As a central bankers' bank, BIS holds routine meetings to coordinate activities for intern
A.Right
B.Wrong
C.Doesn't say
A.Right
B.Wrong
C.Doesn't say
The system that is built up by the acts of trust includes ______.
A.depositors and borrowers
B.depositors, borrowers and bankers
C.depositors and bankers
D.borrowers and bankers
It has long been known that a taxi firm called AAAA cars has a big advantage over Zodiac cars when customers thumb through their phone directories. Less well known is the advantage that Adam Abbott has in life over Zoë Zysman. English names are fairly evenly spread between the halves of the alphabet. Yet a suspiciously large number of top people have surnames beginning with letters between A and K.
Thus the American president and vice-president have surnames starting with B and C respectively; and 26 of George Bush’s predecessors (including his father) had surnames in the first half of the alphabet against just 16 in the second half. Even more striking, six of the seven heads of government of the G7 rich countries are alphabetically advantaged (Berlusconi, Blair, Bush, Chirac, Chrétien and Koizumi). The world’s three top central bankers (Greenspan, Duisenberg and Hayami) are all close to the top of the alphabet, even if one of them really uses Japanese characters. As are the world’s five richest men (Gates, Buffett, Allen, Ellison and Albrecht).
Can this merely be coincidence? One theory, dreamt up in all the spare time enjoyed by the alphabetically disadvantaged, is that the rot sets in early. At the start of the first year in infant school, teachers seat pupils alphabetically from the front, to make it easier to remember their names. So short-sighted Zysman junior gets stuck in the back row, and is rarely asked the improving questions posed by those insensitive teachers. At the time the alphabetically disadvantaged may think they have had a lucky escape. Yet the result may be worse qualifications, because they get less individual attention, as well as less confidence in speaking publicly.
The humiliation continues. At university graduation ceremonies, the ABCs proudly get their awards first; by the time they reach the Zysmans most people are literally having a ZZZ. Shortlists for job interviews, election ballot papers, lists of conference speakers and attendees: all tend to be drawn up alphabetically, and their recipients lose interest as they plough through them.
第46题:What does the author intend to illustrate with AAA A cars and Zodiac cars?
A A kind of overlooked inequality.
B A type of conspicuous bias.
C A type of personal prejudice.
D A kind of brand discrimination.
What gives rise to the bankers' acceptances?
A.The money markets.
B.The banks.
C.The international trade.
D.The buying and selling of goods.
此题为判断题(对,错)。
Billions of dollars worth of new securities reach the market each year. The traditional (56) in the primary, markets is called an investment banker. The investment banker's principal activity is to bring sellers and buyers together, thus creating a market. He normally buys the new issue from the issuer at an agreed-upon price and hopes to (57) it to the investing public at a (58) price. In this capacity, investment bankers are said to underwrite, or guarantee, an issue. Usually, a group of investment bankers joins to underwrite a security offering and form. what is called an underwriting syndicate. The (59) received by the investment banker in this case is the differential, or spread, between his purchase and resale prices. The risk to the underwriter is that the issue may not attract buyers at a (60) differential.
(41)
A.buyer
B.organizer
C.seller
D.middleman
(9)
A.From an early date the banker have charged a commission for their services.
B.From an early date the banker has an obligation to serve the customers.
C.From an early date the customers have charged a commission.
D.From an early date the customer has an obligation to serve the banker.
A.independently
B.individually
C.similarly
D.irregularly
A.on
B.against
C.from
D.of