12秋东北财经大学《外刊经贸文章选读》在线作业一（随

东财《外刊经贸文章选读》在线作业一（随机）
试卷总分：100
单选题
一、单选题（共 25 道试题，共 100 分。）
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1. As the ranks of losers grow, opinion surveys now show ordinary Japanese are deeply anxious, worried about their jobs, and ____ for change.
A. yearning
B. yawning
C. yarning
D. yoking
满分：4 分
2. That might happen if employers can’t find enough _____ workers to fill the information-intensive jobs that drive the economy now.
A. experiencing
B. fiscal
C. familiar
D. skilled
此题选: D 满分：4 分
3. 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
满分：4 分
4. In one ______the auto-making market in Brazil was changed forever.
A. stroke
B. stick
C. stone
D. stock
满分：4 分
5. The truth is that the U.S. has no choice but to step ____ to the challenge.
A. up
B. in
C. on
D. asid
满分：4 分
6. The soldiers were ______on the opposite hill.
A. arranged
B. made
C. ordered
D. arrayed
此题选: D 满分：4 分
7. 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
满分：4 分
8. Building and ______a political consensus for bailing out Asia will likely be the biggest and most complex foreign-policy challenge facing Clinton in the remainder of his term.
A. holding up
B. holding together
C. holding with
D. holding on
满分：4 分
9. President of Fiat in 1992 unexpectedly slashed taxes ____ what were dubbed “popular cars”.
A. at
B. with
C. of
D. on
此题选: D 满分：4 分
10. Thailand announced a bank reconstructuring plan last month, but none of the banks ____has agreed to it.
A. by far
B. so far
C. so far as
D. far from
满分：4 分
11. President Kim, and whoever succeeds him, will have to form a national___ if Koreans are to go forward together.
A. accordance
B. consequence
C. hypnosis
D. consensus
此题选: D 满分：4 分
12. 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
满分：4 分
13. They are pushing ahead with mergers in hopes of ____ excess banking capacity.
A. squeezing off
B. squeezing out
C. squeezing the shoes
D. squeezing over
满分：4 分
14. Cisco now handles 70% of the support calls it receives without human intervention , ______ the Web.
A. across
B. via
C. in
D. without
满分：4 分
15. Retail sales have been ____ recently.
A. upbeat
B. depressing
C. upsetting
D. gloomy
满分：4 分
16. Higher productivity also means that the economy may be _____ of sustaining 5% unemployment rates or lower without triggering inflation.
A. capable
B. able
C. interested
D. efficient
满分：4 分
17. The U.S. sees the next century a s the age of globalization, and a devastated Asia will make a ____ of it.
A. mockery
B. laugh
C. smile
D. sneer
满分：4 分
18. A deadbeat can hang _____ a piece of property for five years before a bank can claim it.
A. onto
B. up
C. down
D. off
满分：4 分
19. Information technology has doubtless _____ the stability of business operations.
A. enhanced
B. raised
C. increased
D. rose
满分：4 分
20. 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
满分：4 分
21. “Set the world on fire” is similar to ___ in meaning.
A. notorious
B. famous
C. familiar
D. ablaze
满分：4 分
22. 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
此题选: D 满分：4 分
23. Productivity gains lift the economy onto a faster growth track, but they don’t ____ the ups and downs of the business cycle.
A. elevate
B. emigrate
C. eloquent
D. eliminate
此题选: D 满分：4 分
24. Many dispirited traders ____ out of the Tokyo Stock Exchange because of fall of the Nikkei stock average.
A. streamed
B. crowed
C. scattered
D. strode
满分：4 分
25. Conversely, if spending on computers ______ , that’s a sign that companies had little faith in the productivity benefits of information technology.
A. lags
B. exceeds
C. overtakes
D. surpass
满分：4 分