准确性练习9-－经济专题
[if !supportLists]1.[endif]The index of leading economic indicators fell 0.3%in May.In the same month,new-home sales plunged to a 12-month low,despite the best mortgage rates in two decades.
五月份的先行经济指标指数下降0.3%。同一个月里，尽管房屋抵押贷款利率达到二十年来最低值，新房销售量却暴跌至12个月以来最低点。
[if !supportLists]2.[endif]In one such report,Commercesaid last weekthat its index of leading economic indicators rose a strong 1.2% in July.
上周，商会在这样一份报告中表示，其7月的先行经济指标指数强势增长1.2%。
Commerce是什么？
[if !supportLists]3.[endif]“…World BankManaging DirectorRichard Frank said in a statement that the＄52
billion international rescue package assembled by the Obama
administration--which includes＄17 billion from the International MonetaryFund--would meet Mexico’s short-term financial crisis, which blew up after thegovernment devalued the peso in December.”
世界银行常务董事理查德·弗兰克发表声明称，墨西哥政府11月贬值比索后，墨西哥爆发了短期金融危机，而由奥巴马政府募集的520亿美元国际救援一揽子计划——其中包括来自国际货币基金组织的170亿美元——将帮助墨西哥偿付。
[if !supportLists]4.[endif]The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed this week at
2909.1, up 6.3% in the past four weeks and up 544 points, or 23%, since its
October low.
本周，道琼斯工业平均指数在过去4周内上涨6.3%，上升544点，报收2909.1点。该指数自十月最低点起上涨了23%。
[if !supportLists]5.[endif]The stock market gave the flagging recovery an apparent
vote of non-confidence last week when the Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged
120 points on Friday.
上周五，道琼斯工业平均指数暴跌120点，经济复苏萎靡不振的情况由股市可见一斑。
[if !supportLists]6.[endif]March Cotton closed 0.46 cent lower at 85.30 cent.
三月棉花收盘下跌0.46美分，收盘价85.30美分。
[if !supportLists]7.[endif]The Deutsche Bank cut its discount rate to 3.5%, the
lowest level in seven years.
德意志银行将贴现率下调至3.5%，是近7年最低水平。
[if !supportLists]8.[endif]The number of workers in the United States applying
for state unemployment benefits rose to the record high level in more than a
month.
一个多月见，美国申请失业救济金的工人人数升至历史最高点。
[if !supportLists]9.[endif]Export surplus was 72.54 billion Euros, compared
with 47.71 billion Euros in the same period a year earlier.
出口顺差为725.4亿欧元，相比去年同期的477.1亿欧元（增加了248.3亿欧元）。
[if !supportLists]10.[endif]The
December T-bond futures ended today at 117-13/32 in Tokyo market against its
previous closing of 117-11/32.
东京市场十二月份长期国债期货收盘报收117-13/32，昨日报收117-11/32。