The China boom is by now a well-documented phenome...

第1题

听力原文：Economists say that the main spur to the global soybean boom is the emergence of

a middle class in China, much of whose newly disposable income has been spent on a richer, more varied diet. Over the past decade, China has been transformed from a net exporter of soybeans to the world's largest importer in some years of whole soybeans as well as oil and meal byproducts.

Economists attribute the world soybean boom to the rise in soybean production in China and its increased export of related products.

A．正确

B．错误

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第2题

According to the text, some people lay blame on Chinese boom in that ______.A．chinese is d

According to the text, some people lay blame on Chinese boom in that ______.

A．chinese is difficult for its complex grammatical and tonal system.

B．some countries fear that China will take their global market share.

C．the position of other languages has been marginalized by Chinese.

D．some countries fear to be politically and economically controlled by China.

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第3题

听力原文：China's car boom is presenting the country of 1.3 billion with a dilemma.The Beij

听力原文：China's car boom is presenting the country of 1.3 billion with a dilemma.

The Beijing Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games, for instance, is experimenting with a plan to limit the number of vehicles entering the city during the two-week sports extravaganza next summer by using odd-and even-numbered license plates. Traffic gridlock and air pollution have been haunting organizers. International Olympic Committee President Jacques Rogge even hinted at the possibility of rescheduling some endurance events if air quality doesn't improve. The country's car population has been growing due to an emerging middle class that desires personal mobility. Already, China has become the world's second largest consumer of auto- mobiles and the third biggest maker of automobiles.

What does the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games plan to do to solve the problems caused by car boom？

A．Reduce the number of cars by increasing the relevant tax.

B．Reschedule some endurance events to avoid the traffic jam.

C．Limit the number of vehicles by using odd-and even-numbered license plates.

D．Prevent cars from entering Beijing from other provinces.

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第4题

SECTIONACOMPOSITION（35 MIN)Recently, China has seen a boom in selling private cars. The pr

SECTION A COMPOSITION (35 MIN)

Recently, China has seen a boom in selling private cars. The private car has greatly improved individual’s freedom of movement. Moreover, they have become a symbol of status. However, the use of private cars has brought serious problems like air pollution and road accidents.

Write on ANSWER SHEET TWO a composition of about 200 words on the following topic:

HOW CAN THE USE OF PRIVATE MOTOR VEHICLES BE REDUCED？

You are to write in three parts.

In the first part state the necessity of reducing the use of private motor vehicles.

In the second part, state what your suggested ways are.

In the last part, bring what you have written to a natural conclusion or a summary.

Marks will be awarded for content, organization, grammar and appropriateness. Failure to follow the instructions may result in a loss of marks.

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第5题

The China boom is by now a well-documented phenomenon. Who hasn't【1】the Middle Kingdom's a

stounding economic growth (8 percent annually} , its tremendous consumer market (1.2 billion people), the investment enthusiasm of foreign suitors ($40 billion in foreign direct investment last year【2】)？ China is an economic wonder.【3】Nicholas Lardy of the Brookings Institution, a Washington D．C．-based think tank, "No country【4】its foreign trade as fast as China over the last 20 years. Japan doubled its foreign trade over【5】period; China's foreign trade was quintupled(使成五倍). They've become the pre-eminent producer of labor-intensive manufacturing goods in the world. "

But there's been【6】from the dazzling China growth story-namely, the Chinese I multinational. No major Chinese companies have yet established themselves, or their brands,【7】the global stage. But things are now starting to change.【8】100 years of poverty and chaos, of being overshadowed by foreign countries and multinationals, Chinese industrial companies are starting to make a mark on the world.

A new generation of large and credible firms【9】in China in the electronics, appliance and even high-tech sectors. Some have【10】critical mass on the mainland and are now seeking new outlets for their production-through exports and by building Chinese factories abroad, chiefly in Southeast Asia.

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A．listened

B．listened to

C．heard

D．heard of

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第6题

听力原文：China's economy showed unexpected strength in the second quarter as industrial ou

听力原文： China's economy showed unexpected strength in the second quarter as industrial output and investment remained robust despite government attempts to engineer a slowdown, data on Wednesday showed.

China's gross domestic product in the second quarter grew 9.5 per cent from a year earlier, above market estimates for a 9.3 percent rise. It was the eighth straight quarter of annual growth over 9 percent.

Many economists, pointing to falling oil demand and weaker steel and property prices, had expected a moderate slowdown in growth for the second quarter and the rest of the year.

