Passage 1 The China boom is by now a well-documented phenomenon. Who hasn't 1 the Middle Kingdom's astounding economic growth 8 percent annually, its mesmerizing 2 market 1.2 billion people, the investment ardor of foreign suitors $20 billion in foreign direct investment last year 3 ? China is an economic juggernaut. 4 Nicholas Lardy of the 13rookings Institution, a Washington D. C. -based think tank, "No country 5 its foreign trade as fast as China over the last 20 years. Japan doubled its foreign trade over 6 period; 7 foreign trade as quintupled. They've become the preeminent producer of labor-intensive manufacturing goods in the world." But there's been 8 from the dazzling China growth story—namely, the Chinese multinational. No major Chinese companies have 9 established themselves, or their brands, 10 the global stage. But as Haier shows, that is starting to change. 11 100 years of poverty and chaos, of being overshadowed by foreign countries and multinationals, Chinese industrial companies are starting to 12 on the world. A new generation of large and credible firms 13 in China in the electronics, appliance and even high-tech sectors. Some have reached critical mass on the mainland and 14 new outlets for their production—through exports and by building Chinese factories abroad, chiefly in Southeast Asia. One example: China's investment in Malaysia 15 from ＄8 million in 2000 to ＄766 million in the first half of this year. 16 China's export prowess, it will be years 17 Chinese firms achieve the managerial and operational expertise of Western and Japanese multinationals. For one thing, many of its best companies are still at least partially state-owned. 18 , China has a shortage of managerial talent and little notion of marketing and brand-building. Its companies are also 19 by the country's long tradition of central planning, inefficient use of capital and antiquated distribution system, 20 makes building national companies a challenge.
which makes building national companies a challenge(这使得建立国营公司成为一种挑战)；此处为非限定的语从句，只能选择B．which，其他选项均不符合英语语法。
Passage 2 The recent boom in technological advances, formation of new businesses, and personal 1 is the third, and most dramatic, such wave 2 by the computer industry in the last twenty-five years. The first wave 3 tangible products—"hardware," as 4 the computer programs that 5 software. In the 1960s and 1970s companies in the Santa Clara Valley, between San Jose and San Francisco, produced silicon memory chips for computers— 6 the name Silicon Valley. Then they produced silicon logic chips, 7 direct a computer's operation. Then many produced computers 8 . The great 9 from the hardware era include those of the Hewlett and Packard families, of Hewlett-Packard, which started 10 money in the presilicon era, with scientific instruments. The Packard Foundation, with 11 of ＄10 billion, recently 12 the Ford Foundation as the nation's third-largest private foundation The 13 hardware company of the 1990s is Intel, 14 Pentium and other processing chips are used in most personal computers 15 the Macintosh. The second 16 of wealth creation involved software—"application" software that people use for work or recreation, like word-processing programs or computer games, and "systems" software used to 17 businesses or, very often, computer networks 18 . The difference between software and hardware provides a classic illustration of 19 economists mean by "increasing returns to scale." Because the cost of producing additional units of software—the "marginal cost"- is extremely low, 20 you become the market leader in a field, your profits grow astronomically.
1.
A.fortune
B.fortunes
C.property
D.estate
A B C D
B
personal fortunes(个人财富)，一般用复数；其余答案C．property(财产)；D．estate(房地产)，与文章的内容不相符。
2.
A.produced
B.generated
C.put
D.made
A B C D
B
wave generated by the computer industry{电脑业产生的浪潮)，其他答案均不能与wave搭配。
a classic illustration of what economists mean(经济学家所意味的一种经典的例证)，此处需注意what从句的用法。
20.
A.once
B.at once
C.soon
D.immediately
A B C D
A
once you become the market leader in a field(一旦你成为某一领域的市场的领头人)。once(一旦，一经)。
Passage 3 One of the many oddities of migration policy is that immigrants coming in to work permanently are usually a minority of those who arrive legally. Most 1 countries admit migrants mainly on grounds that have 2 to do with work. They also admit two large groups on grounds that have nothing to do with their skills or education, 3 these characteristics may determine 4 rapidly they integrate. Almost everywhere, the biggest group 5 relatives of those who have already 6 . In the United States they 7 three-quarters of all legal 8 migrants. America even gives a few visas to 9 adult siblings. In parts of Burope, family reunification has become family formation, 10 sometimes delays integration: for instance, it allows third-generation Pakistanis to seek spouses 11 their cousins back in rural areas. The policy also 12 the characteristics of earlier arrivals. 13 migrants are likely to have less educated relatives than are skilled migrants. In Europe, and especially northern Europe, the other main route of legal entry is to claim asylum. The 14 of claims has fallen by half since the early 1990s, partly because peace 15 to former Yugoslavia, and partly because of tougher rules, 16 still seems to be higher than in the United States. America 17 the numbers sharply after the first attack on the World Trade Centre in 1993, mainly by refusing 18 asylum-seekers to work or draw any welfare benefits for the first six months of their stay, and by 19 the claims process. Many European countries 20 that way.
and sometimes delays integration(并且有时候会延迟融合)；从上下文可看出此处是一个递进关系，因此选A，其他选项B．but，C．yet表示转折，D．still表示让步之后的“仍旧”。
11.
A.from
B.among
C.among from
D.from among
A B C D
D
from among their cousins(从他们的表亲中)；注意英语中介词from与其他介词的连用，例如：The men were watching us from above the trees(那些人从树上往下注视我们)。He looked from behind his spectacles(他透过眼镜看)。
12.
A.enforces
B.reinforces
C.strengthens
D.straightens
A B C D
B
reinforces the characteristics(作图)(加强了这些特性)；其余选项A．enforces强迫，C．strengthens加强力量，D．straightens伸直，都存在语义问题。
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