西方报刊经贸文章选读练习册

Part I
Exercise & Supplementary Reading
Lesson l Article for Exercise：
China Leaps towards Top Ten Traders
Supplementary Reading：
1） Chinas Import Growth Rate Exceeds
Export Growth in 1998
2） Greater China on the March
Lesson 2 Article for Exercise：
1） China Tries Guiding Foreign
Investment
2） Era of the Multinationals
Supplementary Reading：
l ） Chinas Foreign lnvestors Stake
Claim to the Interior
2） FDI Flood Meets Barriers
3） Investors Must Be Prepared for
the Long Haul
4） Globalizations Depredations Are Real
and Brutal
Lesson 3 Article for Exercise：
The Outlook
Supplementary Reading：
1） Market Plays Important Role
2） More Foreign Firms Do Well in China--but
Its Tough
3） Bullish Firms Clamor for
China Market
Lesson 4 Article for Exercise：
For World Economy， the Worst of Recession
has Passed
Lesson 5 Article for Exercise：
U. S. as Self--appointed Global
Hall Monitor
Supplementary Reading：
l ） Clinton Reaffirms Asia--Pacific Role
2） Why Im Going to Beijing
3） Uneasy Together
4） Clinton Outlines 97 Trade Policy
5） A Series on International Response to the US
Helms--Burton Act
a. EU Unites to Retaliate against
Helms -- Burton
b. U. S. Seeks to Calm Angry EU
c. Ibero -- American Summit Slams U. S.
Law on Cuba
d. Clinton Delays Enforcing Anti--Cuba
Business Law
Lesson 6 Article for Exercise：
East Europeans Fear Protectionism
Supplementary Reading：
l） After 40 Years， EU Arrives at
Crossroads
2） EUs lnternal Market Producing
Jobs
3） Europe Rising
4） Obstacles Slow Europes Drive
to Unity
5） Common Currency May Yet Divide
Europe
6） Why Non--Europeans Should Care
about EMU
7） The Other Foot， despite Warmer Ties，
the EU Targets Asian Exports
Lesson 7 Article for Exercise：
Surplus ls a Time Bomb， EC
Warns Japan
Lesson 8 Article for Exercise：
l） Taming the Chaebols
2） Asia， You Cost Too Much
Supplementary Rcading：
l） The Next Step
2） What Asia -- and the
World -- Must Do
3） Less Cash Flow Currency Controls
Gain a Hearing as Crisis in Asia
Takes Its Toll
4） Water， Water Everywhere But Less
to Drink in Asia
5） Asia Chokes on Growing Pollution
Lcsson 9 Article for Exercise：
l） Smooth Ride on the Road to Success
2） Economy： the Numbers Add Up
to Prosperity
Supplementary Reading：
Why Africa Can Thrive like Asia
Lesson l0 Article for Exercise：
Greater Wealth of Nations
Supplementary Reading：
l） Fifty Years On
2） Success Brings New Challenges
3） All Free Traders Now?
Lesson 11 Article for Exercise：
Lets Make a Trade
Lesson 12 Article for Exercise：
Syrup--makers Bold Strategy
Supplementary Reading：
l） Pepsi and Coke Go to War Again
2） How the U. S. Helped Big Tobacco Crack
Asias Market
Lesson 13 Article for Exercise：
A HeaIthy Appetite for World Market
Lesson 14 Article for Exercise：
Review of Markets --Corn Futures
Supplementary Reading：
Commodities Market， despite Gains， Will
Be Remembered for Its Losses
Lesson 15 Article for Exercise：
1） Grains， Soybeans .Suffer Setbacks
2） Oil Companies Act to Save Refining
Margins
Lesson 16 Supplementary Reading：
l） When Cool Goes Cold
2） The Power Brands
3） China Targets World Markets
4） Setting a Course for the New
Global Landscape
for 17 Supplementary Reading：
1） Car Producers Race for Global
Presence ?
2） Glut of Metal
3） Electric Vehicles： Theyre
Practical Now
4） Automobile Industry Moves Ahead -- over
a Bumpy Road
Lesson 18 Supplementary Reading：
1） From Silk to Synthetics， a Question
of Quotas
2） Trade Quotas Builds New
Chinese Wall
Lesson 19 Supplementary Reading：
l） What Bill Gates Really Wants
2） Making a Difference ls the Dream，
Not Getting Rich
3） Mr. Intel Goes to China
4） A Legend in the Making
5） Foreign Telecom Companies Rush to
Help Spend $40 Billion
Lesson 20 Supplementary Reading：
l ） For Oil lndustry， That Next Elephant
Proves Elusive
2） China in Petroleum Politics
3） The New Economics of Oil
Part II
Brief Answers or Clues to
Questions on Content and Language
Points & Key to Exercises
Lesson 1
Lesson 2
Lesson 3
Appendix to lesson l-- 3
Lesson 4
Lesson 5
Lesson 6
Lesson 7
Appendix to lesson 7
Lesson 8
Lesson 9
Lesson l0
Lesson ll
Lesson l2
Lesson l3
Lesson l4
Lesson 15
Lesson l6
Lesson 17
Lesson l8
Lesson 19
Lesson 20