2022年河南省信阳市考研外语真题一卷含答案

2022年河南省信阳市考研外语真题一卷（含答案）学校:________ 班级:________ 姓名:________ 考号:________一、2.Reading Comprehension(10

2022年河南省信阳市考研外语真题一卷 （含答案） :________ :________ :________ :________ 学校班级姓名考号 2.Reading Comprehension(10) 一、题 1. The phrase "highly charged" (Paragraph 2) most probably means______. A.extremely free B.highly responsible C.very cheerful D.full of mobility and change 2.AMERICA'S central bank sent aclear message this week. For the second consecutive meeting, the Federal Open Market Committee, the central bank's policy-making committee, left short-term interest rates unchanged at 1.75%. But it said that the risks facing the economy had shifted from economic weakness to abalance between weakness and excessive growth. This shift surprised no one. But it has convinced many people that interest rates are set to rise again—and soon. Judging by prices in futures markets, investors are betting that short-term interest rates could start rising as early as May, and will be 1.25 percentage points higher by the end of the year. That may be excessive. Economists at Goldman Sachs, who long argued that the central bank would do nothing this year, now expect short-term rates to go up only 0.75% this year, starting in June. But virtually everyone reckons some Fed tightening is in the offing. The reason? After an unprecedented 11 rate-cuts in 2001, short-term interest rates are abnormally low. As the signs of robust recovery multiply, analysts expect the Fed to take back some of the rate-cuts it used as an "insurance policy" after the September 11th terrorist attack. They think there will be agradual move from the Fed's current "accommodative" monetary stance to amore neutral policy. And a neutral policy, many argue, ultimately implies short-term interest rates of around 4%. Logical enough. But higher rates could still be further off, particularly if the recovery proves less robust than many hope. Certainly, recent