Statements:

1.When Machael Armstrong replaced Bob Allen in November 1997, he was considered as an expert in the telecoms business.(    )

2.Though AT&T's long - distance operation was being reduced, its international alliances were doing extremely well.(    )

3.Mr.Armstrong was expected to make more employees redundant soon after he became the new boss of AT&T.(    )

4.Undr Machale Armstrong,AT&T threw its weight around by buying TeleCommunications Inc, and by forming a joint - venture with Time Warner.(    )

5.Mr. Armstrong was quite irresolute in dealing with his critics.(    )

Ⅵ.Translate the following passage into Chinese:(11%)

   The relationship between trade and the environment is the thorniest of all.The difficulty facing rule- makers is this:the benefits of trade depend on the assumption that relative prices in different countries reflect differences in factors of production,  productivity and so on. However, if one firm is polluting freely while another bears the cost of cleaning up its pollution, then relative costs will fail to reflect these differences, and trade that looks desirable may not be.

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课程代码：00096

Ⅰ.英译中(每题1分，共10分)
1.萧条
2.贸易顺差
3.通货紧缩
4.易货贸易
5.期货市场
6.经常项目
7.预算赤字
8.无形贸易
9.补偿贸易
10.贬值

Ⅱ.中译英(每题1分，共10分)
1.market forces
2.monetary policy
3.most favored-nation treatment/status
4.World Trade Organization
5.personal income tax/individual income tax
6.commoditis/goods market
7.service trade /trade in service
8.primary goods
9.International Monetary Fund
10.per capita/head GDP(gross domestic products)

Ⅲ.选择题(每题2分，共30分)
1.B    2.A    3.B    4.A     5.B     6.C    7.B    8.D
9.A    10.B   11.D   12.C    13.C    14.B   15.A

Ⅳ.阅读答问(每题4分，共24分)
   1.(1)Americans hope that Japan will be forced to remove its trade barriers so as to import more goods from America.

     (2)Their hopes can not come true. Because it is difficult to change the Japanese government's trade policy. Furthermore, it is even more difficult to ask Japanese to take in more imports,for it is their ingrained traditional ideas that reject imports.

      (3)Here ‘move’ means to change the position of something.

    2.(1)The Clinton administration has made up its mind to force its trading partners to offer concessions so that it can resume negotiations with them on several fronts.

       (2)They are prepared to see U.S. trade relations with its trading partners going from bad to worse.

       (3)Mr. Clinton and his advisers are adopting the same tough trade policies as the Bush administration.