链典4矮降贸多大 高级商务英语阅读 Supplementary Exercises for Chapter 4 Economy Terrorized Questions on the text: 1.What is the meaning of Main Street in subtitle? 2.What is meant by"put a price on the terror attacks"? 3.What is the response in the stock market to terrorist attack? 4.What changes have taken place in terms of ad language? 5.What will happen to future insurance premium? ll.Read the following text and choose the best sentence from A to H below to fill in each of the gaps in the text. Trillions of dollars were lost in the week the Wall Street stockmarket re-opened after the September 11 attacks.Job losses soon hit six figures with airlines announcing huge sackings as flights were grounded and fear of hijackings took hold.1) 2) By March 2001,the high-tech Nasdaq index had already fallen by more than 65 percent from its peak a year earlier.World demand for agricultural products had not recovered from the 1997-1998 Asian crisis and the price of many products was still lower than before the crisis. There were large trade imbalances across the developed countries and increased instability of exchange rates. Typically,in a crisis the smaller or less profitable companies go to the wall or are swallowed up by bigger corporations which are better equipped to weather the storm.That can be seen at present in the airline industry;as companies go under those remaining will consolidate into greater monopolies.3) There is talk of Germany's Siemens and America's Motorola combining their mobile telecoms,and Sweden's Ericsson is already combining its loss-making mobile-telephone business with Japan's Sony. 第1页共4页高级商务英语阅读 Supplementary Exercises for Chapter 4 Economy Terrorized I. Questions on the text: 1. What is the meaning of Main Street in subtitle? 2. What is meant by “put a price on the terror attacks”? 3. What is the response in the stock market to terrorist attack? 4. What changes have taken place in terms of ad language? 5. What will happen to future insurance premium? II. Read the following text and choose the best sentence from A to H below to fill in each of the gaps in the text. Trillions of dollars were lost in the week the Wall Street stockmarket re-opened after the September 11 attacks. Job losses soon hit six figures with airlines announcing huge sackings as flights were grounded and fear of hijackings took hold. 1) ________. 2) ________ By March 2001, the high-tech Nasdaq index had already fallen by more than 65 percent from its peak a year earlier. World demand for agricultural products had not recovered from the 1997-1998 Asian crisis and the price of many products was still lower than before the crisis. There were large trade imbalances across the developed countries and increased instability of exchange rates. Typically, in a crisis the smaller or less profitable companies go to the wall or are swallowed up by bigger corporations which are better equipped to weather the storm. That can be seen at present in the airline industry; as companies go under those remaining will consolidate into greater monopolies. 3) ________ There is talk of Germany’s Siemens and America’s Motorola combining their mobile telecoms, and Sweden’s Ericsson is already combining its loss-making mobile-telephone business with Japan’s Sony. 第 1 页 共 4 页