1. He quickly discovered that Brazil, rather than being some stagnant backwater, was an auto market ______with growth.
A. exploding
B. exploiting
C. exploring
D. expanding
2. It’s a good means of ____ the students’ knowledge.
A. growing
B. exploding
C. extending
D. accepting
3. Many dispirited traders ____ out of the Tokyo Stock Exchange because of fall of the Nikkei stock average.
A. streamed
B. crowed
C. scattered
D. strode
4. The 40% ______of the yen against the dollar is helping the comeback. But the multinationals are gaining even more advantages from their production bases that have sprung up around the world.
A. depreciation
B. appreciation
C. discrimination
D. depression
5. In a desperate effort to keep things afloat, Asian companies dramatically ___ their short-term bank borrowings.
A. increased
B. decreased
C. rose
D. reduced
6. Growth has ____ to an average rate of 4% from about 2% in 1995.
A. accelerated
B. promoted
C. quickened
D. advanced
7. Brazilian auto analysts say it’s only a matter of time before it ______ Volkswagen, which holds 29.1% of the market, to become No.1. “Fiat has clearly done a marvelous job of coming from third place to threaten VW,” says Francisco H. Passos Fernandes, a d
A. exceed
B. overtake
C. lag
D. surpass
8. It ___ the main problem is financial mismanagement.
A. suggests
B. implies
C. means
D. signifies
9. ___ competition from Japan and China, export growth in the rest of Asia fell from a peak of 30% in early 1995 to zero by mid-1996.
A. In advance of
B. In aid of
C. In the face of
D. In back of
10. A deadbeat can hang _____ a piece of property for five years before a bank can claim it.
A. onto
B. up
C. down
D. off
11. High-tech profits ______stock prices, making investors more willing to spend. And rising wages and bonuses for high-tech workers finance the purchases of new cars and homes.
A. rise
B. arise
C. boost
D. carry
12. Put another way, the upshift in productivity means, remarkably, that rising profits, growing wages, and low inflation can ______as they have not in the past 25 years.
A. corrode
B. cooperate
C. coexist
D. coincide
13. A move is ____ in Congress to oppose U.S. help.
A. in the way
B. under way
C. out of the way
D. across the way
14. Once ______ as digital slackers, Japanese consumer-electronics giants such as Sony, Toshiba, and Hitachi have been every bit as aggressive as the automakers in fighting for global market share.
A. written down
B. written on
C. written off
D. written about
15. In HK most fortunes have been made in ___, a highly regulated sector.
A. finance
B. logistics
C. real estate
D. securities
16. Cisco now handles 70% of the support calls it receives without human intervention , ______ the Web.
A. across
B. via
C. in
D. without
17. Federal budget talks were _____ a standstill until May 3.
A. on
B. in
C. at
D. with
18. Instead, local magnates are objecting ___ the terms of privatization.
A. at
B. for
C. with
D. to
19. As the Nikkei’s latest nightmare suggests, making the transition to an economy in which government ____ less and the market counts for more will not be fun.
A. encroaches
B. invades
C. intrudes
D. infringes
20. Mahathir sacked Anwar in part because he ____ changes to that cozy relationship.
A. called on
B. called for
C. called away
D. called back
21. And with suppliers increasingly spread out in Mexico, the Far East, and Europe, the impact of an increase in auto sales, say, is ______globally.
A. infected
B. distributed
C. issued
D. diffused
22. The argument between the two boys became so fierce that Dad had to ______and tell them to behave.
A. inhabit
B. interact
C. intervene
D. inherit
23. Several Asian countries are so deep in debt that they had to go to the ___ for help.
A. WTO
B. UN
C. USA
D. IMF
24. Company coffers are brimming ____ profits.
A. with
B. over
C. of
D. for
25. Sometimes, ______ productivity has nothing to do with machines-high-or low-tech.
A. improving
B. improve
C. improved
D. bettered
一、单选题（共 25 道试题，共 100 分。） V 1. As long as the red tape remains, corruption will ____.
A. persist
B. resist
C. pursue
D. insist
2. Hanwa Bank was sinking under the ____ of $100 million in bad property loans last fall.
A. weight
B. weigh
C. heaviness
D. heavy
3. Many of Asia’s banks cannot meet their short-term commitments to overseas lenders or extend credit to ______local borrowers.
A. need
B. needing
C. needed
D. needy
4. Computers in ____ sectors have seen their shares tumble some 10%since the start of the year.
A. protecting
B. protected
C. kept
D. keeping
5. Looking further out, Gartner Group Inc. ______that spending on hardware and software will rise by about 8% annually for the rest of the decade.
A. produces
B. projects
C. propels
D. promotes
6. For now, the world is breathing a bit easier. By mid-January, the South Korean crisis seemed to stabilize, Suharto was making conciliatory gestures to foreign bankers, and Asian stocks and currencies were starting to ______back.
A. bound
B. boundary
C. bounce
D. booth
7. But he also wants to hike the national sales tax from 3% to 5% and ______an income-tax break enacted in 1995.
A. cancel
B. repeal
C. reject
D. refuse
8. The company saw _____ rise 21% in the first quarter, despite a 1% decline in revenues.
A. earning
B. payroll
C. payrolls
D. earnings
9. She _____ her eyes from the ugly sight.
A. averted
B. avoided
C. holded
D. closed
10. Certainly, if Mahathir’s policies to bolster Malaysia Inc. fail to improve the economy, he will be increasingly _____ to attack.
A. sensitive
B. vulnerable
C. opposed
D. exposed
11. President of Fiat in 1992 unexpectedly slashed taxes ____ what were dubbed “popular cars”.
A. at
B. with
C. of
D. on
12. Building and ______a political consensus for bailing out Asia will likely be the biggest and most complex foreign-policy challenge facing Clinton in the remainder of his term.
