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使用美国的银行承兑汇票融通资金，可以选择做融资的下列出口货运：

On 10 August, Bank of Asia, London received a cable despatched by Bank of Asia, Hangzhou inclusive of the following contents:

Total USD3, 400, 000. 00

(1)计算实际利率，确定是否可做银行承兑汇票(Banker's Acceptance, B/A)融资。

Bank of Asia, London telephoned Chemical Bank, London to enquire about all-in- rate on the same date which was 13.4% per annum. Another enquiry about LIBOR from Euro-dollar market has been made, the result was 14. go-/o for six months.

Whether such all-in-rate is available to create the banker's acceptance at 180 days？

Effective annual rate =

As the effective annual rate at ______ was ______ than LIBOR at ______, Bank of Asia, London would apply for the creation of eligible banker's acceptance.

(2)亚(洲银)行伦敦分行折算后认为可以叙做B/A，于8月10日发电给化学银行伦敦分行，请它转电该行纽约分行，将两笔货运金额融资，并请承兑和贴现，将净款贷记亚行账户。

Bank of Asia, London selected some of the above exportation with ETA exceeding 5 days as from 10 Aug., to be available to B/A, and made a telex advice of application for B/A dated 10 Aug., at 180 days to Chemical Bank, London as follows：

FROM：__________________

TO： __________________

TEST 2476 WE CONFIRM TODAY'S USD BANKER'S ACCEPTANCE TRANSACTION OF USD ______ VALUE 10 AUG. FOR ______ DAYS AT ______ PER ANNUM PLEASE INSTRUCT YOUR NEW YORK OFFICE TO FILL OUT OUR PRESIGNED BANK DRAFT ACCEPTED AND DISCOUNTED AND ______ NET PROCEEDS AMOUNTING TO USD ______ TO OUR ACCOUNT WITH THEM STOP

THIS FINANCING COVERS THE FOLLOWING TRANSACTIONS

WE ALSO CONFIRM THAT GOODS ARE IN CHANNEL OF TRADE NO OTHER FINANCING IS INVOLVED WITH THE TRANSACTION AT MATURITY ______ WE SHALL PAY FACE AMOUNT TO YOU TO LIQUIDATE THIS OUTSTANDING ACCEPTANCE.

(3)承兑行代为填写预签汇票，制成承兑和可贴现汇票。化学银行纽约分行当天回电致其伦敦分行确认承兑、贴现，并将净款贷记在亚行伦敦分行账户上。

Please fill out a presigned blank draft with the following particulars:

dates of draft and of acceptance: 10 Aug.

amount: USD3,000,000.00

No. of draft: 101

drawee: Chemical Bank, New York

drawer: Bank of Asia, London

payee: Chemical Bank

tenor: at 180 days after sight

exportation of silk and piece goods from China to Tunis and Egypt

On 10 Aug., Chemical Bank, New York replied to their London office for relay to Bank of Asia, London by telex, confirming that the net proceeds have been credited to Bank of Asia, London's account maintained with them.

FROM: CHEMICAL BANK, NEW YORK

TO: CHEMICAL BANK, LONDON

MESSAGE FOR BANK OF ASIA, LONDON

WE HAVE ACCEPTED AND DISCOUNTED DRAFT NO. 101 NET PROCEEDS

USD ______ BEING SAME DAY FUNDS CREDITED YOUR ACCOUNT

(4)亚行伦敦分行电传给化学银行伦敦分行，请它通知其纽约分行将净款付给纽约渣打银行。

On 11 Aug., Bank of Asia, London telexed Chemical Bank, London to instruct their New York Office to transfer the net proceeds for the credit of Standard Chartered Bank, New York.

