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全国职称英语等级测验试题财经类二
全国职称英语等级测验试题(财经类)二
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全国职称英语等级考试试题(财经类)二
第三部分 阅读理解 (80分)
Passage 1
One phase of the business cycle is the expansion phase. This phase is a two-fold one, including recovery and prosperity. During the recovery period there is ever - growing expansion of existing facilities and new facilities for production are created. More businesses are created and older ones expanded. Improvements of various kinds are made. There is an ever increasing optimism (乐观主义) about the future of economic growth. Much capital is invested in machinery or "heavy" industry. More labor is employed. More raw materials are required. As one part of the economy develops, other parts are affected. For example, a great expansion in automobiles results in an expansion of the steel, glass, and industries. Roads are required. Thus the cement and machinery industries are stimulated. Demand for labor and materials results in greater prosperity for workers and suppliers (供应商) of raw materials, including farmers. This increases purchasing power and the volume of goods bought and sold. Thus prosperity is diffused (扩散) among the various portions of the population. This prosperity period may continue to rise and rise without an apparent end. However a time comes when this phase reaches a peak and stop spiraling (盘旋地移动) upwards. This is the end of the expansion phase.
21. We may assume that in the next paragraph the writer will discuss _______.
○A. union demands
○B. the status of the farmer
○C. the higher cost of living
○D. the recession period
22. The title below that best expresses the idea of this passage is ________.
○A. The Business Cycle
○B. The Recovery Stage
○C. Attaining Prosperity
○D. The Period of Good Times
23. Prosperity in one industry _________.
○A. reflects itself in many other industries
○B. will spiral upwards
○C. will affect the steel industry
○D. will end abruptly
24. Which of the following industries will probably be a good indicator of a period of expansion?
○A. Toys.
○B. Machine tools.
○C. Foodstuffs.
○D. Farming.
25. During the period of prosperity, people regard the future ___________.
○A. cautiously
○B. in a confident manner
○C. opportunely
○D. indifferently
Passage 2
The value of money is going down. What you could buy in 1970 for £20, now, in 1979 costs £56.40. That’s inflation and nobody likes it, least of all the Bank of England. One of the results of inflation is that people need coins and notes of higher value. At the moment, the note of the highest value which is generally in circulation(流通) is the £20 note. Now, the Bank of England plans to introduce a new, £50 note. And the Bank is trying to decide which famous English man or woman to put on the back of the new note.
Quite a problem. The Bank usually chooses safe, historical personalities. We already have Sir Isaac Newton, the scientist, the first duck of Wellington, the famous soldier who led the British army at Waterloo, Florence Nightingale, founder of English nursing and - of course - Shakespeare. So far, the list of possible choices for the £50 note is quite predictable (可预测的). There’s Sir Francis Drake, to represent the achievements of English explorers in the sixteenth century. Then we have Lord Nelson, another sailor and the man who won the battle of Trafalgar in 1805 for England. Isambard Kingdom Brunel, the engineer, is also on the list because of the magnificent bridges which he built. The Bank will not forget music this time either - sir Edward Elgar, one of our most famous composers of the nineteenth century is a possible choice. If they choose a woman, the faminist (女权主义者) movement has two representatives; Boadicea, Queen of the early English tribes of the first century, who fought against the Romans, or Emily Pankhurst, who fought to get the vote for women early in this century.
What do you think of this selection?
There’s no one who was alive in the last fifty years on it and no political leader. Why not?
Why doesn’t the Bank choose popular heroes-like the Beetles, for example?
Write and tell "BBC Modern English" who is on your list for this banknote. Imagine you have to choose some personality to go on a banknote in your own country. Who is your choice?
26. "Inflation" in this story means _________.
○A. "rise in prices resulting from an increase in the money, credit, etc."
○B. "the rise and fall of the voice in speaking"
○C. "the process of inflating or being inflated"
○D. "an illness brought by infection"
27. Who dislike(s) inflation most?
○A. Ordinary people.
○B. Merchants.
○C. Officials.
○D. The Bank of England.
