| 在职申硕英语考试易错题（2017/9/21） |
| 第1题：Terror works like a musical composition， so many instruments， all in tune， playing perfectly together to create their desired effect. It was ， of course， a perfect day 70 deg and flawless skies， perfect for a nervous pilot who has stolen a huge jet and intends to turn it into a missile. It was a Boeing 767 from Boston， American Airlines Flight 11 bound for Los Angeles with 81 passengers， that first got the attention of air traffic controllers. The plane took off at 7：59 a.m. and headed west， over the Adirondacks， before taking a sudden turn south and diving down toward the heart of New York City. Meanwhile American Flight 757 had left Dulles； United Flight 175 left Boston at 7：58， and United Flight 93 left Newark three minutes later， bound for San Francisco. All climbed into beautiful clear skies， all four planes on transcontinental flights， plump with fuel， ripe to explode. "They couldn‘t carry anything-other than an atom bomb-that could be as bad as what they were flying，" observed a veteran investigator. |
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| 第2题：The world‘s third largest producer of electronics China is already the world‘s third largest producer of electronics， and becoming a player in the global appliance market. Twenty years ago， U.S.， European and Japanese companies started moving into China to supply the local market with household goods. Now those same companies are getting whipped by Chinese competitors. Over te past six years， the market share of foreign TV makers in China has dropped from 70 percent to less than 20 percent. Matsushita opened the first microwave-oven plant in China in 1995. Two years later the Chinese company Galanz started making microwaves and selling them for half Matsushita‘s price. Chinese companies now make more than 43 million TVs yearly. Konka， one of China‘s largest TV makers， sells its branded TVs in the United States， and has set up factories in Mexico to service the American market； While TCL， another major TV maker， exported 11 million units from its Chinese factories last year. It has more Southeast Asian factories than any other Chinese company. |
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| 第3题：An actual recession in the euro area earlier this year， when America first sneezed， the European Central Bank （along with most private-sector economists） argued that the euro area was insulated from America‘s slowdown and had little to worry about. This seems to have been wrong. In Germany there are fears about recession as business investment and retail sales tumble. Recent figures confirmed that Germany‘s GDP stagnated in the second quarter. Italy‘s GDP fell in the second quarter， and although growth has held up better in France and Spain， the growth in the euro area as a whole was close to zero in the quarter. Nobody is forecasting an actual recession in the euro area this year， but it is no longer expected to provide an engine for world growth. As for Japan， it is probably already in recession. Japan‘s GDP grew slightly in the first quarter. Persistent deflation continues to be a severe problem. A revised measure of Japan‘s consumer-price index， to be published soon， is likely to show that deflation is worse than had been thought. |
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| 第4题：In his latest book， Lee Kuan Yew fearlessly expresses his ideas， seeking "to be correct， not politically correct." Lee also recounts his impressions of nations， leaders and historic events. In acerbic Lee Kuan Yew style， he describes Margaret Thatcher， Ronald Reagan， China‘s poetry-quoting Jiang Zemin， the late Mao Zedong， the incorruptible Zhu Rongji to the bold reformer Deng Xiaoping （whom he remembers as "a five-footer but a giant among men"）。 Among the most interesting parts of the book were Lee Kuan Yew‘s references to the Philippines and his sadness that our talented nation could suffer so many socio-political and economic troubles. An anecdote recounts the 1985 official trip to Washington， DC where State Secretary George Shultz asked Lee to convince President Ronald Reagan that his old friend Ferdinand Marcos was then the problem of the Philippines， not the solution. During the uprising the following year 1986， when the U.S. government asked Lee‘s opinions， he said America should not accept a fraudulent election， and put pressure on Marcos to call new elections. |
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| 第5题：The China boom is by now a well-documented phenomenon. Who hasn‘t heard of the Middle Kingdom‘s astounding economic growth （8 percent annually）， its mesmerizing consumer market （1.2 billion people）， the investment ardor of foreign suitors （$40 billion in foreign direct investment last year alone）？ China is an economic juggernaut. According to Nicholas Lardy of the Brookings Institution， a Washington D.C.-based think tank， "No country has expanded its foreign trade as fast as China over the last 20 years. Japan doubled its foreign trade over a 20-year period； China‘s foreign trade as quintupled. They‘ve become the pre-eminent producer of labor-intensive manufacturing goods in the world." But there‘s been something missing from the dazzling China growth story-namely， the Chinese multinational. No major Chinese companies have yet established themselves， or their brands， on the global stage. But as Haier shows， that is starting to change. After 100 years of poverty and chaos， of being overshadowed by foreign countries and multinationals， Chinese industrial companies are starting to make a mark on the world. |
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