(中译英)强硬政策

(中译英)合资企业

(中译英)技术转让

Passage 1Having spent years fattening up its leading companies, South Korea is now forcing them to slim down. On Jan. 18h the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy announced thet the country's top 30 chaebols would do as the government had asked and concentrate on their core businesses. The ten largest chaebols were alfowed to name three sectors each, the next 20 to name two sectors.The government claims it has three clear aims: to encourage competition and foster small businesses: to wrest power from the old industrial dynasties and hand it over to professional managers; and, above all, to stem the 【"octopus-like growth"】of the chaebols into unrelated areas.36.In what way did the governmeat require the chaebols to slim down?

Passage 1Having spent years fattening up its leading companies, South Korea is now forcing them to slim down. On Jan. 18h the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy announced thet the country's top 30 chaebols would do as the government had asked and concentrate on their core businesses. The ten largest chaebols were alfowed to name three sectors each, the next 20 to name two sectors.The government claims it has three clear aims: to encourage competition and foster small businesses: to wrest power from the old industrial dynasties and hand it over to professional managers; and, above all, to stem the 【"octopus-like growth"】of the chaebols into unrelated areas.37.What does"octopus-like growth"mean here?

Passage 1Having spent years fattening up its leading companies, South Korea is now forcing them to slim down. On Jan. 18h the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy announced thet the country's top 30 chaebols would do as the government had asked and concentrate on their core businesses. The ten largest chaebols were alfowed to name three sectors each, the next 20 to name two sectors.The government claims it has three clear aims: to encourage competition and foster small businesses: to wrest power from the old industrial dynasties and hand it over to professional managers; and, above all, to stem the 【"octopus-like growth"】of the chaebols into unrelated areas.38.Among the three aims of the government order, which is the most important?

Passage 2In the first half of the 1980s, it was conventional wisdom to say that the exceptional strength of the dollar was partly responsible for-and helped to offset-the increasing weakness of dollar-denominated commodity prices. 【All other things】 being equal, so the argument went, a subsequent 【fall in the dollar】 might be expected to give a compensating boost to dollar commodity prices.39.What do"all other things"mainly refer to?

Passage 2In the first half of the 1980s, it was conventional wisdom to say that the exceptional strength of the dollar was partly responsible for-and helped to offset-the increasing weakness of dollar-denominated commodity prices. 【All other things】 being equal, so the argument went, a subsequent 【fall in the dollar】 might be expected to give a compensating boost to dollar commodity prices.40.What was the"fall in the dollar"subsequent to?

Passage 2In the first half of the 1980s, it was conventional wisdom to say that the exceptional strength of the dollar was partly responsible for-and helped to offset-the increasing weakness of dollar-denominated commodity prices. 【All other things】 being equal, so the argument went, a subsequent 【fall in the dollar】 might be expected to give a compensating boost to dollar commodity prices.41.Why should the "boost" have been compensating one?

But some economists stressed the risks that a more aggressive U. S. policy poses. C.Fred Bergsten, director of the Institute for International Economists and a prominent member of the free-trade-establishment, said he saw little evidence for a strategy, except for “a willingness to listen to protectionist appeals" from the automobile,semiconductor, steel and energy industries, among others: End a desire to moility these industrics' powerful congressional protectors.