The China boom is by now a well-documented phenomenon. Who hasn’t (1) the Middle Kingdom’s astounding economic growth (8 percent annually), its mesmerizing (2) market (1.2 billion people), the investment ardor of foreign suitors ($40 billion in foreign direct investment last year (3) ) China is an economic juggernaut. (4) Nicholas Lardy of the Brookings Institution, a Washington D. C.-based think tank,
" No country has (5) its foreign trade as fast as China over the last 20 years. Japan (6) its foreign trade over a 20-year period; China’s foreign trade as quintupled. They’ve become the pre-eminent producer of labor-intensive (7) goods in the world " . But there’s been (8) from the dazzling China growth story—namely, the Chinese multinational. No major Chinese companies have (9) established themselves, or their brands, (10) the global stage. But as Haier shows, that is starting to change. (11) 100 years of poverty and chaos, of being overshadowed by foreign countries and multinationals, Chinese industrial companies are starting to (12) on the world.A new generation of large and credible firms has (13) in China in the electronics, appliance and even high-tech sectors. Some have reached critical mass on the mainland and are now (14) new outlets for their production—through exports and by building Chinese factories abroad, chiefly in Southeast Asia. One example: China’s investment in Malaysia (15) from $8 million in 2000 to $766 million in the first half of this year. (16) China’s export prowess, it will be years (17) Chinese firms achieve the managerial and operational expertise of Western and Japanese multinationals. For one thing, many of its best companies are still at least partially state-owned. (18) , China has a shortage of managerial talent and little notion of marketing and brand-building. Its companies are also (19) by the country’s long tradition of central planning, inefficient use of capital and antiquated distribution system, (20) makes building national companies a challenge.
（9）处填（）
A.still
B.to
C.yet
D.been
参考答案：C
解析：
语法题。yet是时间副词，意为“现在之前”，常用于否定句或疑问句，与现在完成时连用时，指的是过去的动作对现在仍有影响，例如：I haven’t yet finished my homework. 根据原文的意思，中国的大公司没有在世界经济舞台上为它们自身或它们的品牌确立地位。这是中国经济比较薄弱的、欠缺的东西，故选择表示“尚有待于(完善的)”意思的副词，即选项[C]yet正确。其他选项：[A]still和[B]to与established搭配表达不当；[D]been established语态及意思均不符合。