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Britain’s construction sector has enjoyed its strongest pick-up in business

游客2023-08-24  62
问题     Britain’s construction sector has enjoyed its strongest pick-up in business since before the financial crisis plunged the industry deep into recession, according to the latest in a string of upbeat economic reports. House builders were at the forefront of the sector’s resurgence(复苏)as they saw activity grow at the fastest pace for a decade last month, according to the Markit/CIPS UK Construction PMI.
    Civil engineers and commercial construction firms also helped the sector claw back some of the ground lost during its slump and companies across the sector took on more staff as new work flowed in. The survey’s headline activity index rose more than expected to 62.6 after 59.4 in October. That marked the seventh month of growth and beat a forecast for a slowdown to 59 in a Reuters poll of economists.
    "Construction activity continues to spring back to life during the final months of 2013," said Tim Moore, senior economist at survey compilers Markit. "That said, construction growth is still coming from a low base as output levels rebound from a deep and prolonged double-dip recession that only really ended this summer. "
    While economists and policymakers will want to see the survey’s rosy picture confirmed in official data in coming months, it is a welcome boost to chancellor George Osborne as he prepares to present his autumn statement plans for growth, spending and taxes.
    The construction report follows a much stronger than expected Markit survey from the manufacturing sector, which makes up around a tenth of the UK economy. That poll suggested new orders were growing at the fastest pace for 20 years and that manufacturers were creating 5 000 new jobs a month.
    In the smaller construction sector, there were also multi-year highs in key fields. Output, employment and new work all rose at their fastest pace since 2007. Anecdotal(轶事的)evidence from the survey, which is sent to some 170 construction companies, suggested business was being helped by rising confidence in the economic outlook and improving credit conditions. Confidence among builders about the business outlook was the highest for four years.
    Howard Archer, economist at IHS Global Insight commented:"The construction sector does now seem to be enjoying decent, and increasingly broad-based, recovery following extended, deep weakness. "
    Of critical importance to the construction sector going forward is that the economy holds up well over the coming months and that housing market activity sees sustained healthy(but not excessive)growth. The first stage of the government’s Help to Buy initiative has been particularly welcome for house builders. [br] What role does the manufacturing sector play in British economy?
选项 A、It accounts for a large proportion in British construction sector.
B、British economy is overwhelmed by new manufacturers.
C、Manufacturing sector, developing fast unprecedentedly, is influential.
D、Hit by economic crisis, manufacturing sector is shrinking gradually.
答案 C
解析 细节推断题。定位段第一句中，which引导的定语从句表明制造业约占英国经济的十分之一，由此可以推断出制造业颇具影响力；而第二句中的两个数字20和5 000也表明制造业前所未有的发展势头。因此，答案为C)。A)所属关系混乱，制造业占整个英国经济的十分之一，而不是占建筑业很大比重，故排除；B)夸大了制造业的作用，不能因为“制造商每月创造5 000个新的就业岗位”就推断出“英国经济行业中充斥着新的制造者”，故排除。D)与文章主题相悖，定位段说明制造业发展迅速，而D)却说“制造业由于受经济危机影响正在逐渐萎缩”，故排除。
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