单选题 Over the last two years, in the PC business Michael Dell has been beaten like a rented mule. His company continues to lose market     25    particularly in the U.S.
    Industry analysts would say that Dell has done a poor job of bringing out     26    and attractive products. Apple Mac sales keep rising. HP, Sony, and Lenovo have     27    new product lines which have had warm     28    .
    Dell's core business is being hit by three things. The first is that the company was fairly late at     29    into retail outlets (零售店) overseas. It     30    on its direct sales model for too long. The second problem is that the recession has     31    Dell's sales. Dell's final problem is that it cannot find the right people to run the company. It     32    dumped most of the senior management that it hired just over a year ago. It takes time for new people to get up to speed.
    Word has gotten out that Dell plans to launch its own high-end smartphone. Dell does not do well what it is supposed to do well. It has become a second rate PC company. It proposes to partially offset that by entering a business which is controlled by Apple and RIM, the maker of the Blackberry. Because smartphone margins are high, Nokia, the world largest cellphone company, Samsung, and Sony Ericsson are also     33    into the market. The traffic jam is going to be     34    . So Dell can't win in the handset business. What it ought to do is to try to improve its PC business.
    A. receptions          E. targeting            I. comprehensive        M. expanding
    B. depended          F. innovative          J. recently              N. consequently
    C. share              G. launched            K. rushing              O. cut
    D. extraordinary      H. declined            L. expressions
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【正确答案】C
【答案解析】此处应为名词。上文提到has been beaten，此空前的continues表明戴尔公司仍受打击，据此可推断此处表示“失去市场份额”，market share也是经济领域的常见表达，故选share。
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【正确答案】F
【答案解析】此处应为形容词，与attractive并列。根据attractive可推知此空的形容词也含有褒义，形容词库中，innovative最为合适，与attractive一起表示产品是“创新和吸引人的”(这些也是电脑这种产业对产品的常见指标)。
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【正确答案】G
【答案解析】此处应为动词的过去分词形式，与have一起构成现在完成时。词库中能够接new product lines作宾语的动词只可能是launched“推出”，本文最后一段第1句也出现了该词。
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【正确答案】A
【答案解析】此处应为名词。根据空前的warm可以推测，此处应该表示“新产品线受到热烈欢迎”，名词词库中，receptions最为适合。
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【正确答案】M
【答案解析】此处应为动词的-ing形式。动词词库中，rushing和expanding后均可跟介词into，但rushing含有“争抢着涌入市场”之义，而空前的fairly late表明戴尔公司迟迟才进入海外零售市场，故rushing与文意不符；expanding into表示“拓展进入”，符合文意，故选expanding。
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【正确答案】B
【答案解析】此处应为过去时态的谓语动词。根据空后的介词on可知此动词必须能与on搭配，词库中depended最为合适，此处表示“它很长时间依赖于自身的直销模式”。
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【正确答案】O
【答案解析】此处应为动词的过去分词形式，与have一起构成现在完成时。空前的recession(经济不景气)提示了此处应为对戴尔销售有消极影响的动词。动词词库中，declined和cut均符合，但declined作“下降；哀退”之义时为不及物动词，后面不能直接跟宾语(作“谢绝”之义时才是及物动词)，据此可排除declined；cut符合文意，表示“经济不景气削减了戴尔的销售额”。
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【正确答案】J
【答案解析】此处应为副词。上一句说戴尔最后一个问题是找不到合适的人来管理公司(一般现在时)，接着说戴尔炒掉了聘请才一年的大部分高管(过去时)，这两句之间没有前因后果的关系，故排除consequently。recently“最近”正好用在过去时中，符合文意。
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【正确答案】K
【答案解析】此处应为动词-ing形式，与are一起构成现在进行时。下文的traffic jam提示了此处应该表示“各大公司争相进入利润高的smartphone市场”，rushing符合文意。
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【正确答案】D
【答案解析】此处应为形容词。结合上文可知此处有“竞争之激烈异乎寻常”之义，extraordinary符合题意。