A-Level经济真题（11）

每年几十万出国读本科的留学生中选择经济、商科和会计专业的学生不在少数。很多学生在高中阶段A-level选课时，面对经济(Economics)、商科(Business Study)和会计(Accounting)三门课程常常会举棋不定，甚为纠结。

今天咱们就先来看看A-Level经济难度如何？

1.The graph below shows the annual percentage changein an economy’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) between 2000 and 2010, at 2000prices.

A. Unemployment will fall and the economy will grow below its trend rate

B. Employmentwill be stable and the economy will grow at its trend rate

C. Employmentwill rise and the economy will grow above its trend rate

D. Unemployment will increase and the growth ofthe economy will be below its trend rate  

2.Which one of the following is most likely tocontribute to an increase in inflation in an economy?

 A. A rise in the value of thecountry’s currency on the foreign exchange market

B. A growing positive output gap

C. A sustained increase inproductivity

D. A persistent recession in the economy 

3.Deflation is

A. a fall in the external value of the domesticcurrency.

B. a fall in the rate of inflation.

C. a loss in value of capital stockdue to physical wear and tear.

D. a rise in the real value of money over time. 

4.Which one of the following is most likely to be anexample of cyclical unemployment?

A. Gill losther job as a television engineer two months ago and is waiting to start a newjob next month.

B. Brian hasnot worked for 15 years since losing his job as a coal miner.

C. Hiteshlost his job as a construction worker six months ago when a recession led to adownturn in the construction industry.

D. Faith works in the hotel trade as a casualchef and spends November to April out of work.  

5.In the diagram below, a decline in consumerconfidence in an economy is represented by a leftward shift in its aggregatedemand curve from AD1 to AD2

As a result of the fall in aggregate demand, outputfalls from Y1 to Y2 and unemployment rises. The type of unemployment thatresults from this fall in demand is best described as

A. structural unemployment.

B. cyclical unemployment.

C. seasonal unemployment.

D. frictional unemployment.