外贸英语平时作业（一）

一、词组翻译          20%

1.     全球化                   2.        资本流动               3.        权力下放               4.        世贸组织

5.     银行系统               6.        制成品                   7.        批发交易               8.        经济繁荣

9.     国内生产总值        10.        生活水平               11.        期货合同               12.        佣金

13.    标准合同条款        14.        货主                      15.        市场调研员            16.        信用证

17.    发票                      18.        空白背书               19.        受货人                   20.        检验证书

二、填空              20%

(marks, port, buyer, license, contract terms, description, payment, price, be signed, arrangements)

One of the documents presented by an exporter to his        is the commercial invoice, which summarizes      , and declares that      have been made in accordance with them. It contains, first of all, the names and addresses of the seller and the buyer; next, a full       of the goods dispatched, including the weights and numbers and       of all the packages; thirdly, the       per unit and the total cost of the consignment. The invoice will also state the        of shipment and the date, the terms of sale, such as C.I.F., and the terms of        , such as by sight draft, perhaps under a letter of credit. Finally it must        by an authorized employee of the seller, and it may even quote import or export        numbers.

三、英译中            30%

1. There is no country in the world that can produce all the products it needs. Thus countries join in international division of labor for effective production and reproduction. Sometimes a country can buy goods and services form abroad on a barter basis. Barter means doing business by exchanging goods of one sort for goods of another sort without using money. Barter trade itself is not enough to meet a country's import needs. But as a form of international trade, it is still attractive in developing countries where foreign exchange is in short supply and inflow of foreign funds is far from sufficient to meet their obligations in external trade.

2. Development economics, born after World War II, came into being in an era when strong and autonomous states were the chief decision makers. Globalization has circumscribed the ability of many central governments to raise revenues by taxing corporations, which now have the option of moving part or all of their economic activity to low-tax venues. As central governments find themselves looking for other sources of revenue, regional and urban communities are coming together to assert their own interests, putting yet more pressure on the traditional forms of governance. The result has been new ways of thinking about how to manage the world's economies and a corresponding need to create new institutions to do so.

3. There are many ways of selling manufactured goods to foreign buyers. A manufacturer may sell direct to wholesalers and maintain his own traveling representatives, or set up his own offices or companies abroad. Alternatively he may sell to an export merchanting house; in this case there is little financial risk for the producer, since the merchant acts as a principal and pays for the goods himself. A third possibility is for the manufacturer to appoint foreign agents, who will work on commission and may be stockists. In this case, goods may be sent on consignment, unsold, and the agent is expected to obtain the best price available; but this practice is more common with produce exports.

四、问答题            30%

1. When can the buyer receive his goods from the shipping company?

2. What is a letter of credit?

3. How are tea and wool sold?

4. According to ISIC, what categories do services usually include?

5. What are manufactured products? Please name some of them.

6. Are globalization and localization completely countervailing forces? Why or why not? And give examples.