2013年职称英语考试辅导补全短文-Gross National Product (GNP).docVIP

2013年职称英语考试辅导补全短文Gross National Product (GNP) 2013年职称英语考试报名也越来越近了，报名时间：11月中下旬至次年1月份(以当地人事考试部门公布的时间为准)，考试时间：2013年3月30日。下面是一些职称英语考试辅导资料，请大家参考！ Gross National Product (GNP) GNP is measure most often used to determine how well the economy is faring; government and business alike ____(1)____. What does GNP include? If the retail prices of all the goods and services produced during the year were added up， the figure arrived at would be the gross national product for that year. There are three different approaches to determining gross national product. All three will yield the same answer， because each is doing the same thing-measuring the total value of goods and services produced in the nation during the year. The first approach is totaling up the final market price of retail value of all production. This approach is easy to understand because it follows exactly the definition of GNP-the value of the nation′s production， or product， _____(2)_____. It is also possible to look at GNP from the point of view of goods and services bought rather than produced. This method is called the expenditures approach; it involves recording ____(3)____. About two-thirds of all expenditures in the marketplace are for consumer goods and services and are made by families buying to satisfy their needs. Economists call these household purchases personal consumption expenditures. The second largest buyer in the marketplace is government. Government at all level′s accounts for over one-fifth of total expenditures. Investment expenditures made by business account for most of the remaining purchases. Under this category are all purchases of capital goods (such as machinery and equipment)， all construction (including homes)， and the differences between inventories at the beginning of the year and at the end of the year. The final and smallest item in the expenditure approach is net foreign investment. The total for this category is calculated by adding together all the expenditures ____(4)____ and