独家权威震撼发布：张中宁主编《最新西方报刊经贸文章选读》课后作业答案Lesson08

独家权威震撼发布：张中宁主编《最新西方报刊经贸文章选读》课后作业答案Lesson08 KEY TO EXERCISES Section A: Text Comprehension I. Reference Answers to Pre-reading Questions: 1. The WTO ruled that China had violated international rules by limiting imports of books, songs and movies and gave the United States a victory. [Para 1.1] 2. The ruling means that the W.T.O supports demands that the United States entertainment products be allowed to sell directly to the Chinese market, instead of first going through the censorship in China. [Para 1.6] 3. The ruling goes to the heart of the trade issues: whether intellectual property should deserve the protection from discriminatory trade practices as manufactured goods. [Para 1.11] 4. The WTO ruled that China had violated international rules by limiting imports of intellectual products; China, under the pressure of the global corporate outcry, gave up charges against Rio Tinto; The Beijing administration decided to move away the plan to install censorship software on all new computers sold there. [Para 2.1] 5. In those matters, business won. In terms of events involving global commercial profits, politics has to take these pressures into consideration and retreat to some extent. [Para 2.3] 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. B 2. C 3. A 4. D 5. B 6. C II. Translation Practice Translate the following paragraph into Chinese. 在上述的事件中，政治和商业利益(或曰经济利益)产生冲突，商业胜利了。然而商业 并不总是赢家。当商业胜利的时候，比如在这些事件中，人们通常无法透视其原因。但是至 少在一些关注度比较高的事件中，中国看起来正面对如下现实:当外部商业界的经济利益受 到威胁时，它们会不受控制而且公然反抗。所以中国的威权体制可能也得随之发展，虽然这 一发展方式其高层领导或许不太愿意接受。 由于其迅猛的国内发展和快速惊人的国际扩张，中国现在已涉足全球市场。原本仅仅出 于本地区考虑而做出的决定——比如审查网站，保护国有企业的利益以及限制外国新闻和娱 乐产品进入本国——现在都会在世界范围内产生(不良)影响和后果。 III. Text Comprehension Answer the following questions according to the text. 1. It means that the nation will take measures to protect its domestic market and restrict foreign competitions. [Para 1.2] 2. According to the author, first, it’s due to the quota of 20 foreign films that can be released in China; Second, Chinese consumers had no habit of purchasing authorized movies or songs 1 with copyright which were more expensive. [Para 1.3-1.4] 3. He is mildly optimistic about the effect, that is, it will not be a night-and-day, revolutionary impact right away, but there is still a tendency towards the cease of the import quota. [Para 1.9] 4. It’s because of the trade surplus in part. Chinese exports have expanded rapidly while the imports have grown much more slowly. [Para 1.12] 5. One reason for the slow growth in imports has been China’s restrictions on imported books, movies and other content. [Para 1.13] 6. The author wants to support his argument that it is improper for China to grant intellectual property the protection which will lead to Chinese own growth during the Western recession. [Para 1.11-1.13] 7. The restrictions have been aimed partly at limiting foreign influence in China but also at sheltering domestic industries. [Para 1.17] 8. The Obama administration now decides to take more assertive and confrontational trade policy toward China under the pressure from the Democratic majority in Congress. [Para 1.20] 9. According to the author, these events reflect the inherent conflict between China’s aggressive push into the global business arena and its domestic politics, which remained tightly- controlled by the Communist Party, that is to say, the collision between China’s liberal economic development on the world stage and its tightly-controlled domestic politics in China. [Para 2.2] 10. These decisions which once were made on purely parochial grounds now have international ramifications because of its booming domestic growth and breakneck international expansion in China. That is to say, Beijing has a global footprint now, and even its local decisions will have some global impact to some degree. [Para 2.4] 11. They said the software stifled free speech, compromised corporate security and threatened computers’ stability. [Para 2.7] 12. China is bound as much as other nations are, by the WTO’s rules and will not develop at the cost of other nations’ interests. [Para 2.10-2.11] 13. They feared that they could face the same persecution and trials for engaging in the same activities as employees did in Rio Tinto. [Para 2.15] 14. Many experts say that China appears to be aware of the far broader ramifications of their actions as insiders with a stake in the global system, while some others still believe what outsiders see as carefully calculated policy changes by China may in fact be nothing of the sort and thus lead to international pressure.[Para 2.17-2.23] 15. No, few experts are willing to predict such trend. They said that China had undergone “a real pushback” in the last five years on some fronts, reasserting political dogma in some areas where commercial norms and the rule of law had begun to have more sway. That is to say, as suggested by Jonathan Hecht, an expert on Chinese law at Yale University’s China Law Center, the developments in China should be viewed against a history of great leaps forward on such matters, followed by equally great retreats. [Para 2.24-2.27] IV. Interactive Brainstorming (Omitted) Discuss with your partners the following questions based on your understanding of the text 2 as well as your own knowledge and ideas. 3