高级商务英语二2014上半年第一次作业 -answer

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高级商务英语二2014上半年第一次作业

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The bond's maturity date refers to a future date on which the issuer pays the principal to the investor.

A credit rating estimates the credit worthiness of an individual, corporation, or even a country. It is an evaluation made by credit bureaus of a borrower’s overall credit history.[ Credit ratings are calculated from financial history and current assets and liabilities. Typically, a credit rating tells a lender or investor the probability of the subject being able to pay back a loan.

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The manager has got a good business _______ so the company is doing well. 答案

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D. sense

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I bought this dress _____ credit.

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D. on

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Their inspection service is charged at reasonable _____.

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C. rates

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Police found that a large number of fake notes were in _____.

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A. circulation

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You can avoid _____money if you are smart.

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C. losing

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A _______ will be offered to information leading to the arrest of the bank robber. 答案

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C. reward

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The _______ is just around the corner and you won't miss it.

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A. bicycle shop

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What he has done is far from _______.

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D. satisfactory

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You'll find this map of great _______ in helping you to get round London.

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C. value

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You can take as many as you like because they are free of _______.

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B. charge

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2.Choose the correct word from A,B,C, or D to fill each gap.

A 11 may sell a bond before its 12date. Bond prices, like stock prices, depend 13 how much people are willing to pay. However, bond prices do not change as much from day to day as stock prices. One of the 14 that influence bond prices is the change of interest rates in the economy. For instance, 15 you bought a $1,000 bond five years ago at a fixed rate of 5% interest. Your bond would 16 $50 a year 17 interest. However, suppose that this year the interest rate on18 money is 8% and would pay $80 a year in interest. If you want to sell your bond this year, no buyer would be willing to pay $1,000 for it. To sell your bond 19 the bond market, you would have to sell 20 less than $1,000.

Another factor affecting bond price is the credit 21 of the company. When it goes down, the price of the bond may go down also.

11.

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D. bondholder

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C. maturity

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A. on

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B. factors

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B. suppose

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A. pay

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C. in

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C. loaned

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C. on

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A. for

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B. rating

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3. Choose the correct word from A,B,C, or D to fill each gap.

Young women and men are among the world's greatest assets. They bring energy, talent and creativity to economies and create the foundations for future development. But today's 22 also represent a group with serious vulnerabilities in the world of work. In recent years slowing global employment growth and increasing unemployment, underemployment and disillusionment have_ 23__ young people ___24__. As a result, today's youth are faced__ 25 __ a growing deficit of decent work opportunities and high levels of economic and social uncertainty.

This report adds to growing evidence of a global situation in which young people face increasing difficulties when entering the __26___ force market. One of the ___27___ findings of the report is that a global deficit of decent work opportunities has resulted in a situation in which one out of three youth in the world is ___28___ seeking but unable to find work (the unemployed), has given up __29___ the job search entirely (the discouraged) or is working but still living below the US$2 a day ___30___ line (the working poor). This second version of the GET Youth updates the key world and regional youth labor market indicators, but offers original research as well, __31____ a careful estimation of the number and share of youth who work but are living in households of less than US$1 or 2 a day (the so-called youth working poor). The working poor youth estimate can serve ___32___ a proxy for income-related underemployment and therefore fits nicely __33____ the framework presented in the report for __34_ youth who are most at risk to __35___ from degrees of exclusion from decent work and therefore a framework for identifying whom would benefit most from targeted interventions.

Without the right foothold __36___ which to start out right in the labor market, young people are _37__to make choices that will improve their own job prospects and those of their future dependents. This, _38__, perpetuates the cycle of insufficient education, low-productivity employment and working poverty from one generation to the next. The

report, therefore, adds urgency __39__ the UN call for development of strategies aimed to give young people a chance to make __40 __ of their productive potential through decent employment.

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A. youth

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B. hit

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C. the worst

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C. with

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D. labor

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B. principal

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A. either

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D. on

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B. poverty

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B. including

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C. as

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B. within

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D. identifying

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D. suffering

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C. from

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B. less able

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C. in turn

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D. to

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B. the most

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4. Read the articles below and answer questions followed.

Passage 1:

Housing price in china has always aroused heated discussions among property developers and ordinary Chinese. To many property developers and local government officials, housing price in china is still low compared with many developed countries. However, the average housing price in the US is only 8,000 yuan per square meter, while in china, it is even higher than in the united states. This shows that there are some bubbles in Chinese real estate market, the international finance news reported.

