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一、单选题（共 25 道试题，共 100 分。）V 1.  ___ 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
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2.  President of Fiat in 1992 unexpectedly slashed taxes ____ what were dubbed “popular cars”.
A. at
B. with
C. of
D. on
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3.  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
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4.  Computers are not the only capital _____ that have a payoff.
A. goods
B. good
C. merchandise
D. commodities
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5.  Previous attempts by President Kim to use tax cuts and other incentives to force the sprawling chaebol to concentrate on core products have been to little ______ .
A. avail
B. availability
C. available
D. availed
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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
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7.  That could be enough to ______Greenspan to relax.
A. confirm
B. persuade
C. suggest
D. insist
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8.  Company coffers are brimming ____ profits.
A. with
B. over
C. of
D. for
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9.  Traders mouthed the same grim sentiments when the market lost its ____ back in 1992.
A. footing
B. foot
C. feet
D. footer
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10.  The children walked to the ___ of the cliff and looked down at the sea below.
A. border
B. edge
C. limit
D. rim
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11.  In early January, Indonesian, President Suharto outlined ___ appending plans that defied moves demanded by the IMF.
A. ambitious
B. anxious
C. coward
D. amerceable
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12.  The young man was ___ for giving his life to rescuing a five-year-old child.
A. cited
B. mentioned
C. listed
D. quoted
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13.  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
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14.  Corporate Japan is turning ______ itself, with the strong dumping the weak.
A. on
B. off
C. down
D. up
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15.  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
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16.  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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17.  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
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18.  The truth is that the U.S. has no choice but to step ____ to the challenge.
A. up
B. in
C. on
D. asid
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19.  Companies are using computers to boost workers’ ______.
A. production
B. produce
C. product
D. productivity
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20.  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
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21.  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
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22.  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
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23.  Instead, there is a new business cycle, tied to the health of the high-tech sector. Riding a wave of technological optimism, the computer, software, and communications industries have grown at a pace far exceeding the rest of the economy over the past three years, helping to _____the expansion.
A. extent
B. expand
C. extend
D. spread
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24.  The change of the plan would ______treat inconvenience on them.
A. entail
B. detail
C. cocktail
D. retail
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25.  There at a press conference on Sept. 22 was Malaysia Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, explaining why he had ordered hooded policemen to ___ the home of Anwar Ibrahim.
A. burst into
B. fly onto
C. get into
D. go into
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