商务英语阅读课后习题答案(王艳).doc

Chapter 1 Government and Trade Exercise 1 1) Trade will top the EU’s agenda at this summit. 2) Hillary Clinton has promised to review trade agreements every five years and amend them where necessary. 3) The agreement is about putting a textile-import monitoring system in place for 2008 to replace the annual cap imposed on imported Chinese textiles since 2005. 4) China Investment Corp (CIC) is a sovereign wealth fund. 5) They are not sure about how the fund will operate.... 6) The European Council, the European Commission, the European Parliament 7) “institutional-complexity issue” refers to the following problems: a. the member states do not always agree; b. there is also policy disagreement among the EU’s various institutions; c. even within one institution, its various departments may also find themselves in disputes EU’s self-imposed obstacles: a. the institutional complexity b. the absence of a central authority c. fickle priorities 8) “fickle priorities” means one is changeable about what is the most important or what he or she should focus on. 9) “hackles” means anger. A meeting in September between Angela Merkel, chancellor of Germany, and Tibet’s exiled leader, the Dalai Lama, brought about anger in China. Exercise 2 F, 2) T, 3) T, 4) F, 5) F, 6) F, 7) F, 8) F, 9) F, 10) F 11) T 12) T Exercise 3 双边关系；欧元区；主权财富基金；贸易协定；贸易法案；惹怒；经济关系；汇率；货币政策；升温 current-account surplus; election campaign; member states; aside from; export subsidies; hang over; consumer perception; on behalf of; intellectual property; foreign takeover Exercise 4 Interest and attention on the new EU-Russia trade agreement gained momentum after EU leaders’ travel to Russia in May in an attempt to resolve their differences across a range of issues. He sat down and fired off a furious letter to the Indian government, describing a radical change of the US policy towards textile imports. The Republican leadership in the U.S. government will soon lift its cap on cigar imports f