[单项选择]When will the economic APEC summit in Shanghai be held
A. In August.
B. In September.
C. In October.

[简答题]APEC

[简答题]We lived in Shanghai when I was very young. We moved to Beijing later. My father found a job there. (compound-complex sentence)

[单项选择]When a firm is earning positive economic profits in a monopolistic competitive market, what will most likely occur（）
A. New firms will enter driving down the economic profits to zero.
B. Losses will occur in the short run.
C. Price takers will be over run by price searchers.

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When will the speaker talk about the economic and political changes

[单项选择]When an economy is in an economic expansion, automatic stabilizers will tend to alter government spending and taxation so as to:（）
A. ensure that the budget will remain in balance.
B. reduce the budget deficit (or increase the surplus).
C. enlarge the budget deficit (or reduce the surplus).

[简答题]summit meeting

[单项选择]

When a Shanghai ad consultant was recently asked to recommend young local designers to an international agency, he sent three candidates with years of work experience. But the company decided they weren’t good enough and had to import designers from the West. It’s a common problem that Chinese vocational grads simply haven’t had good enough teaching. Most of the lecturers don’t have any real work experience, so they can’t teach useful things. When graduates do get hired, they basically have to be re-educated.
China’s rapid economic expansion has exposed many frailties in its education system, especially on the vocational side. The country can’t produce enough skilled workers. In part that’s because it invests far more in academic than vocational programs. Funding has fallen significantly since the 1990s. Partly as a result, today only 38 percent or so of China’s high-school-age students attend vocational schools, well
A. the vocational education lacks government financial support
B. the public do not think much of the vocational workers
C. few allow their children to become technical workers
D. they fear that they can not find a job after graduation