单选题What does Mr Dale say about problems caused by expansion? A. There have only been minor problems. B. There will be fewer problems in the future. C. There have been very few problems.

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单选题They want to export to Europe.

单选题The 15 "recommended goods" have photos and resumes with their "starting prices", ______ their expected monthly pay, ranging from RMB2000-3000. A. e.g. B. viz. C. n.b. D. vs.

单选题{{B}} Questions 23-28{{/B}} · Read the Chairman's Statement below. · For questions (23-28), choose the correct answer. · Mark one letter (A, B or C) on your Answer Sheet. {{B}} Chairman's Statement{{/B}} Despite the appearance of a new competitor on the market, the company continued to grow and increase its market share throughout 2000. Partly in response to this new threat, but more importantly, as part of a strategy for growth, several key decisions were taken this year. The most significant new developments included a range of vitamin-rich drinks for children and low calorie diet drinks, which both proved very popular. The company is still best known for its range of refreshing fruit drinks and, not surprisingly, these were our biggest sellers once more. There were two new additions to the range last year, Squish! and Liquid Sunshine, both of which have a distinctive Caribbean flavour. The first sales figures suggest that our expensive TV advertising campaign was very successful and that these products will soon be as popular as the rest of the fruit drink range. Growth in the keep-fit and health markets meant our energy drinks did well in 2000. Sales of one brand, Booster were second only to fruit drinks in April. The strength of this particular market also explains the success of our new diet drinks. There were, however, big differences in the performance of our older products. The company's oldest product, mineral water, continued to enjoy a healthy share of a very profitable mass market. It seems our customers are still happy to stay with the brand despite the increasing number of competitors' products. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said of our Ice-T and Chocomania drinks. Sales showed an initial increase in the summer after we re-launched both products but customers soon bought other brands and total annual sales for both product ranges were disappointing. The company also said goodbye to its own brand of cola, launched in 1998. After two unsuccessful years of trying to break into the huge cola market, 2000 looked like being another poor year. The company finally accepted that it had made a wrong decision and stopped production in September of that year.

单选题TapeStore: A NEW TAPE STORAGE SYSTEM TapeStore is a new kind of tape storage system which can store up to 6,000 computer tapes. No other tape storage system can hold as many computer tapes as TapeStore. The tapes look exactly like video cassettes. Many hundreds of data files can be stored on each tape, up to a maximum of 500 million bytes of data. If you stored the same amount of information on paper, you would need nearly 4.5 billion printed pages. The machine is a tall black box with a mechanical arm. The machine is 2.5 metres high and 3 metres wide. This is how it works. Each tape has a code printed on it. You feed the code number into TapeStore, which then looks for the code. As soon as TapeStore locates the code, the arm reaches in and pulls out the tape. The system is very fast. It takes the mechanical arm about 10 seconds to find the tape it is looking for. The machine then searches the tape to extract the required file, and this take Less than a minute. A human technician would have to locate and remove the tape by hand,and could take at least an hour to find the right file on the tape. Some of the world's biggest companies, including banks, insurance companies,airlines, telephone companies, utilities and computer centres, have bought the system.They like it particularly because the system guarantees the security of their data. TapeStore was originally developed in Canada and is now being marketed world-wide. In Europe alone, 750 have already been installed at a cost of 480,000 dollars each.

单选题They are looking for a partner to distribute their products.

单选题Would it be possible to bring the day of your meeting with Mr. Jackson forward by a day or so?

单选题{{B}} SHAOGUAN PLANNING COMMI'R'EE{{/B}}PROJECT TOTAL INVESTMENT (thousand pounds)106 Line Wengchen to Guandu 26800323-Line Nanxiong to Ruyuan 1000001947-Line Pingshi to Ruyuan 126430Shaoguan section of Beijing-Guangzhou Railway 560000A. More money is invested in 1947-Line Pingshi to Ruyuan than in 323-Line Nanxiong to Ruyan.B. 268000 pounds will be the investment in Shaoguan section of Beijing-Guangzhou railway.C. Less money is invested in 323-Line Nanxiong to Ruyuan than in 106-Line Wengchen to Guandu.

