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一、单选题（共 25 道试题，共 100 分。）V 1.  That _____ productivity paradox now seems to be over.
A. so calling
B. so-calling
C. so-called
D. so called
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2.  Corporate Japan is turning ______ itself, with the strong dumping the weak.
A. on
B. off
C. down
D. up
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3.  Congressional critics on the right and left have already geared up to ___ the IMF.
A. take aim at
B. take it out of
C. bring in
D. buy out
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4.  For now, the world is breathing a bit easier. By mid-January, the South Korean crisis seemed to stabilize, Suharto was making conciliatory gestures to foreign bankers, and Asian stocks and currencies were starting to ______back.
A. bound
B. boundary
C. bounce
D. booth
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5.  That could be enough to ______Greenspan to relax.
A. confirm
B. persuade
C. suggest
D. insist
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6.  For example, consumer spending and office construction far ______the rest of the economy during the 1980s.
A. outpaced
B. outcome
C. outbreak
D. outraged
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7.  Each has ____ new notebook or desktop offerings lately, and Sony’s not selling video game machine has come from nowhere to become a $3 million global business.
A. launched
B. had
C. attempted
D. carried on
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8.  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
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9.  Thanks ___ $ 515 billion worth of investment, the multinationals have moved closer to their customers.
A. for
B. of
C. by
D. to
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10.  For your future ____, we operate an insurance scheme, covering the equipment against breakdowns for a small additional cost.
A. awareness
B. concern
C. notice
D. reference
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11.  Computers are not the only capital _____ that have a payoff.
A. goods
B. good
C. merchandise
D. commodities
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12.  Global leaders should appoint an ____ task force that would have real clout to deal with the problem on a regional basis.
A. emergency
B. immediacy
C. imminence
D. immenseness
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13.  That leaves the conglomerate ___ the upper hand.
A. behind
B. in
C. with
D. to
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14.  Fiat’s grand strategists convened in Turin and decided that a new round of globalization was more ____ than before.
A. emergent
B. imperative
C. inductive
D. instructive
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15.  For a long time, ___economies like Japan and Korea were few and relatively small compared with importing economies like the U.S.
A. export-led
B. import-led
C. information-intensive
D. technology-intensive
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16.  Fiat’s campaign to win this war has been ____, which makes other companies to follow its example.
A. instructive
B. inviting
C. industrious
D. inductive
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17.  Computers in ____ sectors have seen their shares tumble some 10%since the start of the year.
A. protecting
B. protected
C. kept
D. keeping
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18.  Federal budget talks were _____ a standstill until May 3.
A. on
B. in
C. at
D. with
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19.  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
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20.  Economists fear political concerns will have the government intervening __ the stock market.
A. on
B. upon
C. in
D. with
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21.  Fiat’s Brazilian operations now ____ for 18% of the conglomerate’s total auto sales.
A. take up
B. occupy
C. account
D. make up
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22.  Company coffers are brimming ____ profits.
A. with
B. over
C. of
D. for
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23.  Creating a new chip design or a new software program is a ____ effort that relies almost exclusively on well-paid domestic workers.
A. labor-intensive
B. labor-oriented
C. technology-intensive
D. technology-oriented
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24.  For years, she ______the hope that her husband might still be alive.
A. valued
B. cherished
C. treasured
D. grasped
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25.  Engineer is an ____ post in Fiat.
A. industrious
B. illustrious
C. noteless
D. nameless
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