金融英语阅读 期末考试试卷 共 7 页 对外经济贸易大学对外经济贸易大学 2000-2001 学年第一学期学年第一学期 ENG353金融英语阅读期末考试试卷（金融英语阅读期末考试试卷（A） 本试卷适用于：全校三年级各专业的学生（99 级） 学号： 姓名： 班级： 成绩： 1. Translate the following financial terms.(20%) 1) IDA 2) SDR 3) IFC 4) OECD 5) Clipping 6) Laissez-faire 7) Debasement 8) MIGA 9) Convertible paper money 10) in arrears 1) 扶贫 (工作) 2) “大一统“银行系统 3) 垂直管理体制 4) 霸权 5) 金本位制崩溃 6) 互惠主义 7) 银根紧缩 8) 差别价格 9) 收益差 10) 空头交易 2. Paraphrase the underlined words in English according to the text. (15%) 1 金融英语阅读 期末考试试卷 共 7 页 1) The IFCs policy is to favor joint ventures that have some local capital committed at the outset, or at least the probability of local capital involvement in the foreseeable future. 2) To date, there have been no defaults on loans made by the World Bank. 3) Rugged individualistic liberalism based upon Anglo-Saxon roots knew, rendering their liberal ideology rigid and dogmatic. 4) The value of a commodity or token used as money also fluctuates, and when there is inflation, its value persistently falls. 5) They put their reputation on the line when they endorse a companys report. 3Please translate the following sentences into either Chinese or English (20%) 1) The “whole earth“ approach to political economy-a world view-remains the exception and not the rule. Economists note that their discipline was traditionally called “political economy,“ the queen of the social sciences dating back at least to Adam Smiths Wealth of Nations, published in 1776. 2) Barter can take place only when there is a double coincidence of wants. A double coincidence of wants is a situation that occurs when person A wants to buy what person B is selling and person B wants to buy what person A is selling. 3) 政府对国际贸易中的小汽车和多数其它商品进行调控。他们对进口征收税款， 称为关税，同时建立配额制，以对可能进口的数量进行限制。 4) 货币是为人们广为接受的，作为商品和服务支付手段的任何商品或辅币，货 币有四种职能：交换媒介、价值尺度、储藏手段、延期支付手段。 4Please fill in the following blanks with ONE appropriate word in each blank. (15%) The balance of _ is a statistical record of _ the economic transactions between residents of the reporting country _ residents of the rest of the world during a given _ period. The usual reporting period _ all the statistics included in the account is one year._, some of the statistics that make _ the balance of 2 金融英语阅读 期末考试试卷 共 7 页 payments are published _ a more regular monthly and quarterly basis. Without _ the balance of payments is one of the _ important statistical statements for any country. It reveals how many goods and _ the country has been exporting and _ and whether the country has been _ from or lending money to the rest of the world. _ addition, whether or _ the central monetary authority (usually the central bank) has added to or reduced its reserves of foreign currency is reported in the statistics. 5. Please read the following 2 articles and briefly answer the questions given. (20%). Article 1 Compared with the central banks of some other countries, the Federal Reserve System of the United States which has a history of only about 80 years, is relatively young. The “Federal Reserve Act” passed by American Congress in 1913 aims at providing a relatively secure and flexible banking and monetary system. Today, the Federal Reserve System is an institution with regional dispersion. In terms of ownership and control, there are representatives of government interests as well as private interests. This is a recognition of a long-standing conviction: the participation of private sector is essential to the creditability and management of the Central Bank. Currently, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System consists of seven members, appointed by the President, subject to Senate approval. Each member must come from a different geographical region. In order to maintain a balance between central supervision in Washington and participation of various regions as well as private sector, Congress established 12 regional Federal Reserve Bank, each providing service for a geographical region. As an independent institutional entity, the regional bank, with a board of directors and member banks as shareholders, is an important aspect of the Federal Reserve Act. There are three basic functions for the central bank: Firstly, the responsibility of the central bank is the formulation and execution of monetary policy, with the twin goals of promotion of price stability at home and stimulation of genuine growth of economy. These goals are still be the core of central bank policies. Another important responsibility of a central bank is the supervision or participation in supervision, to a certain degree, of the membe