FROM：__________________

TO: __________________

MESSAGE FOR CHEMICAL BANK, NEW YORK

VALUE 10 AUG. PLEASE ______ OUR ACCOUNT WITH OUR NEW

YORK OFFICE AND PAY ______________________________

FOR THE ______ OF OUR ACCOUNT WITH THEM AMOUNTING USD

______.

(5)亚行伦敦分行贷款300万美元给布鲁塞尔的布(鲁塞尔)行，并从纽约渣打银行拨款给布行。

On 12 Aug., Bank of Asia, London has made a loan to Banque de Bruxelles, S.A. Brussels for the amount of USD3,000,000.00 at 14.9% per annum valued on 12 Aug., matured at 6 Feb., with a loan period of 178 days. They have telexed Standard Chartered Bank, New York to pay the said amount to Manufacturers Hanover Trust Co., New York for the credit of the account of Banque de Bruxelles.

FROM: ________________________

TO： ________________________

TEST 1552 VALUE ______ PLEASE ______

OUR ACCOUNT AND PAY __________________

__________________ FOR THE ____________

OF THE ACCOUNT OF BANQUE DE BRUXELLES USD ______

______

(6)布鲁塞尔的布行寄送借款确认书给亚行伦敦分行。

Banque de Bruxelles, S.A. Brussels sent a confirmation of borrowing to Bank of Asia, London with some items in blank to be filled in a8 follows:

Confirmation of Borrowing

To Bank of Asia, London Date 12 Aug.

Date of borrowing ______ Amount ______

Maturity ______ Interest rate at ______

Interest amount ______

In our favour with

Manufacturers Hanover Trust Co., New York

Liquidation at maturity ______

Total amount to be paid ______

Payment through

Manufacturers Hanover Trust Co., New York

With Standard Chartered Bank, New York

Banque de Bruxelles, Brussels

signature

(7)布行在到期日发出电传给纽约汉华银行将贷款本息还给亚行伦敦分行。

At maturity, Banque de Bruxelles, Brussels telexed Manufacturers Hanover Trust Co., New York to refund the principal and interest of the loan to Bank of Asia, London.

FROM: ________________________

TO: ________________________

VALUE ______ PLEASE ______ OUR ACCOUNT AND PAY

______ TO THE STANDARD CHARTERED BANK NEW YORK FOR

______ OF THE ACCOUNT OF ______ WITH THEM

(8)在银行承兑汇票到期日，亚行伦敦分行发出电传给纽约渣打银行付款 300万美元。

On due date Bank of Asia, London telexed the Standard Chartered Bank, New York to pay USD3,000,000.00 to Chemical Bank, New York to liquidate the outstanding acceptance.

FROM: ______________________________

TO: ______________________________

VALUE ______ PLEASE ______ OUR ACCOUNT AND PAY

______ TO ______ FOR ______ TO THEIR ______

ACCOUNT TO LIQUIDATE OUR BANKER'S ACCEPTANCE NO. ______

MATURING AT ______.

(9)计算亚行伦敦分行发放贷款获得的利润(利息差额收益)。

Bank of Asia, London has obtained profit of interest difference between the rates of loan and B/A as follows:

Loan interest amount: USD ______

B/A discount and acceptance charges: USD ______

______________________________

Profit of interest difference: USD ______

We trust that you will find our goods ______ .

A．attracting B．to be attractive

C．attract your attention D．attractive

A.A.satisfying

B.B.satisfactory

C.C.satisfaction

D.D.satisfy

A.A.claim, claimed

B.B.claimed, claimed

C.C.claim, claim

D.D.claimed, claim

Paras. 11-13

If you live with other people, their temporary absence can be refreshing. Solitude will end on Thursday. If today I use a singular personal pronoun to refer to myself, next week I will use the plural form. While the others are absent you can stretch out your soul until it fills up the whole room, and use your freedom, coming and going as you please without apology, staying up late to read, soaking in the bath, eating a whole pint of ice cream at one sitting, moving at your own pace. Those absent will be back. Their waterproof winter coats are in the closet and the dog keeps watching for them at the window. But when you live alone, the temporary absence of your friends and acquaintances leaves a vacuum; they may never come back.

The condition of loneliness rises and falls, but the need to talk goes on forever. It's more basic than needing to listen. Oh, we all have friends we can tell important things to, people we can call to say we lost our job or fell on a slippery floor and broke our arm. It's the daily succession of small complaints and observations and opinions that backs up and chokes us. We can't really call a friend to say we got a parcel from our sister, or it's getting dark earlier now, or we don't trust that new Supreme Court justice.

