填空题 Directions: In this section, you will hear a passage three times. When the passage is read for the first time, you should listen carefully for its general idea. When the passage is read for the second time, you are required to fill in the blanks numbered from 26 to 33 with the exact words you have just heard. For blanks numbered from 34 to 36 you are required to fill in the missing information. For these blanks, you can either use the exact words you have just heard or write down the main points in your own words. Finally, when the passage is read for the third time, you should check what you have written.
Fan Gang, director of the National Economic Research Institute, made the comment at a {{U}} {{U}} 1 {{/U}} {{/U}}forum organized by Globe, a{{U}} {{U}} 2 {{/U}} {{/U}}magazine run by Xinhua News Agency.
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Fan said the country's response to the financial crisis, including a 4-trillion-yuan stimulus package and a record budgeted deficit of 950 billion yuan ($139 billion) for 2009, would be {{U}} {{U}} 6 {{/U}} {{/U}}to sustain a certain growth despite the slowdown.
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China's GDP growth slowed to 9 percent in the third quarter of 2008, then slumped to 6.8 percent in the fourth quarter and{{U}} {{U}} 10 {{/U}} {{/U}}Economists and officials are expecting a higher growth for the second quarter, compared with that of the first quarter. The government{{U}} {{U}} 11 {{/U}} {{/U}}in mid July.