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

游客2024-04-25  2
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] Who might be the first to find the British construction sector recovering?
选项 A、Civil engineers.
B、House builders.
C、Commercial construction firms.
D、Economists.
答案 B
解析 细节辨认题。第一段第一句说明英国建筑业的复苏势头强劲，定位句接着指出站在本行业复苏前沿的是房屋建造商，因为他们的行业活动增长速度为近十年之最。题干中的the first意指定位句中的at theforefront of，辨认出此细节即可知正确答案为B)。A)“土木工程师”和C)“商业建筑公司”在第二段第一句中出现，他们虽也有良好的发展表现，但also一词表明这两项不是题干要求的the first，故排除；D)“经济学家”起的作用是观察、评价经济现象，虽说他们也会通过一些数据总结、发现建筑业的复苏现象，但他们的发现是间接的，当然比不上直接体验自己行业发展的房屋建造商，故排除。
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