全国2010年4月高等教育自学考试外刊经贸知识选读试题

The authorities are willing to permit a run-down in the country’s international reserves over the next few years.

Figures show that the bulk of our foreign obligations consist of non-bank trade-related credits.

Foreign investors want to enjoy the same tax status as the domestic ones.

More than a decade of fast growth makes China to supplant Japan as West’s main trade worry in Asia.

Many governments have promised to take measures to help the unemployed.

Discrimination against goods from foreign countries is prohibited by WTO.

America’s embrace of the free-trade agreements balanced all the criticism from the developing countries.

Because of the mutual benefits no one would take a breach of those law lightly.

Economists reckon Japanese bilateral trade surplus with America is also growing rapidly.

Korea’s ambitious plans include a wholesale revamping of the country’s basic industries.

Even the well established consultants are finding it hard to secure definitive lucrative projects.

Japanese managers act more like western managers, putting profits before their firm’s market share .

In the U.S. soft drink industry is dominated by Coca-Cola and PepsiCo.

Investment funds have moved out of commodities and into liquid assets.

最惠国待遇

企业家精神

人均收入

贸易制裁

资本市场

（企业等的）总部

有价证券

批发商

市场力量

新兴工业

coupon

fiscal packages

visible trade

Gross Domestic Product

trade balance

countervailing duty

consumer goods

export quota system

convertible currency

futures

What’s the meaning of “draw the line” here?

What’s the meaning of “exporting its way out of recession”?

How do you understand the underlined sentence?

What’s your understanding of “price promotions” here?

What’s the “symbiotic” aspect of the relationship between the bottlers and the syrup makers?

What’s the “occasionally fractious” aspect?

Advertising and coupons are examples of marketing campaigns.

The detergent was popular in Japan.

Japanese consumers usually like large boxes because they are lower in prices.

A US buyer has the same buying behavior as a Mexico consumer.

Perhaps buying preferences are quite different among national borders.

“bargain-basement prices” means high prices.

Economy of the Western industrial countries highly depended on their export.

East Asia countries kept on importing more under the international financial crisis.

The US economy was not influenced by the financial crisis.

The trade war against Japan had successfully decreased the US’s trade deficit.

To many developing countries, the trend is deeply worrying as well as bewildering —— the terms of trading have worsened dramatically for them. For the industrialized world, by contrast, the drop in commodity prices has been a real boon in the fight against inflation. The explanation for the general weakness in commodity prices is complex, and the factors in play will obviously vary greatly from one commodity to another. For example, while falling oil prices ought to provide a fillip to western economic growth —— and therefore, indirectly, to demand for other commodities —— they are bound to have other, perhaps less desirable, spin-offs.