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Britain’s construction sector has enjoyed its strongest pick-up in business
Britain’s construction sector has enjoyed its strongest pick-up in business
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2024-04-25
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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] Why did Tim Moore think that British construction sector has a rather weak economic foundation?
选项
A、Because the history of British construction sector is short.
B、Because British construction sector is based on output levels.
C、Because economic recession influences it profoundly.
D、Because its revival demands powerful economic forces.
答案
C
解析
细节归纳题。定位句中,said后是一个由as引导的原因状语从句,说明了建筑业发展底子薄的原因是因为这次双底衰退程度深、时间长。由此可知,Tim Moore认为英国建筑业经济基础薄弱的根据在于英国建筑业受到经济危机的深刻影响,故答案为C)。A)侧重的“英国建筑业历史”在文中未曾涉及,故排除;B)虽然出现了定位句中的output levels,但其意思“因为英国建筑业建立在产出水平基础之上”和原文意思不符,故排除;D)“它的复苏需要强有力的经济实力”不是表达原因,而是经济基础薄弱所带来的后果,故排除。
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