首页economisteconomist考试真题

economist

英 [ɪ'kɒnəmɪst] 美[ɪ'kɑnəmɪst]
  • n. 经济学者;节俭的人

考试真题


Sugar, alcohol and tobacco, economist Adam Smith once wrote, are commodities which are nowhere necessaries of life, which have become objects of almost universal consumption, and which are, therefore, extremely popular subjects of taxation.

出自-2016年12月阅读原文

Economist Carl Weinberg believes the negative effects of plunging oil prices are overwhelming the positive effects of cheaper oil.

出自-2016年12月阅读原文

It is the concern of contemporary economists.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

As I began to read about scientists, economists, and philosophers, I started imagining myself in their shoes.

出自-2015年12月听力原文

Mark Zandi, an economist at Moody's Economy.com, predicts that the recession will shrink America's economy by 3.5% in total.

出自-2013年6月阅读原文

It concerns not only us sociologists, but also economists, politicians and business people.

出自-2017年6月听力原文

Economists' failure to detect the problems in time.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

Economists project that most employers would shift money from expensive health benefits into wages.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

It was in a free fall, and it was a veryscary period, economist Martin Neil Baily said.

出自-2016年6月听力原文

The dialogue is changing from what is technologically possible to what is technologically meaningful, said economist Shawn Du Bravac.

出自-2016年12月阅读原文

So what factors, at the community level, do predict if poor children will move up the economic ladder as adults? What explains, for instance, why the Salt Lake City metro area is one of the 100 largest metropolitan areas most likely to lift the fortunes of the poor and the Atlanta metro area is one of the least likely?Harvard economist Raj Chetty has pointed to economic and racial segregation, community density, the size of a community's middle class, the quality of schools, community religiosity, and family structure, which he calls the single strongest correlate of upward mobility.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

A number of prominent economists have also argued that it's harder for the poor to climb the economic ladder today because the rungs(横档) in that ladder have grown farther apart.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

A new study by Cornell economists Francine Blau and Lawrence Kahn gives an explanation.

出自-2014年6月阅读原文

Swedish economists Magnus Henrekson and Mikael Stenkula addressed the following question in their 2009study:why are there so few female top executives in the European egalitarian(平等主义的)welfare states

出自-2014年6月阅读原文

in Western Europe, reports economist Robert Stein in the journal National Affairs.

出自-2013年12月阅读原文

But economists who study the relationship between money and happiness have consistently found that, above a certain income, the two do not reliably correlate.

出自-2013年12月阅读原文

As the Indian economist Amartya Sen has wisely said, "The invisible hand of the market has often relied heavily on the visible hand of government.

出自-2012年6月阅读原文

David Card, an economist at UC Berkeley, notes that the ones who profit most directly from immigrants' low-cost labor are businesses and employers – meatpacking plants in Nebraska, for instance, or agricultural businesses in California.

出自-2011年6月阅读原文

Yet the consensus among most economists is that immigration, both legal and illegal, provides a small net boost to the economy.

出自-2011年6月阅读原文

But when all those factors are put together and the economists calculate the numbers, it ends up being a net positive, but a small one

出自-2011年6月阅读原文

Whether immigrants are good or bad for the economy has been puzzling economists.

出自-2011年6月阅读原文

The consensus among economists is that immigration should not be encouraged

出自-2011年6月阅读原文

The general public thinks differently from most economists on the impact of immigration.

出自-2011年6月阅读原文

Even economists can't reach a consensus about its impact

出自-2011年6月阅读原文

Are many economists involved in this field?

出自-2013年6月听力原文

In the 1990s, many economists began to look at chaos theory as a way of providing models for forecasting

出自-2013年6月听力原文

It reflected the opinions of most economists.

出自-2013年6月听力原文

Andy Holder—the chief economist at The Bank of England—suggested that the UK move towards a government-backed digital currency.

2017年6月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section C

Harvard economist Raj Chetty has pointed to economic and racial segregation, community density, the size of a community's middle class, the quality of schools, community religiosity, and family structure, which he calls the "single strongest correlate of

2015年12月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C

In an interview last year with The Economist, George Whitesides, chief executive of space-tourism firm virgin Galactic, was placing his company in the latter category.

2015年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C

"The dialogue is changing from what is technologically possible to what is technologically meaningful, " said economist Shawn Du Bravac.

2016年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

The relationship between formal education and economic growth in poor countries is widely misunderstood by economists and politicians alike.

出自-2009年考研阅读原文

At a time when Thomas Piketty and other economists are warning of rising inequality and the increasing power of inherited wealth, it is bizarre that wealthy aristocratic families should still be the symbolic heart of modern democratic states.

出自-2015年考研阅读原文

There is one and only one social responsibility of business,” wrote Milton Friedman, a Nobel prize-winning economist, “That is, to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits.”

出自-2016年考研阅读原文

"Short-termism" or the desire for quick profits, has worsened in publicly traded companies, says the Bank of England's top economist Andrew Haldane.

2019年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

The research of till Von Wachter, the economist in Columbia University, suggests that not all people graduating into a recession see their life chances dimmed: those with degrees from elite universities catch up fairly quickly to where they otherwise woul

2012年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