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.
（3）处填（）
A.alone
B.only
C.along
D.lonely
参考答案：A
解析：
词义辨析题。alone意为“单独的”，修饰句中的last year，意思是“单单去年一年”。[B]only(只有)，位置常与alone不同，例如：Only he was in the secret. =He alone was in the secret. (只有他一人知道内情。)注意两者意思上的区别：(1)They alone sell cotton clothing(他们独一家卖布衣服。)(2)They only sell cotton clothing(他们只卖布衣服。)；[C]along意为“沿着”；选项[D]lonely意为“孤独的”。全句可译为：谁没有听说过中国令人惊讶的经济增长速度(每年8%)，颇具魅力的消费市场(12亿人口)和外国投资者的投资热情(仅去年一年就吸引高达400亿美元的外商直接投资)