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1、 PETS全国职称英语等级考试样题(财经类)2More attention was paid to the quality of production in France atthe time of Renc Coty. Charles Deschancl was then the financial minister. Hestressed that workmanship (工作质量) and quality were more important thanquantity for industrial production. It would be necessary to produc
2、e qualitygoods for international market to compete with those produced in othercountries. The French economy needed a larger share of the international marketto balance its import and export trade. French industrial and agriculturalproduction was still not enough to meet the immediate needs of the p
3、eople, letalone long-ranged developments. Essential imports had extended the nationalcredit (信用) to the breaking point. Rents were tightly controlled, but theextreme inflation (通货膨胀) affected general population most severely throughthe cost of food. Food costs took as much as 80 per cent of the work
4、ersincome. Wages, it is true, had risen, extensive family allowances (补贴) andbenefits were paid by the state, and there was full-time and overtimeemployment. Taken together, these factors enabled the working class to existbut allowed them no sense of safety. In this precarious (担心定) anddiscouraging
5、situation, workmen were willing to work overseas for higher wages.The government was not willing to let workers leave the country. Itwas feared this migration of workers would deplete (使空虚) the labor force.The lack of qualified workers might stop the improvement in the quality ofindustrial products
6、produced. Qualified workers employed abroad would onlyincrease the quantity of quality produced in foreign countries. Also thequantity of quality goods produced in France would not be able to increase aspart of its qualified labor force moved to other countries.6. According to the passage, the Frenc
7、h workers were _.A. better paid than the workers in any other European countryB. able to save more money with the increase in his wagesC. anxious to work abroadD. often unable to find work in France7. Which was not true in French?A. Food costs were low.B. Wages had increased.C. The state paid family
8、 allowances.D. There was overtime employment.8. According to the passage, French production _.A. was inadequate to meet the needs of the French peopleB. was flooding the international market with inferiorC. emphasized industrial production at the expense of agricultural productionD. was enough for t
9、he local market9. According to the passage, the French government _.A. prohibited French to work abroadB. reduced taxed to fight inflationC. paid family allowances and benefitsD. prohibited the French workers to join labor unions10. Which of the following is not true?A. Migration of workers would de
10、plete the labor force.B. The lack of qualified workers might stop the improvement in the quality ofproducts.C. Qualified workers work abroad would increase the quality of products inforeign countries.D. Qualified workers work abroad was good for France. Passage 3Aristotle, the Greek philosopher, sum
11、med up the four chief qualitiesof money some 2,000 years ago. It must be lasting and easy to recognize, todivide, and to carry about.When we think of money today, we picture it as round, flatpieces of metal which we call coins, or as printed paper notes. But there arestill parts of the world today w
12、here coins and notes are of no use. They willbuy nothing, and a traveler might starve if he had none of the particularlocal “money“ to Among remote people, who are not often reached bytraders from outside, commerce usually means barter (物物交换). There is adirect exchange of goods. Perhaps it is fish f
13、or vegetables, meat for grain, orvarious kinds of food in exchange for pots, baskets, or other manufacturedgoods. For this kind of simple trading, money is not needed, but there is oftensomething that everyone wants and everybody can use, such as salt to flavor(给调味) food, shells for ornaments(装饰), o
14、r iron and copper to make intotools and pots. These things-salt, shells or metals-are till used as money inout-of-the way parts of the world today.Salt may rather a strange substance to use as money, but incountries where the food of the people is mainly vegetable, it is often anabsolute necessity.
15、Cakes of salt, stamped to show their value, were used asmoney in Tibet until recent times, and cakes of salt will still buy goods inBerneo and parts of Africa.Cowrie sea shells have been used as money at some time or anotherover the greater part of the Old World. These were collected mainly from thebeaches of the Maldive Islands in the Indian Ocean, and were traded to In
