12月BEC中級閱讀模擬試題

1、12月BEC中級閱讀模擬試題) Comprehension1. What is international trade?2. What are the major motivations for private firm to operate international business?3. What measures do most companies usually adopt to avoid wild swings in the sales and profits?4. Pleas give the four major modes chosen by most companies

2、when entering into international trade.5. Could you find any difference between Direct Investment and Portfolio Investment? If you can, please tell the main reasons.6. What is MNE? What are its synonyms?7. What limits a firms sales?) Match each one on the left with its correct meaning on the right1.

3、 motivation A. to make continual efforts to gain sth.2. pursue B. the action of obtaining, esp. by efforts of careful attention. “采購，獲得”3. mark up C. which by is its nature can not be known by senses, not clear and certain, not real.4. procurement D. the goods (freight) carried by a ship, plane or v

4、ehicle.5. intangible E. the amount by which a price is raised.6. cargo F. profit, interest.7. royalty G. the net value of assets or interest, invest.8. equity股本，資產(chǎn)凈值 H. not needing other things or people, taking decisions alone.9. yield 投資收益，回報 I. a share of the profits.10. independent J. need or pu

5、rpose.1. J 2.A 3.E 4.B 5. C 6.D 7.I 8.G 9.F 10.H) Fill in the blanks with the words or expressions given below and if necessary, put the word in the right form.A. orientation B. diversify C. seek out D. differentiatefrom E. take advantage of F. undergo G. bring about H. correspond I. abandon J. amou

6、nt to K. Come after L. approach1. That factory is trying to B its products to sell in different markets.2. A successful businessman is always skilled in E every possible opportunity.3. Reforming and opening to the world has G great changes in our lives.4. Can you D this kind of operating the others?

7、5. Private firm going in for international business have a profit A6. He I his company and family and went away with all the money.7. The L of winter brings cold weather.8. The managers words J a refusal to the proposal.9. Company is always C the best way to gain more while cost less.10. The city ha

8、s F many changes during the last ten years.11. Direct investment usually K a firm has experience in exporting or importing.12. The goods dont H to the list of these I ordered.IV) Translate the following terms and phrases into Chinese;1. purchasing power 10.recovery2. sales potentials 11. recession3.

9、 mark-up 13. portfolio investment4. domestic markets 12. tangible goods5. finished goods 13. visible exports and imports6. profit margin 14. revenue and expenditure7. market share 15. excess capacity8. trade discrimination9. business cycles 16. licencing agreements) Translate the following sentences

10、 into Chinese;If the exporting market price exceeds the one at the importing country, a dumping margin exists on that particular sale. Then Under Article VI of GATT( General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade) 1994, and the Anti-Dumping Agreement, WTO Members can impose anti-dumping measures, if, after

11、investigation in accordance with the Agreement, a determination is made (a) that dumping is occurring, (b) that the domestic industry producing the like product in the importing country is suffering material injury, and (c) that there is a causal link between the two. Typically anti-dumping action m

12、eans charging extra import duty on the particular product from the particular exporting country in order to bring its price closer to the “normal value” or to remove the injury to domestic industry in the importing country.) Translate the following sentences into English;1.國際貿(mào)易有助于所有的國家促進經(jīng)濟的發(fā)展。Intern

13、ational trade helps all nations to boost the economic growth.2.對大多數(shù)國家來說，國際貿(mào)易或?qū)ν赓Q(mào)易是它們國際活動中最重要的部分。For most countries, international trade or foreign trade is the most important part of their international activities.3.在復雜的經(jīng)濟世界中，沒有一個國家可以完全自給自足In the complex economic world, no country can be completely

14、self-sufficient.4. 國際貿(mào)易是一個國家生產(chǎn)的商品和勞務與另一個國家生產(chǎn)的商品和勞務的交換。除了有形貿(mào)易，即商品和貨物的進出口以外，還有無形貿(mào)易，這是指國家之間勞務的交換。希臘和挪威等國擁有龐大的海運船隊，提供運輸服務，這是無形貿(mào)易的一種。無形貿(mào)易對一些國家來說，就像原材料和商品出口對其它一些國家那樣重要。在這兩種情況下，這些國家都能賺到錢去購買其所需要的商品。International trade is the exchange of goods and services produced in one country for goods and services produ

15、ced in another country. In addition to visible trade, which involves the import and export merchandise and the goods, there is also invisible trade, which involves the exchange of services between nations. Nations such as Greece and Norway have large maritime/navigation fleets and provide transporta

16、tion service. This is a kind of invisible trade. Invisible trade can be as important to some nations as the export of raw materials or commodities is to others. In both cases, the nations earn the money to buy necessities.5. 世界上沒有任何一個國家能生產(chǎn)它所需的所有產(chǎn)品，所以各國參與國際分工，進行有效的生產(chǎn)和再生產(chǎn)。有時一個國家能夠以易貨方式從國外購買產(chǎn)品和服務，易貨是指以

17、一種貨物交換另一種貨物，而不是用錢交易。易貨貿(mào)易本身并不足以滿足一個國家的進口需要。但作為一種貿(mào)易方式，它對于外匯短缺、外資流入遠遠無法滿足外貿(mào)需求的發(fā)展中國家來說具有一定的吸引力There is no country in the world that can produce all the products it needs. Thus countries join in international division of labor for effective production and reproduction. Sometimes a country can buy goods a

18、nd services from abroad on a barter basis. Barter means doing business by exchanging goods of one sort for goods of another sort without using money. Barter trade itself is not enough to meat a countrys import needs. But as a form of international trade, it is still attractive in developing countrie

19、s where foreign exchange is in short supply and inflow of foreign funds is far from sufficient to meet their obligations in external trade.Exercise KeyI) Comprehension1.International trade is business whose activities involve the crossing of national borders. It includes not only international trade

20、 and foreign manufacturing but also encompasses the growing services industry in areas such as transportation, tourism, banking, advertising, construction, retailing, wholesaling, and mass communications. It includes all business transactions that involve two or more countries. Such business relatio

21、nship may be private or governmental.2. Sales expansion, resource acquisition and diversification，sales and supplies，minimum of the competitive risk.3. To seek out foreign markets and procurement.4. There are four major forms which are the following:Merchandise exports and Imports, Service Exports and Imports, Investment and Multinational Enterprise.5. Yes, There are great differences between them.1) Direct investment takes place when control follows the investment. It usually means high commitment of capital, p