A-Level经济是一门研究社会如何使用世界资源的学科,向学生介绍构成经济世界的概念、理论以及发生的各种问题。
对于计划从事金融和经济行业的学生来说,是一门非常重要的学科。
1.A free good has which one of the followingcharacteristics?
A. It has noopportunity cost in supply.
B. It is generally supplied by the government because itsconsumption is considered to be socially desirable.
C. It has no externalities associated with its consumptionor production.
D. It is in perfectly inelastic supply.
2.The demand for capital goods such as plant and machinery is said to be anexample of derived demand because the demand for capital goods depends on
A. the productivity of capital goods.
B. the volume of consumer goodspurchased.
C. the price of capital goods.
D. the amount oflabour employed by a firm.
3.Which one of the following is used to measure inequality in thedistribution of income?
A. The size of the employed labour force.
B. The value of the Gini coefficient.
C. The size of the income multiplier.
D. The marginal rate ofincome tax.
4.The diagram shows the relationship between different countries’ GiniCoefficients and their income per head.
What is implied by the curve?
A. Income distributionis more equal in rich countries than in poor countries.
B. Income distributionis more unequal in rich countries than in poor countries.
C. Economic growth isaccompanied by increasing inequality in the early stages and to increasing equalityin the later stages of economic development.
D. Economic growth isaccompanied by increasing equality in the early stages and to increasinginequality in the later stages of economic development.
5.The rate of economic growth in China has led tomore factories and infrastructure being built on land that could have been usedfor houses.
The demand for land in China can best bedescribed as:
A. complementary
B. composite
C. derived
D. joint