商务英语考试

【单选题】LatinAmerican stocks fell for a second day on Friday in reaction toAsia’s currency and stock market crash. There were fears that theAsian crisis could influence investors in other emerging markets.
Argentina and Mexico (19) the highest falls, with their indexes down by 4% by the (20) of trading on Friday.Brazil’sBovespa index, which on the same day (21) by far the steepest plunge in theAmericas, was down 2.9 %.
"What’s happening in Hong Kong has been a terrible (22) to the system," said Richard Watt, who (23) 3.5 billion dollars in emerging market investments forBE
A、Associates in New York. Investors inBrazil were concerned that its economic problems were dangerously (24) to those that have caused the currency and market plunges in Thailand, Malaysia and otherAsian (25) .
"Brazil’s economy is far from (26) ," said lanCampbell, chief economist atABNAmroBank NVAmsterdam. "Its current account and fiscal (27) are large and its currency is overvalueD、" "There’s no (28) in trying to catch a falling knife," said Jane Heap, LatinAmerican stock strategist atDeutsche Morgan Grenfell. "There’s no room for (29) inBrazil until the US andAsia get back to normal."
There were also concerns that foreign investors who specialize in emerging markets could be (30) to sell their shares in LatinAmerica to (31) theirAsian losses.
"There’s a lot of nervousness about whether investors will (32) their money out of stocks, because of instability inAsi
A、" Said German Guerrero, chief trader at theChilean brokerageCelfin S
A、
Chilean markets were down only (33) in afternoon trading. TheChile selective stock index fell 0.72 % and theChile general stock index was down 0.64 %.

A、identical
B．similar
C．equal
D．related

网考网参考答案：B
网考网解析：
从句中可以看出，巴西的投资者担心其遇到的经济问题与导致泰国、马来西亚货币贬值和市场跳水的问题……。空白处要选择的词要构成短语be…to，首先让我们区别这四个短语： be identical to意思是“同样的、一致的”，这两个经济问题虽然性质可能相同，但不大可能一模一样。be equal to意思是“等于、等同于”，显然这个词不恰当。be related to意思是“与……相关”，亚洲的危机已经影响到拉美，不再是投资者们的担心了。be similar to意思是“与……相似”，在危机刚刚波及拉美时，人们担心会像亚洲一样。所以B是比较合理的选项。 document.getElementById("warp").style.display="none"; document.getElementById("content").style.display="block"; 查看试题解析出处>>