2023年河南金融英语考试考前冲刺卷.docx

2023年河南金融英语考试考前冲刺卷本卷共分为1大题50小题，作答时间为180分钟，总分100分，60分及格。一、单项选择题（共50题，每题2分。每题的备选项中，只有一个最符合题意） 1. Directions: In this section, you will hear three short passages. At the end of each passage, you will hear some questions. The passages and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A, B, C and D. Then mark the corresponding letter on the ANSWER SHEET with a single line through the center. BPassage One/BAhotel expensesBstock exchangeCplane expensesDrestaurant expenses 2. Directions: In this section, you will hear three short passages. At the end of each passage, you will hear some questions. The passages and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A, B, C and D. Then mark the corresponding letter on the ANSWER SHEET with a single line through the center. BPassage One/BAIt can avoid the necessity of carrying large amount of cash.BYou neednt purchase large amounts of travelers checks.CYou neednt use personal checks in places other than your own locality.DIt cant provide an instant cash service in ease you run out of money. 3.AVertical method.BHorizontal method.CBalance sheet.DBoth and . 4.BPassage Two/BAbout a business operating cycle, which of the followings is the most accurateA12 monthsBhalf a yearCthe time span during which cash is used to acquire goods and servicesDalways longer than a year 5.BPassage Three/BApreferred stockBcommon stockCconcept stockDcynical stock 6.Passage 2 Once you own an option, there are three methods that can be used to make a profit or avoid loss : exercise it, offset it with another option, or let it expire worthless. By exercising an option you have purchased, you are choosing to take delivery of (call) or to sell (put) the underlying asset at the options strike price. Only option buyers have the choice to exercise an option. Option sellers, on the other hand, may experience having an option assigned to an option holder and subsequently exercised. Offsetting is a method of reversing the original transaction to exit the trade. If you bought a call, you have to sell the call with the same strike price and expiration. If you sold a call, you have to buy a call with the same strike price and expiration. If you bought a put, you have to sell a put with the same strike price and expiration. If you sold a put you have to buy a put with the same strike price and expiration. If you do not offset your position, then you have not officially exited the trade. If an option has not been offset or exercised by expiration, the option expires worthless. If you originally sold an option, then you want it to expire worthless because then you get to keep the credit you received from the option premium. Since an option seller wants an option to expire worthless, the passage of time is an option sellers friend and an option buyers enemy. If you bought an option, the premium is nonrefundable even if you let the option expire worthless. As an option gets closer to expiration, it decreases in value. It is important to note that most options traded on U.S. exchanges are American style options. In essence, they differ from European options in one main way. American style options can be exercised at any time up until expiration. In contrast, European style options can be exercised only on the day they expire. All the options of one type (put or call) which have the same underlying security are called a class of options. For example, all the calls on IBM constitute an option class. All the options that are in one class and have the same strike price are called an option series.You can choose the following methods to exit an option position except to _. Aexercise the optionBpay the premiumCoffset a dealDlet it expire 7. Directions: There are three passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them, there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. You should make the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on the ANSWER SHEET by drawing a single line through the center. BSection One/BPassage 1 What determines the rate of exchange between currencies will be examined later in this book let, but first it is useful to consider the mechanics of international transactions. To enable a UK importer to pay his American supplier, for example, the facilities of two or more banks are used, firstly in handling the often complex documentation and secondly, through the foreign exchange market, in obtaining the currency required. At one time payments to and from other countries were made by bills of exchange; hence in part the term "exchange rate", which was maintained even though other methods of payment have largely superseded the bill of exchange. The British importer will probably need to pay his American supplier in dollars and his British bank can offer him several alternative methods of settlement. It can provide him with a bankers draft drawn in dollars. The bank is able to do this because it will have an account with another bank ( called a correspondent bank) in an American city and it simply issues a dollar cheque or draft drawn on that account. The British importer can then send this draft by airmail to the supplier. Since there is a danger that the draft may be lost or fall into the wrong hands, the safer and more normal method would be for the British bank to arrange for payment by mail transfer. Instructions are sent by airmail to the correspondent bank in the US to pay on behalf of its customer the required sum to the named recipient from the British banks dollar account. This mail transfer system is very flexible since the instructions for payment can he varied or elaborated to suit practically every kind of requirement.How many methods of settlement are mentioned in this passage when the British importer needs dollar to pay his American supplier ATwo.BOne.CThree.DSeveral. 8. Directions: In this section, you will hear ten short conversations. At the end of each conversation, a question will be asked about what was said. The conversation and question will be spoken only once. During the pause, you must read the four choices marked A, B, C, D, and decide which is the best answer. Then mark the corresponding letter on the ANSWER SHEET with a single line through the center. AIt is a plastic card.BPeople can lend it to others.CIt can carry- a line of credit ranging from several hundred to several thousand or more.DIt is very convenient. 9.Section One Directions: In this section, you will hear ten short statements. Each statement will be spoken only once. After each statement, there will be a pause. During the pause, you must read the four suggested answers marked A, B, C and D, and decide which is the best answer. Then mark the corresponding letter on the ANSWER SHEET with a single line through the center. 10.AThe bank had aggregate assets of USD80,200,000.BThe bank had aggregate assets of USD80,020,000.CThe bank had aggregate assets of USD8,200,000.DThe bank had aggregate assets of USD18,200,000. 