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America’s Federal Reserve cut interest rates by another quarter-point, to 3.75%. Wall Street, which had been{{U}} (1) {{/U}}for a sixth half-point cut, was disappointeD、TheDow fell by 2%{{U}} (2) {{/U}}the week. The past week’s economic statistics gave mixed signals.Exports dropped by 2% in both March andApril, largely{{U}} (3) {{/U}}a decline in high-tech investment{{U}} (4) {{/U}}; the merchandise-trade{{U}} (5) {{/U}}widened to $458 billion in the 12 months{{U}} (6) {{/U}}April.{{U}} (7) {{/U}}, theConferenceBoard’s index of consumer confidence was higher than{{U}} (8) {{/U}}in June.
Concerns{{U}} (9) {{/U}}inflation in the euro area{{U}} (10) {{/U}}. Preliminary data{{U}} (11) {{/U}}that German consumer- price inflation fell to 3.1% in the year to June, from 3.5% in May; wage growth{{U}} (12) {{/U}}to 1.4% inApril, a real pay cut of 1.5%. Some economists fear that Germany is on the{{U}} (13) {{/U}}of recession. The IFO index of business confidence dropped more{{U}} (14) {{/U}}than expected in May, and the institute has cut its forecast of GDP{{U}} (15) {{/U}}this year to only 1.2%, well{{U}} (16) {{/U}}the German government’s forecast of 2%.
The euro area’s current-account deficit narrowed to $30 billion in the 12 months toApril.Britain’s deficit in the first quarter was its smallest{{U}} (17) {{/U}}1998,{{U}} (18) {{/U}}record investment income.
There was more bad news from Japan,{{U}} (19) {{/U}}retail sales in large stores fell by 3.2% in May, the 37th consecutive monthly fall. The yen fell{{U}} (20) {{/U}}the dollar, touching almost Yen 125 on one point.
A．in
B．above
C．during
D．about

网考网参考答案：C
网考网解析：
道琼斯指数一周内跌了2％。本题测试点为介词用法。A、B、c都有“在……之内”的意思，但这里更强调“一整周”，所以C更恰当。 document.getElementById("warp").style.display="none"; document.getElementById("content").style.display="block"; 查看试题解析出处>>

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