听力原文:What percentage of American GDP was occupied by agriculture?(34)A.0.7 percent.B.2
听力原文:What percentage of American GDP was occupied by agriculture?
(34)
A.0.7 percent.
B.20 percent.
C.0.9 percent.
D.80 percent.
听力原文:What percentage of American GDP was occupied by agriculture?
(34)
A.0.7 percent.
B.20 percent.
C.0.9 percent.
D.80 percent.
听力原文:M: OK, Ms. lee. Could you give me an idea about the workforce in Singapore?
F: Yes, sir. A total of 11% of the workforce are professional or technical workers. And a further 6% are employed in administrative jobs.
M: What about people like you who have clerical or office jobs?
F: Well, 13% of the workforce work as office clerks, secretaries, typists and receptionists.
M: Well, how about jobs in production...
For questions 1--8 you will hear 8 short recordings.
For each question, mark one letter (A, B or C) for the correct answer.
What percentage of the workforce in Singapore are for clerical or office jobs?
A.6%
B.11%
C. 13%
What conclusion can you make about the elite universities in the US?
A.Prospects for female faculty in these institutions are dim.
B.Some less talented female doctorates feel their prospects as staff in these institutions are dim.
C.None of these institutions like female doctorates to join them.
D.Female doctorates will be the lowest in status in these institutions.
听力原文: (24) The Reserve Bank of Australia said yesterday that it would cut official interest rates by 0.5 percentage points to around 7.0 percent, following falls in inflation and in an attempt to help buoy the economy.
(25) The cut is the first change in rates since December 1994, when the bank increased rates to slow the economy, but the bank warned it would lift rates again if wages grew too fast.
"The Bank's forecasts suggest that both underlying and headline inflation will be in the 2.3 percent range for some time," the central bank's governor, Bernie Fraser said, adding that wages and salaries would be the key influence on inflation.
What were the official interest rates before the Reserve Bank of Australia announced a cut?
A.Around 7.0 percent.
B.Around 7.5 percent.
C.Around 6.5 percent.
D.Around 0.5 percent.
Section A
Directions: In this section, you will hear 8 short conversations and 2 long conversations. At the end of each conversation, one or more questions will be asked about what was said. Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken only once. After each question there will be a pause. During the pause, you must read the four choices marked A, B, C and D, and decide which is the best answer.
听力原文:W: Tom, can you tell me what percentage of the United States' population is registered to vote?
M: Off the top of my head, I'm afraid I don't know.
What does Tom mean'?
(12)
A.He put file information on top of his desk
B.He doesn't know the answer right now.
C.The top of his head hurts.
D.He's not sure of the population of the US.
短文理解
听力原文: Credit card fraud is a big problem. Card fraud in the U.S. involving bank cards alone totaled $ 680 million last year, which represented an increase of more than 35% over a 10-year period. However, the tide is beginning to turn, and the growth percentage of fraud is diminishing technologies are becoming more widely used. In 1994, Visa card fraud in the U. S. was as new equal to the figure posted in 1992. At Master Card, bogus card transactions rose 14% from 1993 to 1994. Even so, the growth rate has slowed considerably from the beginning of the decade. That looks good news for bankers and for average card holders as well.
21. What is the passage mainly about?
22.How much did bank card fraud involve in U.S. last year?
23.What conclusion can we draw concerning card fraud?
(21)
A.Bank card business.
B.Bank card fraud.
C.Technologies used in bank.
D.International card fraud.
The cut is the first change in rates since December 1994, when the bank increased rates to slow the economy, but the bank warned it would lift rates again if wages grew too fast.
"The Bank's forecasts suggest that both underlying and headline inflation will be in the 2-3 percent range for some time," the central bank's governor, Bernie Fraser said, adding that wages and salaries would be the key influence on inflation.
What were the official interest rates before the Reserve Bank of Australia announced a cut?
A.Around 7. 0 percent.
B.Around 7.5 percent.
C.Around 6.5 percent.
D.Around 0. 5 percent.
听力原文: The United States has the largest economy in the world. The size of an economy is usually described in terms of the Gross Domestic Product. The Gross Domestic Product, or G.D.P., is the value of all goods and services produced in a country in a year. In 2004, the United States had a G.D.P. estimated at close to 12 million dollars. What percentage of that was agriculture? The government says just 9/10 of one percent. Farm workers make up an even smaller percentage of American labor: 7/10 of one percent.
In 2004, almost 20 percent came from industry—and almost 80 percent came from services. The number of farms continues to decrease in America, whereas farm earnings have risen to record levels in recent years. Agricultural productivity continues to increase because of new technology and methods. But the Agriculture Department estimates that 9 percent of farm income last year came from government payments. That number is expected to decrease in the future.
Exports have provided American farmers with an average of about 25 percent of their money for the last 8 fifteen years. Canada and Mexico are two of the three biggest markets for American farmers. In fact, in 2002, Canada replaced Japan for the first time as the top buyer of American agricultural exports. The Department of Agriculture says exports to the European Union are slowing. But exports to other countries within the Americas and to Asia are growing.
(33)
A.American economy.
B.American agriculture.
C.American industry.
D.American GDP.
听力原文: The United States has the largest economy in the world (32). The size of an economy is usually described in terms of the Gross Domestic Product. The Gross Domestic Product, or GDP, is the value of all goods and services produced in a country in a year. In 2004, the United States had a GDP estimated at close to 12 million million dollars. What percentage of that was agriculture (32) (33)? The government says just 9/10 of one percent (33). Farm workers make up an even smaller percentage of American labor: 7/10 of one percent.
In 2004, almost 20 percent came from industry--and almost 80 percent came from services. The number of farms continues to decrease in America, whereas farm earnings have risen to record levels in recent years. Agricultural productivity continues to increase because of new technology and methods(34). But the Agriculture Department estimates that 9 percent of farm income last year came from government payments. That number is expected to decrease in the future.
Exports have provided American farmer farmers with an average of about 25 percent of their money for the last fifteen years. Canada and Mexico are two of the three biggest markets for American farmers. In fact, in 2002, Canada replaced Japan for the first time as the top buyer of American agricultural exports(35). The Department of Agriculture says exports to the European Union are slowing. But exports to other countries within the Americas and to Asia are growing.
(33)
A.American agriculture.
B.American industry.
C.American GDP.
D.American economy.
SECTION C NEWS BROADCAST
Directions: In this section, you will hear several news items. Listen to them carefully and then answer the questions that follow.
听力原文: India's industrial growth rate fell more than 3 percentage points in the nine months to December 1998 from the corresponding period the previous year, reports said yesterday. According to the Finance Ministry, industrial production growth fell to 3.5 per cent between April and December 1998, from 6.7 per cent during the previous year. Several infrastructure and core industries involving items such as electricity, coat, steel, crude oil, cement and fertilizer reported a growth rate of just 2 per cent, compared with 5 per cent during the same period the previous year.
What is the news about?
A.Making comparisons of industrial growth rates.
B.Analyzing causes of drop in industrial growth rate.
C.Suggesting solutions to economic recession.
D.Speculating on future industrial growth rate.
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