专四专八考试

【单选题】If you want to see what it takes to set up an entirely new financial center (and what is best avoided), head forDubai. This flay, sun-baked patch of sand in the midst of a war-tom and isolated region started with few advantages other than a long tradition as a hub for MiddleEastern trade mutes.
But over the past few yearsDubai has built a new financial center from nothing.Dozens of the world’s leading financial institutions have opened offices in its new financial district, hoping to grab a portion of the $2 trillion-plus investment from the Gulf. Some say there is more hype than business, but few big firms m willing to risk missing out.
Dealmaking inDubai centers around The Gate, a cube-shaped structure at the heart of theDubai International FinancialCentreDIFC、.A、brainchild of the rulingAl-Maktoum family, theDIFC、is a tax-free zone for wholesale financial services. Firms licensed for it are not approved to serve the local financial market. TheDIFC、aims to become the leading wholesale financial centre in the Gulf, offering one-stop shopping for everything from stocks to sukuk (Islamic) bonds, investment banking and insurance. InAugust theDubai bourse made a bid for a big stake in OMX, a Scandinavian exchange operator that also sells trading technology to many of the world’s exchanges.
Dubai may have generated the biggest splash thus far, but much of the Gulf region has seen a surge of activity in recent years. Record flows of petrodollars have enabled governments in the area to spend billions on infrastructure projects and development. Personal wealth too is growing rapidly.According toCapgemini and Merrill Lynch, the number of people in the MiddleEast with more than $1m in financial assets rose by nearly 12% last year, to 300,000.
Qatar,Bahrain andAbuDhabi also have big aspirations for their financial hubs, though they keep a lower profile thanDubai. They, too, are trying to learn from more established financial centers what they must do to achieve the magic mix of transparent regulation, good infrastructure and low or no taxes. Some of the fiercest competition among them is for talent. MostEnglish-speaking professionals have to be importeD、
Each of the Gulf hubs, though, has its own distinct characteristics.AbuDhabi is trying to present itself as a more cultured, less congested alternative to neighboringDubai, and is building a huge Guggenheim museum.Energy-rich Qatar is an important hub for infrastructure finance, with ambitions to develop further business in wealth management, private equity, retail banking and insurance.Bahrain is well established in Islamic banking, but it is facing new competition from London, Kuala Lumpur and other hubs that have caught on to Islamic finance. "If you’ve got one siring to your bow and suddenly someone takes it away, you’re in trouble," says Stuart Pearce of the Qatar FinancialCentre aboutBahrain
SaudiArabia, by far the biggest economy in the Gulf, is creating a cluster of its own economic zones, including KingAbdullahCity, which is aimed at foreign investors seeking a presence in the country. Trying to cut down on the number of "suitcase bankers" who fly in from nearby centers rather than live in the country, the Saudis now require firms working with them to have local business licenses. Yet the bulk of the region’s money is still flowing to established financial centers inEurope,America and other parts ofAsiA、
The financial hubs there offer lessons for aspiring centers in other parts of the developing worlD、Building the confidence of financial markets takes more than new skyscrapers, tax breaks and incentives. TheDIFC, for instance, initially suffered from suspicions of government meddling and from a high turnover among senior executives. Trading on its stock market remains thin, and the government seems unwilling to float its most successful companies there. Making the desert bloom was never easy.<
网考网参考答案：D
网考网解析：
[定位] 根据题干直接定位到最后一段。 [解析] 从最后一段以及前文的描述不难总结出，建立金融市场的信心仅仅靠建几座摩天大楼、减税及政策性激励是不够的，它需要多方面的努力，应选D。 [点睛] 推断题。原文最后一句是概括性表述，因此过于细节性描述的选项可先排除，故可先排除，故可选排除A；该段第2句表明B不够全面；C无原文依据。 document.getElementById("warp").style.display="none"; document.getElementById("content").style.display="block"; 查看试题解析出处>>