● Read the article about commercial bank.● Choose the correct word to fill each gap.● For

● Read the article about commercial bank.

● Choose the correct word to fill each gap.

● For each question 29-40, mark one letter (A, B or C) on your Answer Sheet.

Commercial Banks

Commercial banks play an important role (29)______ national (30)______ .

(31)______ the end of May 1995, China has 15 commercial banks, the International Business reported. Eight of these are (32)______ nationwide. They are: the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, the Agricultural Bank of China, the Bank of China, the People's Construction Bank of China, the Communications Bank, the CITIC Industrial Bank, the China Everbright Bank and the Huaxia Bank.

There are six (33)______ shareholding banks. They are: the Merchant's Bank, the Guandong Development Bank, the Shenzhen Development Bank, the Fuzhou Industrial Bank, the Shanghai Pudong Development Bank and the Hainan Development Bank.

Apart (34)______ these, there is the (35)______ of the People's Construction Bank of China, the China Investment Bank and two housing deposit banks. They are fully (36)______ by the People's Bank of China.

To add (37)______ the 15, the Minsheng Banking Corp was set up in January 1996. It is now the (38)______ non-State bank.

Five foreign banks have so far been (39)______ to run branch offices in Beijing. Here is a (40)______ of them:

● Bank of Tokyo Tel 5931640

● Citibank of the United States Tel 5004425

● Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Tel 5001121

● Nanyang Commercial Bank Tel 5139026

● Industrial Bank of Japan Tel 5954728

(29)______

A．at

B．on

C．in