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When the United States and Korea(SOK) announced their new free-trade agreement last month, the news was mainly economic. The deal would give American farmers and bankers alike better access to Korean consumers and help Korean companies push more electronics, cars and textiles into the United States. Largely unreported was the political angle—the U.S.-Korea(SOK) free trade agreement comes at precisely the moment when America's military presence on the Korean Peninsula is rapidly diminishing, anti-U.S. nationalism in Korea(SOK) is growing and China is playing an ever more important leadership role in the region. This FTA is much more significant in strategic than economic terms.

It is the same about any number of trade deals in Asia these days. While free-trade agreements have always been somewhat political, solidifying national relationships, the use of FTAs in geopolitical jockeying(竞赛) is reaching new heights in East Asia. Since 1997, the number of FTAs in the region has risen from seven to 38. Last time we saw this sort of frenzied bilateral activity was back in the 1930s. That worries some economists, who fear that all the free-trade politicking will further erode an already beleaguered global trading system, and create a snowball effect of countermeasures.

It's no accident that the activity in the region has increased since 2004, which marked the beginning of a massive free trade agreement between China and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. China offered countries like Laos and Cambodia an "early harvest", unilaterally opening up markets for hundreds of different kinds of agricultural products. That in turn helped smooth the way for a reduction in tension in hot spots like the disputed South China Sea territories. FTAs are becoming a key instrument for great-power diplomacy.

That worries rivals, who are rushing to find their own partners. The Japanese, for example, have always been cautious when it comes to bilateral agreements. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe recently announced a new push for more Japanese FTAs in the region. Meanwhile, the EU is trying desperately to push its way back into the region, recently announcing plans to negotiate its own deals with both South Korea and the ASEAN nations.

How will all the wheeling and dealing end? Not with more efficient trading. A recent map of Asian trade deals shows an increasingly complicated "spaghetti bowl" hindering broader global efforts to liberalize trade. Such deals have a disproportionately negative effect on small and medium-sized enterprises, representing as much as 80 percent of jobs in some parts of Asia. Already, the U.S.-Korea(SOK) deal is causing grousing(不满) in Japan, which would take a hit as Korean competitors no longer have. to deal with U.S. tariffs. Still, that probably won't turn the tide—the most important criterion in motivating a country to seek FTAs, well ahead of economic reform, was—surprise—politics.

By signing a new FTA with Korea(SOK), U.S. wishes to ______.

A．withdraw rapidly its military troops in Korea(SOK).

B．arouse pro-U.S. sentiments in Korea(SOK).

C．check the increasing significance of China there.

D．fulfill its magnifying global economic strategy.

Which country has not signed the free- trade agreement with Iraq?

A．Egypt.

B．Kuwait.

C．Syria.

D．Libya.

听力原文： Iraq has signed a free-trade agreement with three other Arab countries at the conclusion of an Arab Economic Union meeting in Baghdad, the first there since 1991.

The accord was signed Thursday by trade ministers from Iraq, Egypt, Syria and Libya. Officials say the free trade agreement is the first step towards establishing a common Arab market. Iraq is still under United Nations economic sanctions imposed after its 1990 invasion of Kuwait. Earlier this year, Iraq signed bilateral free trade agree-merits with Egypt and Syria.

Reuters news agency reports Iraq's imports from Arab nations makes up 50 percent of Baghdad's annual trade.

When was the free trade agreement assigned?

A．Tuesday.

B．Monday.

C．Thursday.

D．Friday.

In reality, the so-called "free trade agreements" may actually create their own barriers to a free market.

The correction to KG for longitudinal free surface effects for a vessel can be found by dividing the vessel's displacement into the ______．

A.Transverse free surface correction for the vessel

B.Sum of the vertical moments of the vessel

C.Sum of the longitudinal free surface moments of the vessel

D.Longitudinal centerline of the vessel

The free surface effects of a partially-full tank in a floating ship increase with the ().

A.surface area of the fluid in the tank

B.displacement volume of the ship

C.draft of the ship

D.height of the tank above the keel

听力原文： Chinese Ambassador to Japan Wang Yi called on the Japanese business community Friday to launch preparations for negotiations on a Japan-China free trade agreement. "Japan and China should start a private-sector study on a bilateral FTA," Wang said in an address to a seminar the Japan Productivity Center for Socio-Eco-heroic Development hosted in this central Japan summer resort. Chinese Vice Premier Wu Yi called for early bilateral FFA negotiations when she visited Japan in May. The ambassador urged the two countries to deepen their economic ties in order to improve overall relations. "Japan and China should urgently break the deadlock" that has gripped bilateral relations over the history issue, he said. Wang asked Japan to be prudent in dealing with the history issue. "China expects Japan to make decisions on its own and take appropriate steps." In this respect, he advised Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi to refrain from visiting Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine dedicated to some war criminals as well as the war dead. Japan has reflected on and apologized for its past invasion of China, Wang noted. "But some people's actions and remarks have run counter to such reflection."

What is the main idea for this passage?

A．Japanese Prime Minister Koizumi's visiting Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine.

B．Some Japanese people's actions and remarks towards the history.

C．The deadlock between China and Japan.

D．The promotion of a Japan-China free trade agreement.