"The need for slowing the economy is still quite obvious, 'although there are people arguing there will be some adjustment corning through automatically as company margins are being squeezed," said Yiping Huang, a Citigroup economist in Hong Kong.

"There are still some problems in the economy that policy makers need to address," he added.

Wednesday's data showed growth still being fueled by an export boom, a sensitive political issue between China and the United States.

The strength of the economy may reinforce the conviction of critics in Washington and elsewhere that the yuan's peg of 8.28 to the dollar is un fairly low, but analysts discerned no new trends in the data to add urgency to the currency reform. debate.

"This data shouldn't have any implications for a yuan revaluation. That's another story," said Yasuo Sone, an economist with Nomura Inter national in Hong Kong.

A ______rise of industrial output had been expected of the second quarter.

A．8%

B．9%

C．9.3%

D．9.5%

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第7题

READING PASSAGE 3You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 27-40, which are based on

READING PASSAGE 3

You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 27-40, which are based on Reading Passage 3 below.

Are You Being Served？

The world's factory, it turns out, has a sizeable canteen attached, not to mention an office block and shopping mall. Last month's official revision of China's gross domestic product revealed an economy worth 16 trillion yuan (＄1.9 trillion) in 2004, 17% more than previously thought. Some ＄265 billion of the increase--93% of it--was ascribed to the services sector. As a result, services' share of the economy has jumped by nine percentage points, to 41%, compared with 46% for manufacturing and 13% for primary industries (mainly agriculture and mining).

Where has all this extra activity come from？ The bulk of it is obvious to any traveller in China. As people grow wealthier, they want more restaurants and bars, clothes stores, car dealerships, bookshops, private hospitals, English language classes and beauty salons. In many of these businesses, however, turnover and profits have not previously been captured by a statistical system geared to measuring factory production. The small, often private, companies that dominate these areas have also often been at pains to escape notice--and therefore taxes.

Li Deshui, commissioner of China's National Bureau of Statistics, confirms that most of the newly unearthed GDP comes from three categories. The first is wholesale, retail and catering; the second, transport, storage, post and telecommunications. While postal and telecoms services are still state-controlled and thus readily measured, more than a million small tracking and removal companies are not. The third activity is real estate, booming particularly in the coastal cities and increasingly inland too, leading to an influx of private money--not least from overseas speculators. Property development has, in turn, boosted demand for architects, decorators, do-it-yourself stores and other building services.

There is more to China's services boom than dishing up stir-fries, shipping boxes and fitting out apartments. Recent years have seen a surge in media and technology services, including the internet; in financial services such as leasing; and in education and leisure. In a small way, for example, China is starting to rival India as an outsourcing hub: less for call-centres that require excellent English than for such tasks as preparing reports and patent filings. In October Microsoft took a stake in a Chinese software firm in Dalian, a city in north-east China with a thriving outsourcing industry preparing tax returns and software for companies from Japan and South Korea.

China's rapid economic growth is fuelling demand for accountants, lawyers, bankers and all manner of consultants, as Chinese companies expand and restructure. Specialists in marketing, advertising and public relations advise on the relatively new area of marketing products and developing brands. The new wealth has other consequences, too. China now has nearly a million security guards. It can offer its new rich everything from cosmetic surgeons to pet salons.

Meanwhile, a huge new market is opening up for private education--fuelled by the combination of a poor public system, the preoccupation of middle-class parents with giving their (often) only child the best chances, and demand from business. Chinese families spend more on education than on anything except housing --the market for courses, books and materials more than doubled from 2002 levels, to ＄90 billion in 2005. Richer households have also caused a tourism boom, which is still chiefly domestic, though more mainlanders are venturing overseas as visa restrictions are lifted. The World Travel & Tourism Council predicts that China's annual tourism market will more than triple to ＄300 billion within a decade.

China's services sector, on this basis, is well-developed and roughly as large as those of Japan and South Korea

A．the total mount of goods produced in the world.

B．China.

C．the United States.

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第8题

Small, pink and very ugly. Hardly the qualities of a star, but they describe the deformed

mouse that was the media darling at a recent science exhibition in Beijing. With a complex tissue structure in the shape of a human ear grafted on to its back, the rosy rodent was a stunning symbol of the serious strides China is making in the field of biotechnology.

China is fast applying the latest life-science techniques learned from the West to aggressively pursue genome research. It's establishing its own centers of technical excellence to build a scientific base to compete directly with the United States and Europe. With a plentiful supply of smart young scientists at home and lots of interest abroad biotechnology is on the brink of a boom in China. And in the view of foreign scientists, Beijing is playing a clever hand, maximizing the opportunities open to them.

