历年建行总行笔试试题和答案
The money tourists spend helps decrease our chronic trade deficit. So do exports, which thanks in part to the weak dollar, soared 11 percent between May 2006 and May 2007. For first five months of 2007, the trade deficit actually fell 7 percent from 2006.
If you own shares in large American corporations, you’re a winner in the weak-dollar gamble. Last week Coca-Cola’s stick bubbled to a five-year high after it reported a fantastic quarter. Foreign sales accounted for 65 percent of Coke’s beverage business. Other American companies profiting from this trend include McDonald’s and IBM.
American tourists, however, shouldn’t expect any relief soon. The dollar lost strength the way many marriages break up- slowly, and then all at once. And currencies don’t turn on a dime. So if you want to avoid the pain inflicted by the increasingly pathetic dollar, cancel that summer vacation to England and look to New England. There, the dollar is still treated with a little respect.
52. Why do Americans feel humiliated?
A) Their economy is plunging B) They can’t afford trips to Europe
C) Their currency has slumped D) They have lost half of their assets.
53.How does the current dollar affect the life of ordinary Americans?
They have to cancel their vacations in New England.
They find it unaffordable to dine in mom-and-pop restaurants.
They have to spend more money when buying imported goods.
They might lose their jobs due to potential economic problems.
54 How do many Europeans feel about the U.S with the devalued dollar?
They feel contemptuous of it
They are sympathetic with it.
They regard it as a superpower on the decline.
They think of it as a good tourist destination.
55 what is the author’s advice to Americans?
They treat the dollar with a little respect www.qz26.com
They try to win in the weak-dollar gamble
They vacation at home rather than abroad
They treasure their marriages all the more.
56 What does the author imply by saying “currencies don’t turn on a dime” (Line 2,Para 7)?
The dollar’s value will not increase in the short term.
The value of a dollar will not be reduced to a dime
The dollar’s value will drop, but within a small margin.
Few Americans will change dollars into other currencies.
The answers as follow:
52,B, Their currency has slumped.
53,C, They have to spend more money when buying imported goods.
54,D, They think of it as a good tourist destination.
55,C, They vacation at home rather than abroad.
56,A, The dollar's value will not increase in the short term.
Text 3
It used to be so straightforward. A team of researchers working together in the laboratory would submit the results of their research to a journal. A journal editor would then remove the authors’ names and affiliations from the paper and send it to their peers for review. Depending on the comments received, the editor would accept the paper for publication or decline it. Copyright rested with the journal publisher, and researchers seeking knowledge of the results would have to subscribe to the journal.
No longer. The Internet – and pressure from funding agencies, who are questioning why commercial publishers are making money from government-funded research by restricting access to it – is making access to scientific results a reality. The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)was just issued a report describing the far-reaching consequences of this. The report, by John Houghton of Victoria University in Australia and Graham Vickery of the OECD, makes heavy reading for publishers who have, so far, made handsome profits. But it goes further than that. It signals a change in what has, until now, been a key element of scientific endeavor.