Scientific surveys show that we who live alone talk at length to ourselves and our pets and the television. We ask the cat whether we should wear the blue suit or the yellow dress. We ask the parrot if we should prepare steak, or noodles, for dinner. We argue with ourselves over who is the greater sportsman: that figure skater or this skier. There's nothing wrong with this. It's good for us, and a lot less embarrassing than the woman in front of us in line at the market who's telling the cashier that her niece Melissa may be coming to visit on Saturday, and Melissa is very fond of hot chocolate, which is why she bought the powdered hot chocolate mix, though she never drinks it herself.

If you live with other people, ________________________. (Para. 11)

When you live alone: ________________________. (Para. 11)

Supporting details: We need to talk to others. ________________________. (Para. 12)

Supporting details: People who live alone will behave ridiculously: ________________________. (Para. 13)

From paragraph 4 we can infer that _______ .

A the increasing concentration is certain to hurt consumers

B WorldCom serves as a good example of both benefits and costs

C the costs of the gobalization process are enormous

D the Standard Oil trust might have threatened competition

Part A

Directions: Read the following four texts. Answer the questions below each text by choosing A, B, C or D. (40 points)

When, in the age of automation, man searches for a worker to do the tedious, unpleasant jobs that are more or less impossible to mechanize, he may very profitably consider the ape.

If we tackled the problem of breeding for brains with as much enthusiasm as we devote to breeding dogs of surrealistic shapes, we could eventually produce assorted models of useful primates, ranging in size from the gorilla down to the baboon, each adapted to a special kind of work. It is not putting too much strain on the imagination to assume that geneticists could produce a super-ape, which is able to understand some scores of words and capable of being trained for such jobs as picking fruit, cleaning up the litter in parks, shining shoes, collecting garbage, doing household chores and even baby-sitting, although I have known some babies I would not care to trust with a valuable ape.

Apes could do many jobs, such as cleaning streets and the more repetitive types of agricultural work, without supervision, though they might need protection from those egregious specimens of Home sapiens who think it amusing to tease or bully anything they consider lower on the evolutionary ladder. For other tasks, such as delivering papers and laboring on the docks, our man-ape would have to work under human overseers; and, incidentally, I would love to see the finale of the twenty-first century version of On the Waterfront in which the honest but hairy hero will drum on his chest after—literally—taking the wicked labor leader apart.

Once a supply of nonhuman workers becomes available, a whole range of low IQ jobs could be thankfully given up by mankind, to its great mental and physical advantage. What is more, one of the problems which has annoyed so many fictional Utopias would be avoided: There would be none of the degradingly subhuman Epsilons of Huxley's Brave New World to act as a permanent reproach to society, for there is a profound moral difference between breeding sub-men and super-apes, though the end products are much the same. The first would introduce a form. of slavery, but the second would be a biological triumph which could benefit both men and animals.

Notes:

surrealistic超现实的

primate灵长类动物

gorilla大猩猩

baboon狒狒

chore杂活

care to do sth. (常用于否定句)(=willing to do or agree to do sth.)愿意做某事

trust A with B把B托付给A

egregious (通常指坏人或坏事)异乎寻常的，突出的

Home sapiens人类

finale n.结局

Epsilons 奴隶人名

assorted各色各样的

Utopia乌托邦，理想主义

According to the text, the ape should be considered for certain jobs

A．only if it is able to understand scores of words.

B．which do not require any intelligence at all.

C．that are not suitable for human hands to tackle.

D．which are boring and cannot be tackled with machines.

From paragraph 4, we can infer that ______.

A．the increasing concentration is certain to hurt consumers

B．World Com serves as a good example of both benefits and costs

C．the costs of the globalization process are enormous

D．the Standard Oil trust might have threatened competition

The writer can' t fully trust e-shopping because____

A．a few e-shoppers sell low-quality goods and cheat customers of money

B．the goods In e-shops are too expensive for customers to buy

C．there are few choices of necessities for people to make

D．some people have turned to a new platform. for e-shopping