2008年7月广东自考外刊经贸知识选读真题00096

全国2008年7月高等教育自学考试

外刊经贸知识选读试题

课程代码：00096

一、单项选择题(本大题共15小题，每小题2分，共30分)

在每小题列出的四个备选项中只有一个可替代句中划线的单词或词组，请将其代码填写在题后的括号内。错选、多选或未选均无分。

1.Economic problems were exacerbated by three bad harvests with the result that national income and the volume of foreign trade contracted during 1960—1962.(     )

A. exaggerated B. celebrated

C. worsened D. facilitated

2.The following year, a tax law for joint venture was promulgated.(     )

A. announced B. prolonged

C. transformed D. upgraded

3.Growing ties between China’s traders and their partners in Taiwan and Hong Kong are creating an unofficial but formidable “greater China” trade bloc.(     )

A. formal B. powerful

C. fundamental D. rational

4.The index of nonoil primary commodity prices in nominal dollar terms declines for the third consecutive year, and the index in real terms hits an all-time low.(     )

A. communicative B. intensive

C. selective D. successive

5.This push to expand U.S. manufacturing exports is considered essential politically to fulfill the President’s promise.(     )

A. promotion B. purpose

C. pressure D. pull

6.One of the central justifications for the single market was its ability to create greater prosperity, but it is making its debut just as Europe traverses one of its roughest economic storms in years.

(     )

A. goes through B. goes off

C. goes down D. goes on