A. holding up
B. holding together
C. holding with
D. holding on
13. Corporate Japan is turning ______ itself, with the strong dumping the weak.
A. on
B. off
C. down
D. up
14. He would move from the company’s headquarters in Turin to take ____ operations in faraway Brazil.
A. up
B. over
C. in
D. out
15. Many dispirited traders ____ out of the Tokyo Stock Exchange because of fall of the Nikkei stock average.
A. streamed
B. crowed
C. scattered
D. strode
16. The company just finished ______ automated defect-removal systems in the last of its nine U.S. potato plants.
A. installing
B. to install
C. to set
D. setting
17. Brazil became the key ____ Fiat’s new globalization strategy.
A. of
B. to
C. for
D. with
18. He quickly discovered that Brazil, rather than being some stagnant backwater, was an auto market ______with growth.
A. exploding
B. exploiting
C. exploring
D. expanding
19. Once ______ as digital slackers, Japanese consumer-electronics giants such as Sony, Toshiba, and Hitachi have been every bit as aggressive as the automakers in fighting for global market share.
A. written down
B. written on
C. written off
D. written about
20. As the Nikkei’s latest nightmare suggests, making the transition to an economy in which government ____ less and the market counts for more will not be fun.
A. encroaches
B. invades
C. intrudes
D. infringes
21. The ____ crisis highlights the strategic missteps of Seoul’s policymakers.
A. profound
B. superficial
C. superior
D. sharp
22. Mr. Snow ______ $20 for the horse, so I $21 for the horse.
A. paid
B. bid
C. expended
D. paid off
23. Over the past three years, the amount of money spent on home computers has risen by 55%, far___ income growth.
A. in a bind of
B. in a manner of
C. in excess of
D. in a position to
24. In one ______the auto-making market in Brazil was changed forever.
A. stroke
B. stick
C. stone
D. stock
25. Six years into the economic expansion of the 1990s, and the living is easy. Almost 3 million jobs have been added over the past year alone, and consumer confidence is ______.
A. falling
B. dropping
C. raising
D. soaring
一、单选题（共 25 道试题，共 100 分。） V 1. The Asian countries will remain so mired in the old ways of doing business that reform will ___.
A. found
B. founder
C. find
D. founded
2. It would ____ not only short-term fixes but also measures to help shape the Tigers for a global economy.
A. enforce
B. entail
C. enable
D. entitle
3. Building and ______a political consensus for bailing out Asia will likely be the biggest and most complex foreign-policy challenge facing Clinton in the remainder of his term.
A. holding up
B. holding together
C. holding with
D. holding on
4. One of ___great insights was the paradox of savings.
A. Keynes'
B. Samuelson's
C. Friedman's
D. Smith's
5. Cisco now handles 70% of the support calls it receives without human intervention , ______ the Web.
A. across
B. via
C. in
D. without
6. That _____ productivity paradox now seems to be over.
A. so calling
B. so-calling
C. so-called
D. so called
7. For example, consumer spending and office construction far ______the rest of the economy during the 1980s.
A. outpaced
B. outcome
C. outbreak
D. outraged
8. Several Asian countries are so deep in debt that they had to go to the ___ for help.
A. WTO
B. UN
C. USA
D. IMF
9. In paticular, world leaders must stop trying to export its way out of trouble ___of the rest of Asia.
A. at the expense of
B. at the head of
C. at the instance of
D. at the hand of
10. Engineer is an ____ post in Fiat.
A. industrious
B. illustrious
C. noteless
D. nameless
11. He takes solace from the damage to his rival. “solace” here means ___.
A. comfort
B. sadness
C. happiness
D. bitterness
12. Out of that, there’s little flexibility in $150 million, but the remaining $100 million is more ______ , says Siboni. “Building Web-centric information systems might become less critical.”
A. valid
B. vibrating
C. varying
D. variable
13. It’s a ______ that in such a rich country there should be so many poor dispute.
A. paradox
B. hypothesis
C. conflict
D. dispute
14. If the stagnant economy actually goes into recession, Hashimoto will face pressures to ease up ___ his fiscal reform.
A. to
B. for
C. with
D. on
15. Economists fear political concerns will have the government intervening __ the stock market.
A. on
B. upon
C. in
D. with
16. Higher productivity also means that the economy may be _____ of sustaining 5% unemployment rates or lower without triggering inflation.
A. capable
B. able
C. interested
D. efficient
17. Computers in ____ sectors have seen their shares tumble some 10%since the start of the year.
A. protecting
B. protected
C. kept
D. keeping
18. Mahathir sacked Anwar in part because he ____ changes to that cozy relationship.
A. called on
B. called for
C. called away
D. called back
19. Most of Asia’s governments cannot ____ credit to needy local borrowers.
A. lengthen
B. explode
C. extend
D. expand
20. Still, most Americans and Europeans are surprisingly ____ about Asia’s turmoil.
A. sanguine
B. sanguinary
C. sanguinolent
D. stagnant
21. For your future ____, we operate an insurance scheme, covering the equipment against breakdowns for a small additional cost.
A. awareness
B. concern
C. notice
D. reference
22. Some governments try their best to avoid ____ their national debt.
A. expanding
B. extending
C. lengthening
D. exploding
23. Structural bottlenecks bureaucratic resistance and labor ___ slow or even thwart reform.
A. issues
B. events
C. things
D. incidents
24. Optimists figure that ongoing surge in U.S. production, employment, and exports to other regions will largely ______trade with Indonesia or Thailand.
A. upset
B. offset
C. outset
D. preset
25. Computers are not the only capital _____ that have a payoff.
A. goods
B. good
C. merchandise
D. commodities
一、单选题（共 25 道试题，共 100 分。） V 1. Tax cuts and creation of a social safety net should ____ a breakup of large industrial and financial groups.
