Economic problems were exacerbated by three bad harvests with the result that national income and the volume of foreign trade contracted during 1960—1962.(     )

A. exaggerated                                                

B. celebrated   

C. worsened                                                    

D. facilitated

The following year, a tax law for joint venture was promulgated.(     )

A. announced                                                  

B. prolonged   

C. transformed                                                

D. upgraded

Growing ties between China’s traders and their partners in Taiwan and Hong Kong are creating an unofficial but formidable “greater China” trade bloc.(     )

A. formal                                                       

B. powerful    

C. fundamental      

D. rational

The index of nonoil primary commodity prices in nominal dollar terms declines for the third consecutive year, and the index in real terms hits an all-time low.(     )

A. communicative                                           

B. intensive    

C. selective     

D. successive

This push to expand U.S. manufacturing exports is considered essential politically to fulfill the President’s promise.(     )

A. promotion                                                  

B. purpose      

C. pressure                                                     

D. pull