For the moment, the cooperation exists mostly with Europe and the U.S. But Asia's other biotech leaders, Japan, Singapore and Korea, also are recognizing China's potential as an attractive low-cost base to conduct research. These partnerships——and China's advancement in the field of biotechnology——could help benefit the rest of Asia: China's rapid progress in improving crop yields will address food-security concerns in the region. In addition, China is more likely to focus on developing cheap technology that its predominantly poor population——and those of other Asian countries——can afford.

There remain, however, serious barriers to the development of a strong biotech industry. Among them are a poor domestic legal framework, weak enforcement of intellectual-property rights and loose adherence to international standards. China is a signatory of the International Bio Safely Protocol, which should mean adherence to global standards governing the conduct of field trials. But some observers are skeptical. "The regulations look good, but I haven't met one scientist who believes they are being fully adhered to," says a European science analyst.

If shortcuts are taken, then some of the recent scientific achievements trumpeted in the official press may never make it to market. But no matter how strict lab test are, other problems lie in wait. For example, there is a number of tasks it would take years to fulfill in the patents office, says one lawyer, leaving innovators with little protection if they take a product to market in China.

The mouse on display is most significant in that ______.

A．it has an ear in the shape of a human ear

B．it is unusually small and ugly as a star

C．it is the focus of the media at the exhibition

D．it indicates China's progress in biotechnology

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第9题

Small, pink and very ugly. Hardly the qualities of a star, but they describe the deformed

mouse that was the media darling at a recent science exhibition in Beijing. With a complex tissue structure in the shape of a human ear grafted on to its back, the rosy rodent was a stunning symbol of the serious strides China is making in the field of biotechnology.

China is fast applying the latest life-science techniques learned from the West m aggressively pursue genome research. It's establishing its own centers of technical excellence to build a scientific base to compete directly with the United States and Europe. With a plentiful supply of smart young scientists at home and lots of interest abroad biotechnology is on the brink of a boom in China and in the view of foreign scientists, Beijing is playing a clever hand, maximizing the opportunities open to them.

For the moment, the cooperation exists mostly with Europe and the U. S. But Asia's other biotech leaders, Japan, Singapore and Korea, also are recognizing China's potential as an attractive low-cost base to conduct research. These partnerships--and China's advancement in the field of biotechnology--could help benefit the rest of Asia: China's rapid progress in improving crop yields will address food-security concerns in the region. In addition, China is more likely to focus on developing cheap technology that its predominantly poor population--and those of other Asian countries--can afford.

There remain, however, serious barriers to the development of a strong biotech industry. Among them are a poor domestic legal framework, weak enforcement of intellectual-property rights and loose adherence to international standards. China is a signatory of the International Bio Safety Protocol, which should mean adherence to global standards governing the conduct of field trims. But some observers are skeptical. "The regulations look good, but I haven't met one scientist who believes they are being fully adhered to," says a European science analyst.

If shortcuts are taken, then some of the recent scientific achievements trumpeted in the official press may never make it to market. But no matter how strict lab tests are, other problems lie in wait. For example, there is a number of tasks it would take years to fulfill in the patents office, says one lawyer, leaving innovators with little protection if they take a product to market in China.

The mouse on display is most significant in that ______.

A．it has an ear in the shape of a human ear

B．it is unusually small and ugly as a star

C．it is the focus of. the media at the exhibition

D．it indicates China's progress in biotechnology

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第10题

听力原文：We've been living through times of plenty in recent decades, but no more. World g

rain sup- plies are low, there's just forty days' worth in stock and the long-term future looks bleak. Our demand for foods predicted to rise 50% by 2030. The statistics are startling. The world's population is set to explode from over 6 billion now to 9 billion by 2050. The increase is mainly in the developing world.

In countries like China and India, an economic boom is increasing their wealth and dramatically altering the traditional diet. New western habits are taking hold, the McDonald's wave becoming a familiar sight in unexpected places. More meat and dairy products require more land and water. All the ingredients are there for a future food crisis. And it's the first priority of the UK's new chief science adviser.

Which of the following statements is closest in meaning to the passage you have just heard？

A．There is plenty of grain in the world and people need not to worry about it.

B．The world's population is estimated to explode from over 6 billion now to 19 billion by 2050.

C．The population increase is mainly in undeveloped countries.

D．World demand for foods is predicted to rise 50% by 2030.

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