东财11秋《外刊经贸文章选读X》在线作业一（随机）

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一、单选题（共 25 道试题，共 100 分。）V 1.  Computers in ____ sectors have seen their shares tumble some 10%since the start of the year.
A. protecting
B. protected
C. kept
D. keeping
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2.  Corporate Japan is turning ______ itself, with the strong dumping the weak.
A. on
B. off
C. down
D. up
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3.  That realization is shaking ____ the stock market.
A. up
B. down
C. off
D. out
      满分：4  分
4.  Anwar was arrested, Mahathir explained, because he was a menace ___ public morals.
A. for
B. with
C. of
D. to
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5.  South Korea and Malaysia are assuming more control ____ the banking sector.
A. over
B. on
C. of
D. for
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6.  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
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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
      满分：4  分
8.  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
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9.  Computers are not the only capital _____ that have a payoff.
A. goods
B. good
C. merchandise
D. commodities
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10.  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
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11.  In the immediate future, exports will more than ever be the ___ of the Asian economies.
A. lifeblood
B. livelihood
C. necessity
D. mainstay
      满分：4  分
12.  Some economists _____ that the Federal Reserve had already missed its chance to keep prices under control.
A. prepared
B. prevailed
C. preceded
D. predicted
      满分：4  分
13.  It is free market and it controls most of the ___ of savings to investment.
A. curving
B. direction
C. flow
D. stream
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14.  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
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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
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16.  Sometimes a bureaucrat’s ___ ruling can mean denial or loss of one’s welfare benefits.
A. absolute
B. arbitrary
C. impersonal
D. objective
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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
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18.  Growth has ____ to an average rate of 4% from about 2% in 1995.
A. accelerated
B. promoted
C. quickened
D. advanced
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19.  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
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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
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21.  In a desperate effort to keep things afloat, Asian companies dramatically ___ their short-term bank borrowings.
A. increased
B. decreased
C. rose
D. reduced
      满分：4  分
22.  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
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23.  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
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24.  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
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25.  Scanners _____ discolored spots in sliced potatoes as they zoom by on conveyors.
A. detect
B. detain
C. detach
D. destine
      满分：4  分