A. be combined by
B. be confined to
C. be coupled with
D. be cabled by
2. If you can ___ your friend I’d like to speak to you alone.
A. shake out
B. shake down
C. shake off
D. shake up
3. Anwar was arrested, Mahathir explained, because he was a menace ___ public morals.
A. for
B. with
C. of
D. to
4. The answer lies largely _____ the now-pervasive use of information technology throughout the economy.
A. in
B. on
C. of
D. with
5. ___ would be the bad banking practices, the cronyism, and the political favoritism.
A. Going
B. Go
C. Gone
D. Goes
6. The company saw _____ rise 21% in the first quarter, despite a 1% decline in revenues.
A. earning
B. payroll
C. payrolls
D. earnings
7. As the ranks of losers grow, opinion surveys now show ordinary Japanese are deeply anxious, worried about their jobs, and ____ for change.
A. yearning
B. yawning
C. yarning
D. yoking
8. As important, Asia must find ways to ___ the balance between saving and consumption.
A. reconstruct
B. construct
C. restructure
D. rebuild
9. It’s a good means of ____ the students’ knowledge.
A. growing
B. exploding
C. extending
D. accepting
10. It ___ the main problem is financial mismanagement.
A. suggests
B. implies
C. means
D. signifies
11. Federal budget talks were _____ a standstill until May 3.
A. on
B. in
C. at
D. with
12. As the Nikkei’s latest nightmare suggests, making the transition to an economy in which government ____ less and the market counts for more will not be fun.
A. encroaches
B. invades
C. intrudes
D. infringes
13. Tens of thousands of people poured into the streets of Kuala Lumpur to express their support ____ Anwar and his message.
A. of
B. with
C. to
D. for
14. Certainly, if Mahathir’s policies to bolster Malaysia Inc. fail to improve the economy, he will be increasingly _____ to attack.
A. sensitive
B. vulnerable
C. opposed
D. exposed
15. Mahathir sacked Anwar in part because he ____ changes to that cozy relationship.
A. called on
B. called for
C. called away
D. called back
16. The 40% ______of the yen against the dollar is helping the comeback. But the multinationals are gaining even more advantages from their production bases that have sprung up around the world.
A. depreciation
B. appreciation
C. discrimination
D. depression
17. Sensing this, Hashimoto is pushing liberalization on several ____.
A. fronts
B. front
C. frontage
D. frontages
18. He had made noises advocating environment reform that ____ opposition from Mahathir.
A. ran into
B. ran across
C. ran about
D. ran after
19. In paticular, world leaders must stop trying to export its way out of trouble ___of the rest of Asia.
A. at the expense of
B. at the head of
C. at the instance of
D. at the hand of
20. President of Fiat in 1992 unexpectedly slashed taxes ____ what were dubbed “popular cars”.
A. at
B. with
C. of
D. on
21. For a long time, ___economies like Japan and Korea were few and relatively small compared with importing economies like the U.S.
A. export-led
B. import-led
C. information-intensive
D. technology-intensive
22. In a desperate effort to keep things afloat, Asian companies dramatically ___ their short-term bank borrowings.
A. increased
B. decreased
C. rose
D. reduced
23. As nameplate companies like Toyota and Toshiba accelerate the shift of their business to Asia and America, many of their suppliers are being ______out in the cold.
A. checked
B. quickened
C. left
D. eliminated
24. He takes solace from the damage to his rival. “solace” here means ___.
A. comfort
B. sadness
C. happiness
D. bitterness
25. It’s a ______ that in such a rich country there should be so many poor dispute.
A. paradox
B. hypothesis
C. conflict
D. dispute
一、单选题（共 25 道试题，共 100 分。） V 1. Instead, local magnates are objecting ___ the terms of privatization.
A. at
B. for
C. with
D. to
2. Most of Asia’s governments cannot ____ credit to needy local borrowers.
A. lengthen
B. explode
C. extend
D. expand
3. Companies are using computers to boost workers’ ______.
A. production
B. produce
C. product
D. productivity
4. The ____ crisis highlights the strategic missteps of Seoul’s policymakers.
A. profound
B. superficial
C. superior
D. sharp
5. The answer lies largely _____ the now-pervasive use of information technology throughout the economy.
A. in
B. on
C. of
D. with
6. For now, the world is breathing a bit easier. By mid-January, the South Korean crisis seemed to stabilize, Suharto was making conciliatory gestures to foreign bankers, and Asian stocks and currencies were starting to ______back.
A. bound
B. boundary
C. bounce
D. booth
7. A deadbeat can hang _____ a piece of property for five years before a bank can claim it.
A. onto
B. up
C. down
D. off
8. Millions of workers in some Asian countries have been ___ as a result of IMF terms.
A. laid aside
B. laid back
C. put away
D. laid off
9. Creating a new chip design or a new software program is a ____ effort that relies almost exclusively on well-paid domestic workers.
A. labor-intensive
B. labor-oriented
C. technology-intensive
D. technology-oriented
10. Put another way, the upshift in productivity means, remarkably, that rising profits, growing wages, and low inflation can ______as they have not in the past 25 years.
A. corrode
B. cooperate
C. coexist
D. coincide
11. That could be enough to ______Greenspan to relax.
A. confirm
B. persuade
C. suggest
D. insist
12. Knowing that he had been permitted to study by Harvard University, he was too excited to ______on the phone.
A. coherent
B. coincidental
C. identical
D. same
13. One of ___great insights was the paradox of savings.
A. Keynes'
B. Samuelson's
C. Friedman's
D. Smith's
14. It would ____ not only short-term fixes but also measures to help shape the Tigers for a global economy.
A. enforce
B. entail
C. enable
D. entitle
15. President of Fiat in 1992 unexpectedly slashed taxes ____ what were dubbed “popular cars”.
A. at
B. with
C. of
D. on
16. That might happen if employers can’t find enough _____ workers to fill the information-intensive jobs that drive the economy now.
