高级经贸英语(1)2014级(题库25题)(学生版).doc

考试流程：1. 考生进入教室后站在讲台上，面对评委老师。2. 介绍且只介绍一句：“My name is”，不要讲任何：“上午好，老师好，各位评委老师好等”“废话”。3. 抽题号。4. 由评委老师宣读题目内容（考生无权看题目内容，只能听），过程大概20秒。5. 考生回答问题，时间100秒，计时结束考生停止答题（中间如果有提问环节，则时间会自动延长）。6. 考生退出考场，下一位考生立刻进入，开始新一轮考试。注意事项：1. 打分标准是思路清晰，口齿清楚，答案切中要点，考生着装、神态、举止得当。2. 各班学习委员和班长准备好固定录像设备，注意录像时长为2小时，注意内存卡大小，像素可以偏低，视频要有声音。3.提示：由于题目比较简洁，熟悉每一题的出处是非常必要，特别是要知道每一个video的名字。Class 01 Asias rise-how and when(1) China is the leading power among developing countries, but on its way to prosperity, China is facing some obstacles as well. What do you think is the greatest obstacle china is facing, and why? (Inequalities, population, Political system, etc.)(2) Many predictions are made about Chinas catching up with the US. But India is following China very closely which makes India a potential competitor. What advantages do you think China has over India?(3) The speaker said that if inequalities, climate and wars can be avoided, the world will be in equity. Do you think what influences the above factors have on the development of one country?(4) Why did the professor start his historical statistics in 1858? What did the speaker say 1858 was a watershed year in the history of Asia?Class 02 Understanding the rise of China(5) By saying “how do we make sense of china”, the speaker cited three building blocks to understand china. Can you name the three building blocks and explain them in your own words?(6) The speaker said “China is going to change the world in two fundamental respects”, what are the two respects?(7) Whats the difference of the relationship between the state and society in China from the West? What are the reasons leading to this diversity?(8) How Chineses civilization and culture are influencing the world?Class 03: Joseph Nye on global power shifts(9) What are the 3 boards of the 3-dimensional chess board game mentioned by the speaker?(10) What did the speaker say about the usage of “the smart power (the mix of soft and hard power)”?(11) How do you define “soft power”?(12) The speaker said Goldman Sachs projection is too simple, why?(13) What are zero sum and positive sum? Give me an example respectively.Class 04: Alex Tabarrok on how ideas trump crises(14) The speaker said the rise of countries like China will provide US larger markets, which means US should be willing to promote such rise. Do you agree with him? But the fact is the US has been imposing pressure on chinas export to the US, and as we know the export contributes much to chinas GDP. What do you think of this paradox?(15)“One idea, one world, one market”, the speaker illustrated a world driven by new ideas from everyone. China has refined its education system so that more and more people are receiving higher education, but why the rate of innovation of some core technology failed to catch up the pace of countries like the US?(16) Why do action movies have larger budgets than comedies?Class 05 the voices of Chinas workers(17) There is an obvious and significant gap between the retail price and the cost (raw material and labor) of certain products like Nike running shoes and Couch bags. Why factories in China are willing to take these orders knowing they cant take most of the profit? Cant they turn to more profitable markets?(18) Those girls interviewed by the speaker are aware of what they want and diligent to realize their dreams. But many countryside girls fortune is not that good as those girls. Please tell me the reasons and what can be done to change this?Class 06 Food Security(19) Please describe the vicious cycle once a chicken grower begins his building-up of chicken house in U.S.(20) With the innovation of science and technology, food processing becomes automatic yet more sufficient to satisfy the growing needs for food. As every coin has two sides, what are the demerits?(21) After many outbreaks of food contaminations which killed many people, the government has been inefficient to regulate food industry. What are the reasons?(22) If one day you were appointed the minister of Ministry of Health of PRC, what would you do to change the current situation of food regulation or legislation in China since weve been suffering so much from food insecurity?(23) Are you aware that GMO products are everywhere surround us? Do you think its safe or not? What are your concerns?(24) There was one boy named