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Question 1

上世纪五十年代，当时年轻的Alan通过监测货运车厢车流来提前预估钢铁产量。

Answer 1

In the 1950s a young Alan Greenspan monitored
freight car traffic to arrive at early estimates of
steel production

(arrive at的用法；arrive at a conclusion)

货运车厢;车皮 On a train, a freight car is a large container in which goods are transported.

Question 2

竞争优势

Answer 2

Ever since Walmart pioneered （占领先机） supply chain management in the 1980s private sector
bosses have seen timely data as a source of competitive advantage.

Question 3

说央行是在瞎子摸象，似乎也没有很夸张。

Answer 3

It is only a slight exaggeration to say that central banks are flying blind.
（slight; fly blind是说单凭仪表操纵进行盲目飞行，靠仪器控制飞行；瞎说一气，瞎搞一通）

Question 4

降息

刚开始经济衰退

Answer 4

The financial crisis would have been a lot less harmful had the Federal Reserve cut interest rates to near zero in December 2007, when America entered recession

Question 5

数据不完整

腐败的银行

Answer 5

Patchy data about a vast informal economy and rotten banks have made it harder for India’s policymakers to end their country ’s lost decade of low growth.

（这个lost decade是啥意思鸭）

Question 6

欧元区

重新回到经济衰退状态

Answer 6

The European Central Bank wrongly raised interest rates in 2011 amid a temporary burst of inflation, sending the euro area back into recession.

Question 7

促进了改革

Answer 7

The pandemic has , however, become a catalyst for change .