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Unit 10 Financial World 金融世界 Comprehension questions: 1. What is making banks change? 2. In what way banks and other financial institutions are interwoven? 3. Are commercial banks already allowed to get into the securities business? 4. Is it possible to separate the commercial banking and investment banking? Part A Exercises 1) Directions: Listen to the news carefully and match the items in column A with the items in column B according to what you’ve heard. Column A Column B 1. World Bank a. make unwanted calls and mails 2. Reminbi b. not high 3. Gilt market c. promise to make loans 4. American real bond yield d. not pegged 5. Direct marketing companies e. soar 2) Directions: Listen to the news carefully and complete the following passage by filling in the words you hear from the tape. (1) The World Bank has committed to lend __________ $3bn a year for the next three years to improve the infrastructure of its rural areas, __________ to most of the country’s poor. (2) From now on the renminbi, or yuan’s, exchange rate will be __________ according to a __________ of currencies. (3) The gilt market __________ higher for most of the week even though hopes of a second interest rate __________ in the UK this year were all but abandoned. (4) Yields are __________ too low for America, but too high for Germany and Japan, causing the growth __________ to persist. (5) __________ about you are bought and sold by companies you have never heard of, in a trade __________ an estimated £2 billion i