A. experiencing
B. fiscal
C. familiar
D. skilled
17. The argument between the two boys became so fierce that Dad had to ______and tell them to behave.
A. inhabit
B. interact
C. intervene
D. inherit
18. High-tech executives are also counting ___ competitive pressure forcing corporations to continue spending on information technology even in a recession.
A. on
B. in
C. off
D. out
19. And with suppliers increasingly spread out in Mexico, the Far East, and Europe, the impact of an increase in auto sales, say, is ______globally.
A. infected
B. distributed
C. issued
D. diffused
20. But he also wants to hike the national sales tax from 3% to 5% and ______an income-tax break enacted in 1995.
A. cancel
B. repeal
C. reject
D. refuse
21. Looking further out, Gartner Group Inc. ______that spending on hardware and software will rise by about 8% annually for the rest of the decade.
A. produces
B. projects
C. propels
D. promotes
22. Over the past three years, the amount of money spent on home computers has risen by 55%, far___ income growth.
A. in a bind of
B. in a manner of
C. in excess of
D. in a position to
23. In the immediate future, exports will more than ever be the ___ of the Asian economies.
A. lifeblood
B. livelihood
C. necessity
D. mainstay
24. Mr. Snow ______ $20 for the horse, so I $21 for the horse.
A. paid
B. bid
C. expended
D. paid off
25. Hanwa Bank was sinking under the ____ of $100 million in bad property loans last fall.
A. weight
B. weigh
C. heaviness
D. heavy
一、单选题（共 25 道试题，共 100 分。） V 1. As the Nikkei’s latest nightmare suggests, making the transition to an economy in which government ____ less and the market counts for more will not be fun.
A. encroaches
B. invades
C. intrudes
D. infringes
2. Structural bottlenecks bureaucratic resistance and labor ___ slow or even thwart reform.
A. issues
B. events
C. things
D. incidents
3. Congressional critics on the right and left have already geared up to ___ the IMF.
A. take aim at
B. take it out of
C. bring in
D. buy out
4. Some economists _____ that the Federal Reserve had already missed its chance to keep prices under control.
A. prepared
B. prevailed
C. preceded
D. predicted
5. If the stagnant economy actually goes into recession, Hashimoto will face pressures to ease up ___ his fiscal reform.
A. to
B. for
C. with
D. on
6. In resolving the problem, the IMF and world leaders must, of course, urgently address the ___ issuses of shaky banking systems, transparency and financial management.
A. emergent
B. immediate
C. imminent
D. urgent
7. Computers are not the only capital _____ that have a payoff.
A. goods
B. good
C. merchandise
D. commodities
8. Hanwa Bank was sinking under the ____ of $100 million in bad property loans last fall.
A. weight
B. weigh
C. heaviness
D. heavy
9. Communications industries have grown ____ far exceeding the rest of the economy over the past years.
A. at a pace
B. off a pace
C. at a pace of
D. off a pace of
10. That could be enough to ______Greenspan to relax.
A. confirm
B. persuade
C. suggest
D. insist
11. Brazilian auto analysts say it’s only a matter of time before it ______ Volkswagen, which holds 29.1% of the market, to become No.1. “Fiat has clearly done a marvelous job of coming from third place to threaten VW,” says Francisco H. Passos Fernandes, a d
A. exceed
B. overtake
C. lag
D. surpass
12. As nameplate companies like Toyota and Toshiba accelerate the shift of their business to Asia and America, many of their suppliers are being ______out in the cold.
A. checked
B. quickened
C. left
D. eliminated
13. Cisco now handles 70% of the support calls it receives without human intervention , ______ the Web.
A. across
B. via
C. in
D. without
14. Like generals fighting the last war, the Fed seems to be focusing ____ traditional cyclical indicators.
A. into
B. on
C. of
D. with
15. He was ______from his country for political reasons.
A. chased
B. exiled
C. accompanied
D. pursued
16. Scanners _____ discolored spots in sliced potatoes as they zoom by on conveyors.
A. detect
B. detain
C. detach
D. destine
17. Companies are using computers to boost workers’ ______.
A. production
B. produce
C. product
D. productivity
18. Nothing represents the difficulties of reform _____ the effort to fix the banks.
A. as well as
B. as soon as
C. as well
D. as far as
19. Looking further out, Gartner Group Inc. ______that spending on hardware and software will rise by about 8% annually for the rest of the decade.
A. produces
B. projects
C. propels
D. promotes
20. Still, most Americans and Europeans are surprisingly ____ about Asia’s turmoil.
A. sanguine
B. sanguinary
C. sanguinolent
D. stagnant
21. Economists fear political concerns will have the government intervening __ the stock market.
A. on
B. upon
C. in
D. with
22. Although meant to be ___, this incantation is dangerously misleading.
A. comforting
B. encouraging
C. inspiring
D. heartening
23. “Set the world on fire” is similar to ___ in meaning.
A. notorious
B. famous
C. familiar
D. ablaze
24. At each step along the way, economic pessimists warned that the economy was about ____ tumble into a yawning chasm.
A. into
B. to
C. on
D. for
25. He quickly discovered that Brazil, rather than being some stagnant backwater, was an auto market ______with growth.
A. exploding
B. exploiting
C. exploring
D. expanding
一、单选题（共 25 道试题，共 100 分。） V 1. The banking has long been the _____ of the region’s crony capitalism.
