Part I Directions: Fill the blanks according to what you hear. (数字题请写出数字) International trade is likely to be, again, a main issue for political and business leaders at the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland. American President Donald Trump plans to attend the meeting in Davos this week. He is the closing speaker at the meeting. An administration spokeswoman said the president would seek to "promote his policies to 1 American businesses, American industries and American workers." Trump is expected defend his administration's trade measures. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi gave this year's 2 speech. The India leader said his country's economy would more than double in size by the year 3 while fighting climate change. China is sending a delegation of more than 130 people including a top 4 advisor Liu He. Last year, Chinese President Xi Jinping attended. He warned against protectionism and trade disputes. At the time, Xi said that "a trade war will only lead to suffering on both sides." Tao Ran is an economist at the Brookings Institution, a research group in Washington. He said China's Liu will seek to get the U.S. to limit trade actions against his country. "I think what Liu He will do is (try) to persuade the U.S. from 5 more trade actions against China," he said. Recently, the U.S. has 6 criticism for the decision to place taxes on imported washing machines and solar panels. The move largely affects South Korea and China. The move follows a finding by the U.S. International Trade Commission. Trade officials said that those imported products were a "cause of serious injury to 7 manufacturers." The U.S. is seeking to place a 20 percent tax on imported washing machines in the first year. South Korea says the import taxes 8 World Trade Organization rules. South Korean companies Samsung and LG would be hard hit by the import taxes on washers. A 30 percent tax on imported solar cells is also being sought. China is a major manufacturer of solar equipment. The import taxes on both kinds of products are planned to decrease in the second and third years. India's Prime Minister Modi 9 his country's fast economic growth. India has one of the world's fastest growing economies. It is the world's largest democracy and currently the second most populated country. Modi said India would greatly increase its use of renewable energy to reduce the effects of climate change. But Modi said he also was concerned about moves to increase 10 to trade that threatened globalization. He added that, "the solution to this worrisome situation against globalization is not isolation." In his speech, the Indian leader called climate change a major threat. He added that developed countries needed to provide developing nations, like his own, with more money for new technologies. The World Economic Forum, a Swiss nonprofit organization, holds its main yearly meeting each January. I'm Mario Ritter.
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- The subject (主语)of the sentence “According to the statistical data by the World Trade Organization, China will have become the world's largest tourism country by 2020.” is _____________
- •(1) If the country’s imports were more than exports, the country would have a trade surplus.
- 21世纪英语Book3 Unit4 复合式听写(音频在第四单元exercise课时里) Russia is the largest economic power that is not a member of the World Trade Organization. But that may change. Last Friday, the European Union said it would support Russia's (1) ____to become a W.T.O. member. Representatives of the European Union met with Russian (2) ____in Moscow. They signed a trade agreement that took six years to (3) ____. Russia called the trade agreement (4) ____. It agreed to slowly increase fuel prices within the country. It also agreed to permit (5) ____in its communications industry and to remove some barriers to trade. In (6) _______ for European support to join the W.T.O>, Russian President Putin said that Russia would speed up the (7)____to approve the Kyoto Protocol, an international (8) ____l agreement to reduce the production of harmful industrial gases. These "greenhouse gases" trap heat in the atmosphere and are blamed for changing the world's climate. Russia had signed the Kyoto Protocol, but has not yet (9) ____it. The agreement takes effect when it has been approved by nations that produce at least 55 percent of the world's greenhouse gases. But currently, nations producing only 44 percent have approved the Protocol. Russia produces about 17 percent of the world's green-house gases. The United States, the world's biggest producer, (10) ____from the Kyoto Protocol after President Bush took office in 2001. So, Russia's approval is required to put the Kyoto Protocol into effect. To join the W.T.O., a country must reach trade agreements with major trading countries that are also W.T.O. members. Russia must still reach agreements with China, Japan, South Korea and the United States.
- In China's first-time trade remedy case against foreign products in 1997, newsprint imported from ___________ was put under China's anti-dumping investigation. A: The United States B: The Republic of Korea C: Canada D: Australia
- In China's first-time trade remedy case against foreign products in 1997, newsprint imported from ___________ was put under China's anti-dumping investigation. A: The United States B: The European Union C: The Republic of Korea D: Canada