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一、单选题（共 25 道试题，共 100 分。）V 1.  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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2.  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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3.  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
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4.  Brazil became the key ____ Fiat’s new globalization strategy.
A. of
B. to
C. for
D. with
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5.  Small businesses have to depend ____ the health of large companies for their livelihood..
A. on
B. for
C. with
D. in
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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.  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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8.  Economists fear political concerns will have the government intervening __ the stock market.
A. on
B. upon
C. in
D. with
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9.  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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10.  With precious few investment opportunities, manufacturers are ___ on another round of global diversification.
A. embarking
B. beginning
C. commencing
D. launching
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11.  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
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12.  After years of laboring ____ the company’s design, he won the post of engineer in this company.
A. at
B. for
C. in
D. with
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13.  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
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14.  That leaves the conglomerate ___ the upper hand.
A. behind
B. in
C. with
D. to
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15.  There are already troubling signs of weakness in those industries that could _____ a wider slump.
A. foreshadow
B. foresee
C. foreshorten
D. forespeak
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16.  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
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17.  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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18.  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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19.  ___ would be the bad banking practices, the cronyism, and the political favoritism.
A. Going
B. Go
C. Gone
D. Goes
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20.  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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21.  Small businesses will not be reluctant to ______spending if the economy turns down.
A. hold up
B. hold off
C. hold with
D. hold on
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22.  Now HK is getting ___ into the whirlpool.
A. sucked
B. involved
C. accustomed
D. used
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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
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24.  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
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25.  Government figures show consumer spending on computers rising at its slowest rate since 1992, while unfilled orders for information-technology equipment are ______for the first time since 1994.
A. compressing
B. shrinking
C. boosting
D. increasing
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