[研究生入学考试题库]考研英语模拟题模拟114.docxVIP

[研究生入学考试题库]考研英语模拟题模拟114 Section Ⅰ Use of EnglishDirections: Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D.  The China boom is by now a well-documented phenomenon. Who hasnt 1 the Middle Kingdoms astounding economic growth (8 percent annually), its mesmerizing 2 market (1.2 billion people), the investment ardor of foreign suitors ($40 billion in foreign direct investment last year 3 ? China is an economic juggernaut. 4 Nicholas Lardy of the Brookings Institution, a Washington D.C.-based think tank, No country has 5 its foreign trade as fast as China over the last 20 years. Japan 6 its foreign trade over a 20-year period; Chinas foreign trade as quintupled. Theyve become the pre-eminent producer of labor-intensive 7 goods in the world. But theres 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 Haler 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 has 13 in China in the electronics, appliance and even high-tech sectors. Some have reached critical mass on the mainland and are now 14 new outlets for their production—through exports and by building Chinese factories abroad, chiefly in Southeast Asia. One example: Chinas investment in Malaysia 15 from $8 million in 2000 to $766 million in the first half of this year. 16 Chinas 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 , Ch