下列四个备选项中只有一个可以替代句中加粗的单词或词组，请将其代码填写在题后的括号内。The authorities are willing to permit a run-down in the country’s international reserves over the next few years as means of 【accelerating】 the introduction of foreign technology.

Another 20% worked well, but the remaining 60% should have been 【scrapped】.

Now Zhangjiagang is China’s seventh largest port and a 【tumultuous】 construction zone of half-built office buildings and hotels

Against this 【deteriorating】 global background, the improvement in economic performance in a few developing regions in 1991 was especially noteworthy.

Balanced against that criticism is the positive reaction in Latin America to Mr. Clinton’s 【embrace】 of the free-trade agreement.

As Europe’s economy has 【soured】, free-market ideas that are new to much of Europe face new challenges.

At the summit meeting, America insisted that Japan should 【come up with】 specific measures that would enable it to meet new import targets.

Fearful that rapidly modernizing Korean 【rivals】 will intrude on its foreign and domestic markets, Japan has fought to keep the Koreans from appropriating its technologies.

International consultants who want to secure definite projects at 【lucrative】 fees are finding it harder and harder.

A separate, long-running dispute over oilseeds does still 【pose】 a threat.