28. Why is there no-one who was alive in the last fifty years in the selection and no political leader?
○A. Because the Bank of England does not like contemporary figures and political leaders.
○B. Because living personalities and political leaders are not as influential as anyone in this selection.
○C. Because the Bank of England usually chooses safe and historical personalities.
○D. Because living personalities and political leaders are not allowed to be put on the back of the new banknote.
29. The British army at Waterloo was fighting against _________.
○A. the Indian army
○B. the French army
○C. the Spanish army
○D. the Russian army
30. BBC Modern English is _____________.
○A. a book
○B. a TV program
○C. a TV guide
○D. a magazine for students of English as a foreign language
第四部分 概括大意 (20分)
给下面一篇文章的每一段概括大意。
每一段的主题用一个或几个单词表示,空出的词已给出了第一个字母,请把其余字母补全。
31. F abundance and Price Rising
The long years of food shortage in this country have suddenly give way to apparent abundance. Stores and shops are choked with food. Rationing (定量供应) is virtually suspended (暂停), and overseas suppliers (供应商) have been asked to hold back deliveries. Yet, instead of joy, there is wide-spread uneasiness and confusion. Why do food prices keep on rising when there seems to be so much more food about?
Is the abundance only temporary, or has it come to stay?
Does it mean that we need to think less now about producing more food at home?
No one knows what to expect.
32. Rea
The recent growth of export surpluses on the world food market has certainly been unexpectedly great, partly because a strange sequence of two successful grain harvests in North America is now being followed by a third. Most of Britain’s overseas suppliers of meat, too, are offering more this year and home production has also risen.
33. E of Food Situation
But the effect of all this on the food situation in this country has been made worse by a simultaneous rise in food prices, due chiefly to the gradual cutting down of government support for food. The shops are overstocked (存货过多) with food out only because there is more food available, but also because people, frightened by high prices, are buying less of it.
34. Fa of World Prices
Moreover, the rise in domestic prices has come at a time when world pries have begun to fall with the result that imported food, with the exception of grain, is often cheaper than the home-produced variety. And now grain prices, too, are falling. Consumers are beginning to ask why they should not be enabled to benefit form this trend.
35. The Res of Farmers Fear
The significance of these developments is not lost on farmers. The older generation have seen it all happen before. Despite the present price and market guarantees, farmers fear they are about to be squeezed between cheap food imports and a shrinking home market. Present production is running at 51 per cent above pre-war levels, and the government has called for an expansion to 60 per cent by 1956; but repeated Ministerial (内阁的) advice is carrying little weight and the expansion programme is not working very well.
第五部分 阅读理解 (120分)
Passage 1
There are striking differences between financial markets on the Continent of Europe on the one hand, and in Britain on the other. In Britain, the market is really the City of London. It is a free market:
and it controls most of the flow of savings to investment. On the Continent, either a few banks or government institutions dominate the money markets. In France and Italy, for example, government bureaucrats (官僚) direct the flow of funds to suit their economic plans. In Germany the flow is directed by the all-powerful banks. In Britain there is more free interplay (相互作用) of market forces and far fewer regulations, rules and "red tape". A French banker summed it up this way :
" On the Continent you can’t do anything unless you’ve been old you can; in England on the other hand you can do everything as long as you haven’t been told not to."
There are many basic reasons for these differences. One is that Continental savers (储蓄者) tend to prefer gold, cash or short-term assets. They invest only 10% of their savings in institutions like pension funds or insurance companies. But in Britain 50% of savings goes to them, and they, in turn, invest directly in equity (证券) market. A far lower proportion of savings is put in the banks in the form of liquid assets than on the Continent. Continent governments intervene directly or through the banks to collect saving together and transform them into medium or long-term loans for investment. The equity market is largely by-passed. On the Continent economic planning tends to be far more centralized (把……集中起来) than in Britain. In Britain it is possible to influence decisions affecting the country’s economy from within the City. It attracts a skilled and highly qualified work force. In France, on the other hand, an intelligent young man who wants a career in finance would probably find the civil service more attractive.
In Britain the market or more accurately, money tends to be regarded as an end in itself. On the Conti