A. obstacle
B. holdback
C. cornerstone
D. hindrance
2. China’s __ of the Renminbi in 1994 signals the end of the game to some degree.
A. revaluation
B. appreciation
C. depreciation
D. devaluation
3. In a desperate effort to keep things afloat, Asian companies dramatically ___ their short-term bank borrowings.
A. increased
B. decreased
C. rose
D. reduced
4. Chief among them is the ____ need to improve the productivity of domestic industry as a way to improve Japan’s growth prospects.
A. hasty
B. urgent
C. early
D. confident
5. Information technology has doubtless _____ the stability of business operations.
A. enhanced
B. raised
C. increased
D. rose
6. The answer lies largely _____ the now-pervasive use of information technology throughout the economy.
A. in
B. on
C. of
D. with
7. So far, economists have____ one percentage point off their estimates for global growth in 1998.
A. gotten rid of
B. shaved
C. done away with
D. broken away from
8. That might happen if employers can’t find enough _____ workers to fill the information-intensive jobs that drive the economy now.
A. experiencing
B. fiscal
C. familiar
D. skilled
9. Communications industries have grown ____ far exceeding the rest of the economy over the past years.
A. at a pace
B. off a pace
C. at a pace of
D. off a pace of
10. More than a year later, politicians throughout the region are choosing to ___ painful choices.
A. do away with
B. steer clear of
C. deal with
D. get accustomed to
11. If you can ___ your friend I’d like to speak to you alone.
A. shake out
B. shake down
C. shake off
D. shake up
12. It is free market and it controls most of the ___ of savings to investment.
A. curving
B. direction
C. flow
D. stream
13. As they ____ over their options, all roads eventually led to Brazil.
A. pored
B. calculated
C. considered
D. judged
14. Cisco now handles 70% of the support calls it receives without human intervention , ______ the Web.
A. across
B. via
C. in
D. without
15. The argument between the two boys became so fierce that Dad had to ______and tell them to behave.
A. inhabit
B. interact
C. intervene
D. inherit
16. As one Asian economy after another has melted down over the past nine months, politicians and pundits ______ from Japanese Prime Minister Hashimoto to the Washington Post to the World Bank’s chief economist have all emphasized that there is no cause for a
A. ranging
B. differing
C. altering
D. separating
17. Companies are relying on temporary workers and outside consulting firms, which can be easily ___ during tough times.
A. sloughed off
B. put across
C. brought off
D. taken amiss
18. Bureaucrats now _____ their recent efforts to spur the economy.
A. conceal
B. concede
C. confess
D. conceive
19. Like generals fighting the last war, the Fed seems to be focusing ____ traditional cyclical indicators.
A. into
B. on
C. of
D. with
20. Brazil became the key ____ Fiat’s new globalization strategy.
A. of
B. to
C. for
D. with
21. Each has ____ new notebook or desktop offerings lately, and Sony’s not selling video game machine has come from nowhere to become a $3 million global business.
A. launched
B. had
C. attempted
D. carried on
22. Sensing this, Hashimoto is pushing liberalization on several ____.
A. fronts
B. front
C. frontage
D. frontages
23. As the exporting economies grew and proliferated, the rapidly growing ___ of exports began to shake the very foundation of the Asian miracle.
A. number
B. scale
C. size
D. volume
24. For years, she ______the hope that her husband might still be alive.
A. valued
B. cherished
C. treasured
D. grasped
25. South Korea and Malaysia are assuming more control ____ the banking sector.
A. over
B. on
C. of
D. for
一、单选题（共 25 道试题，共 100 分。） V 1. Information technology has doubtless _____ the stability of business operations.
A. enhanced
B. raised
C. increased
D. rose
2. As important, Asia must find ways to ___ the balance between saving and consumption.
A. reconstruct
B. construct
C. restructure
D. rebuild
3. _____ experiencing the booms and busts of old, the economy is on a steady growth.
A. Other than
B. Rather than
C. No more than
D. No other than
4. Conversely, if spending on computers ______ , that’s a sign that companies had little faith in the productivity benefits of information technology.
A. lags
B. exceeds
C. overtakes
D. surpass
5. Creating a new chip design or a new software program is a ____ effort that relies almost exclusively on well-paid domestic workers.
A. labor-intensive
B. labor-oriented
C. technology-intensive
D. technology-oriented
6. In paticular, world leaders must stop trying to export its way out of trouble ___of the rest of Asia.
A. at the expense of
B. at the head of
C. at the instance of
D. at the hand of
7. The couple made their ____ before a parish priest.
A. opening remarks
B. thoughts
C. vows
D. emotions
8. Certainly, if Mahathir’s policies to bolster Malaysia Inc. fail to improve the economy, he will be increasingly _____ to attack.
A. sensitive
B. vulnerable
C. opposed
D. exposed
9. Congressional critics on the right and left have already geared up to ___ the IMF.
A. take aim at
B. take it out of
C. bring in
D. buy out
10. ____ some point, holding this kind of conference is unnecessary.
A. To
B. At
C. With
D. For
11. The ____ crisis highlights the strategic missteps of Seoul’s policymakers.
A. profound
B. superficial
C. superior
D. sharp
12. Fiat’s grand strategists convened in Turin and decided that a new round of globalization was more ____ than before.
A. emergent
B. imperative
C. inductive
D. instructive
13. The Asian countries will remain so mired in the old ways of doing business that reform will ___.
A. found
B. founder
C. find
D. founded
14. If he succeeds, he will return to Turin a hero wrapped ___ glory.
A. with
B. in
C. of
D. by
15. If you can ___ your friend I’d like to speak to you alone.
A. shake out
B. shake down
C. shake off
D. shake up
16. Hearing the sad mews, the glass ______from his hand and fell into pieces.
A. slid
B. slipped
C. glided
D. slided
17. Tax cuts and creation of a social safety net should ____ a breakup of large industrial and financial groups.
A. be combined by
B. be confined to
C. be coupled with
D. be cabled by
18. In a desperate effort to keep things afloat, Asian companies dramatically ___ their short-term bank borrowings.
A. increased
B. decreased
C. rose
D. reduced
19. Brazil became the key ____ Fiat’s new globalization strategy.
A. of
B. to
C. for
D. with
20. Once ______ as digital slackers, Japanese consumer-electronics giants such as Sony, Toshiba, and Hitachi have been every bit as aggressive as the automakers in fighting for global market share.
