KEY TO EXERCISES
Section A: Text Comprehension
I. Reference Answers to Pre-reading Questions:
1.From the local people’s words [Para 1: "Thank you, God," he says, "for the
Chinese."], we can see that they are happy about Chinese investments in their local places [Para 1].
2.The most immediate priority for China's leadership is less how to project itself
internationally than how to maintain stability in a society that is going through the sort of social and economic change that, in the past, has led to chaos and violence [Para 6].
3.Assuming a bigger global presence has forced Beijing to learn the art of
international diplomacy [Para 14].
4.No, they don’t. They only think that China has been more helpful in some areas
than others. Especially when China's perception of its own national interest matches what the U.S. and other international powers seek, that help can be significant [Para 16].
5.Absorbed by the arc of crisis spreading from the Middle East, the . is simply
less visible in Southeast Asia than it once was, and China is stepping into the vacuum [Para 19].
6.They point to two factors: the modernization of China's defense forces and the
risk of war over Taiwan [Para 23].
Section B: Exercises
I. Vocabulary Buildup
Choose the best equivalent word or phrase from the four choices marked A, B, C and
D for each underlined word or phrase in the following sentences.
1. A
2. B
3. D
4. D
5. C
6. A
7. C
8. D
9. C 10. B
II. Business Terms
1.Give the Chinese equivalents of the following business terms and expressions
which would be found in the given paragraphs of the text.
1). 飞速发展的出口贸易
2). 开办纺织厂
3). 对原材料的需求
4). 政治实力
5). 谈判中的关键一方
6). 劳动市场7). 干涉内政
8). 卫生保健和农业部门
9). 联合国安理会常任理事国
10). 石油康采恩
11). 初级商品
12). 国防白皮书
2.Give the English Equivalents of the following Business terms and expressions
which would be found in the given paragraphs of the text.
1). GDP (Gross Domestic Product)
2). pension system
3). the annual Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit
4). developing economy
5). responsible stakeholder
6). intellectual-property rights 7). sign a $16 billion contract with
8). bid jointly for global oil projects
9). foreign-exchange reserves
10). leverage over China
11). brutal competition for energy
12). tap renewable sources of energy
III. Translation Practice
Translate the following paragraph into Chinese.
……但中国现在在全球经济中的地位是那么重要，以至于在中国改变它的路线之前一直观望等待这样的选择是不切实际的。现在仍然有时间希望中国能平和的融入国际社会。也许最重要的是，中国紧凑的国内议程会阻止其做任何使国外突发不稳定状态的事情。
那么，一种乐观的观点是，中国在全球范围内的显着崛起是可以应对的。没有必要报以像对当年德国与日本崛起时的那种恐惧。为中国的崛起举杯庆祝吧，但是也不能太放松。中美之间也许不会有战争，不会有灾难，不会有失控的经济斗争。但是在这个世纪美国的相对实力将会衰落，而中国则正在崛起。这个蛋糕早就烤好了（这样的利益分配是注定的）。
IV. Text Comprehension
Answer the following questions according to the text.
1.In the first two paragraphs, the author only narrates China’s performance in
an objective tone [Para 1 & 2].
2.Through its foreign investments and appetite for raw materials, China has already
transformed economies from Angola to Australia. Now China is turning that commercial might into real political muscle, striding onto the global stage and acting like a nation that very much intends to become the world's next great power [Para 3].
3.China is preparing for its own day or its own century, that is, China is preparing
for its own prosperity and great power [Para 4].
4.Those questions hint the westerners’anxiety over China’s rise, which reflects
their mixed feeling towards China’s development and rise. As the author says,
a peaceful, prosperous future for both China and the West depends on trying to
answer them now [Para 5].
5.China is still a poor country [GDP per head in 2005 was $1,700, compared with
$42,000 in the U.S.] whose leaders face so many problems that it is reasonable to wonder how they ever sleep. The country's urban labor market recently exceeded by 20% the number of new jobs created. Its pension system is nonexistent. China is an environmental dystopia, its cities' air foul beyond imagination and its clean water scarce. Corruption is endemic and growing. Protests and riots by rural workers are measured in the tens of thousands each year. The most immediate priority for China's leadership is less how to project itself internationally
