考研英語歷年閱讀理解真題精析--1997年part5

1、考研英語歷年閱讀理解真題精析 -1997 年 part5Part FiveMuch of the language used to describe monetary policy, such as "steering the economy to a soft landing" or "a touch on the brakes", makes it sound like a precise science. Nothing could be further from the truth. The link between interest rates

2、 and inflation is uncertain. And there are long, variable lags before policy changes have any effect on the economy. Hence the analogy that likens the conduct of monetary policy to driving a car with a blackened windscreen, a cracked rear view mirror and a faulty steering wheel.Given all these disad

3、vantages, central bankers seem to have hadmuch to boast aboutof late. Average inflation in the big seven industrial economies fell to a mere 2.3% last year, close to its lowest level in 30 years, before rising slightly to 2.5% this July. This is a long way below the double digit rates which many cou

4、ntries experienced in the 1970s and early 1980s.It is also less than most forecasters had predicated. In late 1994 the panel of economists which The Economist polls each month said that America's inflation rate would average 3.5% in 1995. In fact, it fell to 2.6% in August, and expected to avera

5、ge only about 3% for the year as a whole. In Britain and Japan inflation is running half a percentage point below the rate predicted at the end of last year. This is no flash in the pan; over the past couple of years, inflation has been consistently lower than expected in Britain and America.Economi

6、sts have been particularly surprised by favorable inflation figures in Britain and the United States, since conventional measures suggest that both economies, and especially America's, have little productive slack. America's capacity utilization, for example, his historically high levels ear

7、lier this year, and its jobless rate( 5.6% in August ) has fallen bellow most estimates of the natural rate of unemployment - the rate below which inflation has taken off in the past.Whyhas inflation proved so mild? The most thrilling explanation is, unfortunately, a little defective. Some economist

8、s argue that powerful structural changes in the world have up ended the old economic models that were based upon the historical link between growth and inflation.17. From the passage we learn that .A) there is a definite relationship between inflation and interest ratesB) economy will always follow

9、certain modelsC) the economic situation is better than expectedD) economists had foreseen the present economic situation18. According to the passage, which of the following is TRUE?A) Making monetary policies is comparable to driving a carB) An extremely low jobless rate will lead to inflationC) A h

10、igh unemployment rate will result from inflationD) Interest rates have an immediate effect on the economy19. The sentence "This is no flash in the pan" (Line 5, Paragraph 3) meansthat .A) the low inflation rate will lastfor some time B ) the inflation rate will soon riseC) the inflation wi

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