A. written down
B. written on
C. written off
D. written about
21. Now HK is getting ___ into the whirlpool.
A. sucked
B. involved
C. accustomed
D. used
22. As they ____ over their options, all roads eventually led to Brazil.
A. pored
B. calculated
C. considered
D. judged
23. “Set the world on fire” is similar to ___ in meaning.
A. notorious
B. famous
C. familiar
D. ablaze
24. It ___ the main problem is financial mismanagement.
A. suggests
B. implies
C. means
D. signifies
25. That realization is shaking ____ the stock market.
A. up
B. down
C. off
D. out
一、单选题（共 25 道试题，共 100 分。） V 1. The 40% ______of the yen against the dollar is helping the comeback. But the multinationals are gaining even more advantages from their production bases that have sprung up around the world.
A. depreciation
B. appreciation
C. discrimination
D. depression
2. Asian____ have used their unbridled power pervasively to compel their citizens to become big savers.
A. bureaucrats
B. bureaucracy
C. bureau
D. bureaus
3. The change of the plan would ______treat inconvenience on them.
A. entail
B. detail
C. cocktail
D. retail
4. So far, economists have____ one percentage point off their estimates for global growth in 1998.
A. gotten rid of
B. shaved
C. done away with
D. broken away from
5. The answer lies largely _____ the now-pervasive use of information technology throughout the economy.
A. in
B. on
C. of
D. with
6. Just as no one anticipated how swiftly a local panic in Thailand would ______ an entire region, no one really understands how the collapse of the world’s biggest growth zone will ripple through the West.
A. bring in
B. bring down
C. bring off
D. bring back
7. In one ______the auto-making market in Brazil was changed forever.
A. stroke
B. stick
C. stone
D. stock
8. As the Nikkei’s latest nightmare suggests, making the transition to an economy in which government ____ less and the market counts for more will not be fun.
A. encroaches
B. invades
C. intrudes
D. infringes
9. Most of Asia’s governments cannot ____ credit to needy local borrowers.
A. lengthen
B. explode
C. extend
D. expand
10. ___ would be the bad banking practices, the cronyism, and the political favoritism.
A. Going
B. Go
C. Gone
D. Goes
11. That leaves the conglomerate ___ the upper hand.
A. behind
B. in
C. with
D. to
12. Out of that, there’s little flexibility in $150 million, but the remaining $100 million is more ______ , says Siboni. “Building Web-centric information systems might become less critical.”
A. valid
B. vibrating
C. varying
D. variable
13. For now, the world is breathing a bit easier. By mid-January, the South Korean crisis seemed to stabilize, Suharto was making conciliatory gestures to foreign bankers, and Asian stocks and currencies were starting to ______back.
A. bound
B. boundary
C. bounce
D. booth
14. If he succeeds, he will return to Turin a hero wrapped ___ glory.
A. with
B. in
C. of
D. by
15. Many of Asia’s banks cannot meet their short-term commitments to overseas lenders or extend credit to ______local borrowers.
A. need
B. needing
C. needed
D. needy
16. “Set the world on fire” is similar to ___ in meaning.
A. notorious
B. famous
C. familiar
D. ablaze
17. Brazil has ___ into one of the world’s most important growth markets.
A. progressed
B. blossomed
C. extended
D. became
18. Some governments try their best to avoid ____ their national debt.
A. expanding
B. extending
C. lengthening
D. exploding
19. The children walked to the ___ of the cliff and looked down at the sea below.
A. border
B. edge
C. limit
D. rim
20. Congressional critics on the right and left have already geared up to ___ the IMF.
A. take aim at
B. take it out of
C. bring in
D. buy out
21. Cisco now handles 70% of the support calls it receives without human intervention , ______ the Web.
A. across
B. via
C. in
D. without
22. That _____ productivity paradox now seems to be over.
A. so calling
B. so-calling
C. so-called
D. so called
23. Certainly, if Mahathir’s policies to bolster Malaysia Inc. fail to improve the economy, he will be increasingly _____ to attack.
A. sensitive
B. vulnerable
C. opposed
D. exposed
24. ____ some point, holding this kind of conference is unnecessary.
A. To
B. At
C. With
D. For
25. Fiat’s campaign to win this war has been ____, which makes other companies to follow its example.
A. instructive
B. inviting
C. industrious
D. inductive
一、单选题（共 25 道试题，共 100 分。） V 1. Some governments try their best to avoid ____ their national debt.
A. expanding
B. extending
C. lengthening
D. exploding
2. Each has ____ new notebook or desktop offerings lately, and Sony’s not selling video game machine has come from nowhere to become a $3 million global business.
A. launched
B. had
C. attempted
D. carried on
3. It ___ the main problem is financial mismanagement.
A. suggests
B. implies
C. means
D. signifies
4. It is free market and it controls most of the ___ of savings to investment.
A. curving
B. direction
C. flow
D. stream
5. Engineer is an ____ post in Fiat.
A. industrious
B. illustrious
C. noteless
D. nameless
6. Thailand announced a bank reconstructuring plan last month, but none of the banks ____has agreed to it.
A. by far
B. so far
C. so far as
D. far from
7. And with suppliers increasingly spread out in Mexico, the Far East, and Europe, the impact of an increase in auto sales, say, is ______globally.