Although the average price of residential houses in the united states, after converted to renminbi, is about 8,000 yuan per square meter, the houses in us are not sold in terms of building area, as most Chinese property developers do when they sell their houses. If us property developers sell their houses according to the building area, then the housing price will be even lower than 8,000 yuan per square meter. In most big Chinese cities, such as Beijing, shanghai, and Shenzhen, houses are sold at a price even higher than those in the US. The high housing sales price in large cities in china proves that Chinese real estate market does have some bubbles. Moreover, Chinese houses cannot be compared with houses in us in terms of building quality, environment and supporting facilities. Furthermore, it should be noted that American people’s average income is several dozen times higher than that of Chinese people. How can the Chinese afford to buy a house which is even more expensive than that sold in us?

At the beginning of 2009, Chinese government issued a set of policies that aimed to benefit the public. Now in order to reduce the high housing prices, the government can regulate the real estate market by raising tax on property industry and controlling the release of loans and lands to property developers. At the same time, the government should allow people to build more houses through various fund-raising channels, such as funds collected from buyers or raised by working units. By applying these multiple means, it is expected that the high housing prices can be lowered.

41. What is the average housing price per square meter in china?

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D. it’s not mentioned here

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42. Which of the following does not support the idea that the average housing price in china is even higher than in the United States?

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D. There are more people who need houses in china.

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43. What is the main idea of this passage?

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案： A. The housing price in china is so high that the government should do something useful to prevent it.

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44. How many measures are mentioned in the last paragraph in order to reduce the high housing prices?

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B. three

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45. Which is not an option for the government?

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D. Encouraging people to rent instead of buying houses

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Passage 2:

Open-outcry trading is supposed to be a quaint, outdated practice, rapidly being replaced by sleeker, cheaper electronic systems. Try telling that to the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX), the world's largest commodities exchange. On November 1st the NYMEX opened an open-outcry pit in Dublin to handle Brent crude futures, the benchmark contract for pricing two-thirds of the world's oil.

The NYMEX is trying to snatch liquidity from London's International Petroleum Exchange (IPE), which trades the most Brent contracts; the New York exchange has hitherto concentrated on West Texas Intermediate, an American benchmark grade. The new pit is a response to the IPE's efforts to modernize. On the same day as NYMEX traders started shouting Brent prices in Dublin, the IPE did away with its morning open-outcry session: now such trades must be electronic, or done in the pit after lunch.

The New York exchange claims that customers, such as hedge funds or energy companies, prefer open-outcry because it allows for more liquidity. Although most other exchanges are

heading in the opposite direction, in commodity markets such as the NYMEX, pressure from "locals"--self-employed traders--is helping to prop up open-outcry, although some reckon that customers pay up to five times as much as with electronic systems. Even the IPE has no plans to abolish its floor. Only last month it signed a lease, lasting until 2011, for its trading floor in London.

Dublin's new pit is "showing promise", says Rob Laughlin, a trader with Man Financial, despite a few technical glitches. On its first day it handled 5,726 lots of Brent (each lot, or contract, is 1,000 barrels), over a third of the volume in the IPE's new morning electronic session. By the year's end, predicts Mr Laughlin, it should be clear whether the venture will be viable. It would stand a better chance if it moved to London. It may yet: it started in Ireland because regulatory approval could be obtained faster there than in Britain.

Ultimately, having both exchanges offering similar contracts will be unsustainable. Stealing liquidity from an established market leader, as the NYMEX is trying to do, is a hard task. Eurex, Europe's largest futures exchange, set up shop in Chicago this year, intending to grab American Treasury-bond contracts from the Chicago Board of Trade. It has made little headway. And the NYMEX has dabbled in Brent contracts before, without success.

Given the importance of liquidity in exchanges, why do the IPE and the NYMEX not band together? There have been merger talks before, and something might yet happen. Some say that the freewheeling NYMEX and the more staid IPE could never mix. For now, in any case, the two exchanges will slug it out--across the Irish Sea as well as across the Atlantic.

46. The NYMEX and IPE are___________.

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A. rivals that are competing in the oil trading market

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47. According to the author, one of the reasons that the NYMEX takes open-outcry trading is__________.

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A. the preference of its customers

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48. The word “glitches” (Line 2, Paragraph 4) most probably means_________.

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B. problems

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49. From Paragraph 4 we can infer that_________.

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C. London is a better business location for energy exchanges than Dublin

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50.We can draw a conclusion from the text that___________.

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B. it’s very unlikely that the NYMEX and the IPE could combine their

businesses