11.ABecause she lost her bill.BBecause her bill didnt mature.CBecause she forgot the rules.DBecause her bill was not duly presented. 12.ACredit card customers are given a right to buy goods and services.BThe cardholder can buy goods and services within the credit limit.CNormally, banks will set different credit lines to different groups of cardholders.DEach month the cardholder receives a statement from the bank. 13.BSection One/B Directions: In this section, you will hear ten short statements. Each statement will be spoken only once. After each statement, there will be a pause. During the pause, you must read the four suggested answers marked A, B, C and D, and decide which is the best answer. Then mark the corresponding letter on the ANSWER SHEET with a single line through the center. AForward transactions is not of typical foreign exchange transactions.BTypical foreign exchange transactions occur in the spot or cash market.CForward transactions dont occur in the spot or cash market.DTypical foreign exchange transactions occur only in the spot market. 14. Directions: In this section, you will hear ten short conversations. At the end of each conversation, a question will be asked about what was said. The conversation and question will be spoken only once. During the pause, you must read the four choices marked A, B, C, D, and decide which is the best answer. Then mark the corresponding letter on the ANSWER SHEET with a single line through the center. AThe loan proposal.BHis repayment capability.CThe banks money.DHer own money. 15.BPassage Three/BAto balance risk and to get proper mix of investmentsBto achieve higher return from investmentsCto invest in blue chipsDto get back money before retirement 16.BPassage Two/BWhich of the following does not belong to current assetsAcashBaccount payableCaccount receivableDnote receivable 17. Directions: In this section, you will hear three short passages. At the end of each passage, you will hear some questions. The passages and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A, B, C and D. Then mark the corresponding letter on the ANSWER SHEET with a single line through the center. BPassage One/BAvery useful and convenientBuselessCa waste of moneyDnot popular 18. Directions: There are three passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them, there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. You should make the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on the ANSWER SHEET by drawing a single line through the center. BSection One/BPassage 1 What determines the rate of exchange between currencies will be examined later in this book let, but first it is useful to consider the mechanics of international transactions. To enable a UK importer to pay his American supplier, for example, the facilities of two or more banks are used, firstly in handling the often complex documentation and secondly, through the foreign exchange market, in obtaining the currency required. At one time payments to and from other countries were made by bills of exchange; hence in part the term "exchange rate", which was maintained even though other methods of payment have largely superseded the bill of exchange. The British importer will probably need to pay his American supplier in dollars and his British bank can offer him several alternative methods of settlement. It can provide him with a bankers draft drawn in dollars. The bank is able to do this because it will have an account with another bank ( called a correspondent bank) in an American city and it simply issues a dollar cheque or draft drawn on that account. The British importer can then send this draft by airmail to the supplier. Since there is a danger that the draft may be lost or fall into the wrong hands, the safer and more normal method would be for the British bank to arrange for payment by mail transfer. Instructions are sent by airmail to the correspondent bank in the US to pay on behalf of its customer the required sum to the named recipient from the British banks dollar account. This mail transfer system is very flexible since the instructions for payment can he varied or elaborated to suit practically every kind of requirement.Why is the British bank able to offer its customer a bankers draft drawn in dollar AIts US correspondent bank prefers to make the payment.BIt will send dollar in cash by airmail.CIt has a dollar account with another bank in an American city where the beneficiary lives.DIts customer has a dollar account with it. 19.Passage 2 Once you own an option, there are three methods that can be used to make a profit or avoid loss : exercise it, offset it with another option, or let it expire worthless. By exercising an option you have purchased, you are choosing to take delivery of (call) or to sell (put) the underlying asset at the options strike price. Only option buyers have the choice to exercise an option. Option sellers, on the other hand, may experience having an option assigned to an option holder and subsequently exercised. Offsetting is a method of reversing the original transaction to exit the trade. If you bought a call, you have to sell the call with the same strike price and expiration. If you sold a call, you have to buy a call with the same strike price and expiration. If you bought a put, you have to sell a put with the same strike price and expiration. If you sold a put you have to buy a put with the same strike price and expiration. If you do not offset your position, then you have not officially exited the trade. If an option has not been offset or exercised by expiration, the option expires worthless. If you originally sold an option, then you want it to expire worthless because then you get to keep the credit you received from the option premium. Since an option seller wants an option to expire worthless, the passage of time is an option sellers friend and an option buyers enemy. If you bought an option, the premium is nonrefundable even if you let the option expire worthless. As an option gets closer to expiration, it decreases in value. It is important to note that most options traded on U.S. exchanges are American style options. In essence, they differ from European options in one main way. American style options can be exercised at any time up until expiration. In contrast, European style options can be exercised only on the day they expire. All the options of one type (put or call) which have the same underlying security are called a class of options. For example, all the calls on IBM constitute an option class. All the options that are in one class and have the same strike price are called an option series._ have the option to exercise the option. AOnly option sellersBOnly option buyersCBoth the option sellers and buyersDOnly the exchanges 20.ADocumentary credit.BDocumentary collection.CPayment in advance.DOpen account.