A. infected
B. distributed
C. issued
D. diffused
8. Corporate Japan is turning ______ itself, with the strong dumping the weak.
A. on
B. off
C. down
D. up
9. He would move from the company’s headquarters in Turin to take ____ operations in faraway Brazil.
A. up
B. over
C. in
D. out
10. ___ competition from Japan and China, export growth in the rest of Asia fell from a peak of 30% in early 1995 to zero by mid-1996.
A. In advance of
B. In aid of
C. In the face of
D. In back of
11. Growth has ____ to an average rate of 4% from about 2% in 1995.
A. accelerated
B. promoted
C. quickened
D. advanced
12. Anwar was arrested, Mahathir explained, because he was a menace ___ public morals.
A. for
B. with
C. of
D. to
13. Once ______ as digital slackers, Japanese consumer-electronics giants such as Sony, Toshiba, and Hitachi have been every bit as aggressive as the automakers in fighting for global market share.
A. written down
B. written on
C. written off
D. written about
14. By imposing austerity ___troubled Asian nations, the IMF may actually be exacerbating the situation.
A. on
B. in
C. with
D. at
15. Tens of thousands of people poured into the streets of Kuala Lumpur to express their support ____ Anwar and his message.
A. of
B. with
C. to
D. for
16. Global leaders should appoint an ____ task force that would have real clout to deal with the problem on a regional basis.
A. emergency
B. immediacy
C. imminence
D. immenseness
17. ___ of Anwar, the opposition may end up retreating in confusion.
A. Deprived
B. To deprive
C. depriving
D. Deprive
18. He quickly discovered that Brazil, rather than being some stagnant backwater, was an auto market ______with growth.
A. exploding
B. exploiting
C. exploring
D. expanding
19. As important, Asia must find ways to ___ the balance between saving and consumption.
A. reconstruct
B. construct
C. restructure
D. rebuild
20. Company coffers are brimming ____ profits.
A. with
B. over
C. of
D. for
21. So far, economists have____ one percentage point off their estimates for global growth in 1998.
A. gotten rid of
B. shaved
C. done away with
D. broken away from
22. Computers in ____ sectors have seen their shares tumble some 10%since the start of the year.
A. protecting
B. protected
C. kept
D. keeping
23. A survey shows bureaucrat is the biggest barrier ____ doing business in Korea.
A. of
B. for
C. with
D. to
24. Information technology has doubtless _____ the stability of business operations.
A. enhanced
B. raised
C. increased
D. rose
25. In this kind of environment, I see nothing but ____ bad assets.
A. mounted
B. mounting
C. mountable
D. mount
一、单选题（共 25 道试题，共 100 分。） V 1. The argument between the two boys became so fierce that Dad had to ______and tell them to behave.
A. inhabit
B. interact
C. intervene
D. inherit
2. Looking further out, Gartner Group Inc. ______that spending on hardware and software will rise by about 8% annually for the rest of the decade.
A. produces
B. projects
C. propels
D. promotes
3. It’s a good means of ____ the students’ knowledge.
A. growing
B. exploding
C. extending
D. accepting
4. He had made noises advocating environment reform that ____ opposition from Mahathir.
A. ran into
B. ran across
C. ran about
D. ran after
5. The company saw _____ rise 21% in the first quarter, despite a 1% decline in revenues.
A. earning
B. payroll
C. payrolls
D. earnings
6. At each step along the way, economic pessimists warned that the economy was about ____ tumble into a yawning chasm.
A. into
B. to
C. on
D. for
7. Fiat’s campaign to win this war has been ____, which makes other companies to follow its example.
A. instructive
B. inviting
C. industrious
D. inductive
8. The couple made their ____ before a parish priest.
A. opening remarks
B. thoughts
C. vows
D. emotions
9. Thailand announced a bank reconstructuring plan last month, but none of the banks ____has agreed to it.
A. by far
B. so far
C. so far as
D. far from
10. As important, Asia must find ways to ___ the balance between saving and consumption.
A. reconstruct
B. construct
C. restructure
D. rebuild
11. Millions of workers in some Asian countries have been ___ as a result of IMF terms.
A. laid aside
B. laid back
C. put away
D. laid off
12. The children walked to the ___ of the cliff and looked down at the sea below.
A. border
B. edge
C. limit
D. rim
13. As they ____ over their options, all roads eventually led to Brazil.
A. pored
B. calculated
C. considered
D. judged
14. She _____ her eyes from the ugly sight.
A. averted
B. avoided
C. holded
D. closed
15. In paticular, world leaders must stop trying to export its way out of trouble ___of the rest of Asia.
A. at the expense of
B. at the head of
C. at the instance of
D. at the hand of
16. Sometimes a bureaucrat’s ___ ruling can mean denial or loss of one’s welfare benefits.
A. absolute
B. arbitrary
C. impersonal
D. objective
17. ___ would be the bad banking practices, the cronyism, and the political favoritism.
A. Going
B. Go
C. Gone
D. Goes
18. Brazil became the key ____ Fiat’s new globalization strategy.
A. of
B. to
C. for
D. with
19. _____ experiencing the booms and busts of old, the economy is on a steady growth.
A. Other than
B. Rather than
C. No more than
D. No other than
20. And with suppliers increasingly spread out in Mexico, the Far East, and Europe, the impact of an increase in auto sales, say, is ______globally.
A. infected
B. distributed
C. issued
D. diffused
21. For your future ____, we operate an insurance scheme, covering the equipment against breakdowns for a small additional cost.
