Passage 1
China Leaps Towards Top 10 Traders
Chinese see early GATT membership as one way of dealing with bilateral pressures from its main trading partners—the US, Japan and Germany—all of which are restive about their yawning trade gaps with China.
US trade representatives are also reporting that China is making a special effort to discuss new projects. Since the end of 1989，American businessmen have been returning to China with "zest", according to a US official.
But the larger deals in the petrochemical, power and transport sectors will take time to bring to fruition. In the meantime, the Chinese continue rapidly to expand and improve the range and the quality of their exports.
Progress made by China in the past decade is impressive. A decade ago, China ranked 20th as a world trader. Then exports of $ 18bn represented 4 per cent of Gross Domestic Product （ GDP）and less than one per cent of world trade. Projected exports this year of $ lOObn would represent 20 per cent of China's GDP and more than 2.5 per cent of world trade.
The growing sophistication of Chinese products is also reflected in the shift towards exports of manufactured items from 50 per cent in 1980 to 80 per cent last year. While China's success owes much to cheap labour costs-textiles and footwear accounted for one third of 1992's $85bn in exports-exports of machinery, electronic products and transport equipment are the fastest growing areas.
China is an early member of GATT.
A、正确
B、错误
【正确答案】：A
【名师解析】:根据文章内容，中国在过去十年中取得了显著的贸易进步，从一个世界贸易排名20位的国家跃升为接近前十的贸易大国。文章提到中国视早期加入GATT（关贸总协定）为应对其主要贸易伙伴——美国、日本和德国——的压力的一种方式，这些国家对中国不断扩大的贸易逆差感到不安。此外，美国贸易代表报告称，中国正在积极讨论新的项目，并且自1989年底以来，美国商人以极大的热情重返中国市场。
文章还指出，尽管在石油化工、电力和交通等大型领域的交易需要时间才能成熟，但中国仍在迅速扩大和提高其出口产品的种类和质量。中国出口的增长不仅表现在数量上，还表现在产品复杂性的提高上，从1980年的50%制造业产品出口增长到去年的80%。尽管中国的成功在很大程度上归功于低廉的劳动力成本，例如纺织品和鞋类占1992年850亿美元出口的三分之一，但机械、电子产品和运输设备的出口增长最快。
最后，文章明确指出"China is an early member of GATT."（中国是GATT的早期成员），这与题目中的陈述相符，因此正确答案是选项A。
