12春东财《外刊经贸文章选读》在线作业三（随机）

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一、单选题（共 25 道试题，共 100 分。）V 1.  The panic of 1873 was caused largely by railroad over-expansion, leading to a slew of railroad bankruptcies and a(n) ______decline in new investment.
A. accidental
B. urgent
C. abrupt
D. swift
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2.  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
      满分：4  分
3.  That realization is shaking ____ the stock market.
A. up
B. down
C. off
D. out
      满分：4  分
4.  ___ would be the bad banking practices, the cronyism, and the political favoritism.
A. Going
B. Go
C. Gone
D. Goes
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5.  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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6.  At each step along the way, economic pessimists warned that the economy was about to tumble into a yawning ______ .
A. spot
B. scar
C. gap
D. chasm
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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
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8.  The solutions would include _____ much of the debt into private securities and government bonds.
A. adapting
B. altering
C. converting
D. varying
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9.  “Set the world on fire” is similar to ___ in meaning.
A. notorious
B. famous
C. familiar
D. ablaze
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10.  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
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11.  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
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12.  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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13.  With the recent decision to split Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp. into two local companies and one long-distance carrier owned by a holding company, the Diet is now expected to lift a ______on such combines dating to the U.S. occupation.
A. block
B. ban
C. stop
D. forbid
      满分：4  分
14.  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
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15.  Consumers have even more reasons to ___during recessions.
A. put back
B. cut back
C. go back
D. bite back
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16.  The lost boy was ______with fear and shook all over.
A. thrilled
B. frantic
C. enthusiastic
D. fascinated
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17.  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
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18.  As they ____ over their options, all roads eventually led to Brazil.
A. pored
B. calculated
C. considered
D. judged
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19.  Hanwa Bank was sinking under the ____ of $100 million in bad property loans last fall.
A. weight
B. weigh
C. heaviness
D. heavy
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20.  When times were good, Asia’s bankers routinely ____ easy money to favored companies with little regard for the creditworthiness of projects.
A. funneled
B. put
C. converged
D. crowded
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21.  Fiat’s Brazilian operations now ____ for 18% of the conglomerate’s total auto sales.
A. take up
B. occupy
C. account
D. make up
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22.  He had made noises advocating environment reform that ____ opposition from Mahathir.
A. ran into
B. ran across
C. ran about
D. ran after
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23.  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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24.  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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25.  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
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