A. awareness
B. concern
C. notice
D. reference
22. Now the same players are dragging their feet ____ reform and defying political pressure to clean up their acts.
A. on
B. to
C. for
D. with
23. Sensing this, Hashimoto is pushing liberalization on several ____.
A. fronts
B. front
C. frontage
D. frontages
24. More than a year later, politicians throughout the region are choosing to ___ painful choices.
A. do away with
B. steer clear of
C. deal with
D. get accustomed to
25. He quickly discovered that Brazil, rather than being some stagnant backwater, was an auto market ______with growth.
A. exploding
B. exploiting
C. exploring
D. expanding
一、单选题（共 25 道试题，共 100 分。） V 1. ___ of Anwar, the opposition may end up retreating in confusion.
A. Deprived
B. To deprive
C. depriving
D. Deprive
2. He would move from the company’s headquarters in Turin to take ____ operations in faraway Brazil.
A. up
B. over
C. in
D. out
3. In resolving the problem, the IMF and world leaders must, of course, urgently address the ___ issuses of shaky banking systems, transparency and financial management.
A. emergent
B. immediate
C. imminent
D. urgent
4. Some governments try their best to avoid ____ their national debt.
A. expanding
B. extending
C. lengthening
D. exploding
5. As one Asian economy after another has melted down over the past nine months, politicians and pundits ______ from Japanese Prime Minister Hashimoto to the Washington Post to the World Bank’s chief economist have all emphasized that there is no cause for a
A. ranging
B. differing
C. altering
D. separating
6. That realization is shaking ____ the stock market.
A. up
B. down
C. off
D. out
7. Economists fear political concerns will have the government intervening __ the stock market.
A. on
B. upon
C. in
D. with
8. Cisco now handles 70% of the support calls it receives without human intervention , ______ the Web.
A. across
B. via
C. in
D. without
9. Conversely, if spending on computers ______ , that’s a sign that companies had little faith in the productivity benefits of information technology.
A. lags
B. exceeds
C. overtakes
D. surpass
10. Brazil has ___ into one of the world’s most important growth markets.
A. progressed
B. blossomed
C. extended
D. became
11. Hanwa Bank was sinking under the ____ of $100 million in bad property loans last fall.
A. weight
B. weigh
C. heaviness
D. heavy
12. Since ____ of the market is controlled by large companies investing in each other, the message is doubly clear.
A. two-thirds
B. two-third
C. second-three
D. second-threes
13. It would ____ not only short-term fixes but also measures to help shape the Tigers for a global economy.
A. enforce
B. entail
C. enable
D. entitle
14. Corporate Japan is turning ______ itself, with the strong dumping the weak.
A. on
B. off
C. down
D. up
15. Many dispirited traders ____ out of the Tokyo Stock Exchange because of fall of the Nikkei stock average.
A. streamed
B. crowed
C. scattered
D. strode
16. Global leaders should appoint an ____ task force that would have real clout to deal with the problem on a regional basis.
A. emergency
B. immediacy
C. imminence
D. immenseness
17. In this kind of environment, I see nothing but ____ bad assets.
A. mounted
B. mounting
C. mountable
D. mount
18. As important, Asia must find ways to ___ the balance between saving and consumption.
A. reconstruct
B. construct
C. restructure
D. rebuild
19. Chief among them is the ____ need to improve the productivity of domestic industry as a way to improve Japan’s growth prospects.
A. hasty
B. urgent
C. early
D. confident
20. Just as no one anticipated how swiftly a local panic in Thailand would ______ an entire region, no one really understands how the collapse of the world’s biggest growth zone will ripple through the West.
A. bring in
B. bring down
C. bring off
D. bring back
21. For example, consumer spending and office construction far ______the rest of the economy during the 1980s.
A. outpaced
B. outcome
C. outbreak
D. outraged
22. For your future ____, we operate an insurance scheme, covering the equipment against breakdowns for a small additional cost.
A. awareness
B. concern
C. notice
D. reference
23. Now the same players are dragging their feet ____ reform and defying political pressure to clean up their acts.
A. on
B. to
C. for
D. with
24. Like generals fighting the last war, the Fed seems to be focusing ____ traditional cyclical indicators.
A. into
B. on
C. of
D. with
25. Once ______ as digital slackers, Japanese consumer-electronics giants such as Sony, Toshiba, and Hitachi have been every bit as aggressive as the automakers in fighting for global market share.
A. written down
B. written on
C. written off
D. written about
一、单选题（共 25 道试题，共 100 分。） V 1. The argument between the two boys became so fierce that Dad had to ______and tell them to behave.
A. inhabit
B. interact
C. intervene
D. inherit
2. For now, the world is breathing a bit easier. By mid-January, the South Korean crisis seemed to stabilize, Suharto was making conciliatory gestures to foreign bankers, and Asian stocks and currencies were starting to ______back.
A. bound
B. boundary
C. bounce
D. booth
3. Conversely, if spending on computers ______ , that’s a sign that companies had little faith in the productivity benefits of information technology.
A. lags
B. exceeds
C. overtakes
D. surpass
4. In resolving the problem, the IMF and world leaders must, of course, urgently address the ___ issuses of shaky banking systems, transparency and financial management.
A. emergent
B. immediate
C. imminent
D. urgent
5. Brazilian auto analysts say it’s only a matter of time before it ______ Volkswagen, which holds 29.1% of the market, to become No.1. “Fiat has clearly done a marvelous job of coming from third place to threaten VW,” says Francisco H. Passos Fernandes, a d
A. exceed
B. overtake
C. lag
D. surpass
6. Although meant to be ___, this incantation is dangerously misleading.
A. comforting
B. encouraging
C. inspiring
D. heartening
7. Chief among them is the ____ need to improve the productivity of domestic industry as a way to improve Japan’s growth prospects.
A. hasty
B. urgent
C. early
D. confident
8. Economists fear political concerns will have the government intervening __ the stock market.
A. on
B. upon
C. in
D. with
9. She _____ her eyes from th |
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