準(zhǔn)確性練習(xí)9-－經(jīng)濟(jì)專題

[if !supportLists]1.[endif]The index of leading economic indicators fell 0.3%in May.In the same month,new-home sales plunged to a 12-month low,despite the best mortgage rates in two decades.

五月份的先行經(jīng)濟(jì)指標(biāo)指數(shù)下降0.3%。同一個(gè)月里，盡管房屋抵押貸款利率達(dá)到二十年來最低值，新房銷售量卻暴跌至12個(gè)月以來最低點(diǎn)。

[if !supportLists]2.[endif]In one such report,Commercesaid last weekthat its index of leading economic indicators rose a strong 1.2% in July.

上周，商會(huì)在這樣一份報(bào)告中表示，其7月的先行經(jīng)濟(jì)指標(biāo)指數(shù)強(qiáng)勢(shì)增長(zhǎng)1.2%。

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[if !supportLists]3.[endif]“…World BankManaging DirectorRichard Frank said in a statement that the＄52

billion international rescue package assembled by the Obama

administration--which includes＄17 billion from the International MonetaryFund--would meet Mexico’s short-term financial crisis, which blew up after thegovernment devalued the peso in December.”

世界銀行常務(wù)董事理查德·弗蘭克發(fā)表聲明稱，墨西哥政府11月貶值比索后，墨西哥爆發(fā)了短期金融危機(jī)，而由奧巴馬政府募集的520億美元國(guó)際救援一攬子計(jì)劃——其中包括來自國(guó)際貨幣基金組織的170億美元——將幫助墨西哥償付。

[if !supportLists]4.[endif]The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed this week at

2909.1, up 6.3% in the past four weeks and up 544 points, or 23%, since its

October low.

本周，道瓊斯工業(yè)平均指數(shù)在過去4周內(nèi)上漲6.3%，上升544點(diǎn)，報(bào)收2909.1點(diǎn)。該指數(shù)自十月最低點(diǎn)起上漲了23%。

[if !supportLists]5.[endif]The stock market gave the flagging recovery an apparent

vote of non-confidence last week when the Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged

120 points on Friday.

上周五，道瓊斯工業(yè)平均指數(shù)暴跌120點(diǎn)，經(jīng)濟(jì)復(fù)蘇萎靡不振的情況由股市可見一斑。

[if !supportLists]6.[endif]March Cotton closed 0.46 cent lower at 85.30 cent.

三月棉花收盤下跌0.46美分，收盤價(jià)85.30美分。

[if !supportLists]7.[endif]The Deutsche Bank cut its discount rate to 3.5%, the

lowest level in seven years.

德意志銀行將貼現(xiàn)率下調(diào)至3.5%，是近7年最低水平。

[if !supportLists]8.[endif]The number of workers in the United States applying

for state unemployment benefits rose to the record high level in more than a

month.

一個(gè)多月見，美國(guó)申請(qǐng)失業(yè)救濟(jì)金的工人人數(shù)升至歷史最高點(diǎn)。

[if !supportLists]9.[endif]Export surplus was 72.54 billion Euros, compared

with 47.71 billion Euros in the same period a year earlier.

出口順差為725.4億歐元，相比去年同期的477.1億歐元（增加了248.3億歐元）。

[if !supportLists]10.[endif]The

December T-bond futures ended today at 117-13/32 in Tokyo market against its

previous closing of 117-11/32.

東京市場(chǎng)十二月份長(zhǎng)期國(guó)債期貨收盤報(bào)收117-13/32，昨日?qǐng)?bào)收117-11/32。