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一、单选题（共 25 道试题，共 100 分。）V 1.  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
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2.  It ___ the main problem is financial mismanagement.
A. suggests
B. implies
C. means
D. signifies
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3.  Information technology has doubtless _____ the stability of business operations.
A. enhanced
B. raised
C. increased
D. rose
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4.  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
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5.  Engineer is an ____ post in Fiat.
A. industrious
B. illustrious
C. noteless
D. nameless
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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
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7.  The biggest high-tech downturn in the past two decades came in 1985, when demand_____ just before the introduction of Intel’s 80386 microprocessor.
A. died out
B. petered out
C. came into being
D. disappear
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8.  Like generals fighting the last war, the Fed seems to be focusing ____ traditional cyclical indicators.
A. into
B. on
C. of
D. with
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9.  Thanks ___ $ 515 billion worth of investment, the multinationals have moved closer to their customers.
A. for
B. of
C. by
D. to
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10.  Although meant to be ___, this incantation is dangerously misleading.
A. comforting
B. encouraging
C. inspiring
D. heartening
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11.  Still, most Americans and Europeans are surprisingly ____ about Asia’s turmoil.
A. sanguine
B. sanguinary
C. sanguinolent
D. stagnant
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12.  That realization is shaking ____ the stock market.
A. up
B. down
C. off
D. out
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13.  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
      满分：4  分
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
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15.  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
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16.  She _____ her eyes from the ugly sight.
A. averted
B. avoided
C. holded
D. closed
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17.  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
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18.  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
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19.  Structural bottlenecks bureaucratic resistance and labor ___ slow or even thwart reform.
A. issues
B. events
C. things
D. incidents
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20.  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
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21.  By imposing austerity ___troubled Asian nations, the IMF may actually be exacerbating the situation.
A. on
B. in
C. with
D. at
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22.  The answer lies largely _____ the now-pervasive use of information technology throughout the economy.
A. in
B. on
C. of
D. with
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23.  Some governments try their best to avoid ____ their national debt.
A. expanding
B. extending
C. lengthening
D. exploding
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24.  Back then, when unemployment fell below 6.5%, inflation ______ .
A. got up
B. shut down
C. took off
D. put on
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25.  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
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