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What’s the one word of advice a well-meaning professional would give to a recent college graduate? China? India? Brazil? How abo

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问题     What’s the one word of advice a well-meaning professional would give to a recent college graduate? China? India? Brazil? How about trade?
    When the Commerce Department reported last week that the trade deficit in June approached $50 billion, it set off a new round of economic doomsaying. Imports, which soared to $200.3 billion in the month, are subtracted in the calculation of gross domestic product. The larger the trade deficit, the smaller the GDP. Should such imbalances continue, pessimists say, they could contribute to slower growth.
    But there’s another way of looking at the trade data. Over the past two years, the figures on imports and exports seem not to signal a double-dip recession — a renewed decline in the broad level of economic activity in the United States — but an economic expansion.
    The rising volume of trade — more goods and services shuttling in and out of the United States — is good news for many sectors. Companies engaged in shipping, trucking, rail freight, delivery, and logistics (物流) have all been reporting better than expected results. The rising numbers signify growing vitality in foreign markets — when we import more stuff, it puts more cash in the hands of people around the world, and U.S. exports are rising because more foreigners have the ability to buy the things we produce and market. The rising tide of trade is also good news for people who work in trade-sensitive businesses, especially those that produce commodities for which global demand sets the price — agricultural goods, mining, metals, oil.
    And while exports always seem to lag, U.S. companies are becoming more involved in the global economy with each passing month. General Motors sells as many cars in China as in America each month. While that may not do much for imports, it does help GM’s balance sheet — and hence makes the jobs of U.S.-based executives more stable.
    One great challenge for the U.S. economy is slack domestic consumer demand. Americans are paying down debt, saving more, and spending more carefully. That’s to be expected, given what we’ve been through. But there’s a bigger challenge. Can U.S.-based businesses, large and small, figure out how to get a piece of growing global demand? Unless you want to pick up and move to India, or Brazil, or China, the best way to do that is through trade. It may seem obvious, but it’s no longer enough simply to do business with our friends and neighbors here at home.
    Companies and individuals who don’t have a strategy to export more, or to get more involved in foreign markets, or to play a role in global trade, are shutting themselves out of the lion’s share of economic opportunity in our world.
Who particularly benefit from the rising volume of trade?
选项 A、People who have expertise in international trade.
B、Producers of agricultural goods and raw materials.
C、Consumers who favor imported goods and services.
D、Retailers dealing in foreign goods and services.
答案B
解析 根据题干中的the rising和of trade将本题出处定位于第4段末句。 该句提到，贸易的高涨对于那些工作在容易受贸易影响的行业的人们来说，也是 个好消息，尤其是对那些由全球需求决定商品价格(如农产品、矿产、金属及石油) 的生产商来说更是如此。由此可知，农产品、矿产、金属和石油的生产商尤其受 益。题干中的benefit from对应原文的is good news for，particularly对应especially， [B]中的Producers同义替换了原文的those that produce，raw materials概括原文的 mining，metals，oil，故答案为[B]。注意文中并未提到贸易高涨对“精通国际贸易 的人”和“经营国外商品和服务的零售商“尤其”有利，故排除[A]和[D]。文 中说的“尤其受益的人”中，没有包括“偏爱进口商品的消费者”，故排除[C]。
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