二、正误判断题。正确的用“A”表示，错误的用“B”表示，请将“答题纸”上相应的代码涂黑。（本大题共 10小题，每小题 2分，共 20分）
Passage 1
For many nations, the worst of the economic slump is over.
“The world economy has bottomed out,” notes Rudi Dornbusch, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) economist who takes a monthly look at global economic trends for a number of corporations.
After a slow first half, the United States recovery has accelerated. Business is picking up in Canada and Britain also. Canada should have around 2.7 percent real growth this year. The new British budget, announced this week, assumes a real growth rate next year of 2.5 percent.
But on the European continent, the situation is less happy. “The economic climate has deteriorated further, albeit at a declining rate,” a European Community report commented recently. “There are still few signs of a cyclical turning point being reached. ”
“The Bundesbank continues to call the shots,” Dornbusch says, referring to Germany’s central bank. It has been gradually lowering interest rates all year, but not fast enough to satisfy its neighbors. Dornbusch argues that real interest rates, which take into account inflation, are too high in Germany. Producer prices have fallen for six months there, so interest rates of 6.4 percent are “extremely high for an economy that is not growing,” he says.
For 18 months economists have been revising their forecasts down for continental Europe. Dornbusch figures, “The bottom may have been reached, but a strong upswing is implausible. ”
The MIT economist criticizes the French government for strangling the economy with high interest rates in order to keep the franc strong against the German Deutsche mark. “France will do very poorly.” he concludes.
16. Rudi Dornbusch has noticed that the world economy has fallen to its record lows of the recession.
17.The economic situation in Europe has worsened, and there is no sign of a strong recovery yet.
18. According to Rudi Dornbusch for an economy that is not growing the interest rates should be relatively low.
19.France’s decision to keep parity with German Deutsche mark is not a wise
one.
20.The present economic situation in Canada presents nothing to be optimistic about.