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单选题Reducing a supermarket chain's costs A few years ago, the Sainsbury's supermarket chain asked management consultancy Cobalt to find ways of significantly reducing its operating costs and increasing the turnover in its stores. The team, at first made up of four Cobalt project managers and five Sainsbury's colleagues, was challenged to make ￡300m of savings within five years. Beginning with a pilot exercise which cut the cost to the company of own-brand olive oil by ￡400,000, the team looked at a number of products and found potential savings in many areas, including stock reduction and distribution changes. To motivate the team, whenever a saving was recorded on a board in the centre of Cobalt's open-plan office, everyone clapped the team achievement. As the project progressed, it expanded, with Cobalt recruiting and training extra team members to look at more products at the same time. After just over a year, the team began training Sainsbury's 130 trading managers and buyers in its recommended approach. With savings now over ￡100m, Sainsbury's was so pleased that it decided to expand the approach to the whole of its operations. Cobalt is now driving a team of 50 Sainsbury's colleagues towards a new target: corporate savings of ￡700m.

单选题We are carrying out market research in the north and the Midlands from 22nd-26th. A. We have done the research in the north and the Midlands. B. We haven't done the research in the north and the Midlands yet. C. We have decided not to do research in the north and the Midlands.

单选题ThisservicewillcostmorebecauseA.petrolpriceshaverisen.B.thedeliveryofgoodsistakinglonger.C.vehiclesaremoreexpensivetobuy.

单选题· Read the information about commercial banks.· Choose the best word to fill in each gap, from A, B or C.· For each question 29-40, mark one letter (A, B or C) on your Answer Sheet. {{B}}Commercial Banks{{/B}} {{U}} (29) {{/U}}the end of May 1995, China has 15 commercial banks, the International Business{{U}} (30) {{/U}}. Eight of these are{{U}} (31) {{/U}}nationwide. They are: the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, the Agricultural Bank of China, the Bank of China, the People's Construction Bank of China, the Communications Bank, the CITIC Industrial Bank, the China Everbright Bank and the Huaxia Bank. There are six{{U}} (32) {{/U}}shareholding banks. They are: the Merchant's Bank, the Guandong Development Bank, the Shenzhen Development Bank, the Fuzhou Industrial Bank, the Shanghai Pudong Development Bank and the Hainan Development Bank. Apart{{U}} (33) {{/U}}these, there is the{{U}} (34) {{/U}}of the People's Construction Bank of China, the China Investment Bank and two housing deposit banks. They are fully{{U}} (35) {{/U}}by the People's Bank of China. To add{{U}} (36) {{/U}}the 15, the Minsheng Banking Corp was{{U}} (37) {{/U}}up in January 1996. It is now the{{U}} (38) {{/U}}non-State bark. Five foreign barks have so far been{{U}} (39) {{/U}}to run branch offices in Beijing. Here is a{{U}} (40) {{/U}}of them:·Bark of Tokyo Tel 5931640·Citibank of the United States Tel 5004425·Hong Kong and Shanghai Barking Corporation Tel 5001121·Nanyang Commercial Bark Tel 5139026·Industrial Bank of Japan Tel 595472831.

单选题Aims of Asset Management Aim of asset management is to achieve greatest effectiveness and profitability from production and manufacturing equipment. The basic process of asset management is business conditions, and (29) the origin of profit. The fundamental asset management is necessary to gain a (30) understanding of the principal factor that determines and drives profit (31) it determines the deployment and allocation of resources. The (32) of getting more profits and benefits are safety, regulatory and quality and efficiency improvements. Main thing is the (33) of input gives the same amount of output. A systematic process of effectively maintaining, production upgrading, operating assets and combining engineering principles (34) economic rationale, and providing the tools (35) facilitate a more organised and flexible approach to (36) decisions necessary to achieve the public's expectations. (37) from this asset management are many. Maximum profitability is gained by maximum (38) and efficiency, minimized unscheduled outages and partial output, (39) of industrial injuries, and minimized risk (40) the environment. This management must satisfy to all grade people.

单选题 {{B}}How to approach Reading Test Part Four{{/B}} ·In this part of the Reading Test you read a short text and decide if seven sentences are 'Right', 'Wrong' or 'Doesn't Say' (not mentioned in the text) ·First read the complete text. Then read the seven sentences and possible answers. ·Note any answers which are clear For others, write down all possible answers. ·Look for overall meaning. Do not decide a sentence is 'Right' just because you can see the same words in the text ·Be very careful about the difference between 'Wrong' and 'Doesn't Say'. Choose 'Wrong' if the facts in the text are different from the facts in the sentence. Choose 'Doesn't Say' only if there is no definite information in the text. ·Go back and check your final answers.·Read the newspaper article below about business in a small town.·Are sentences 16-22 on the opposite page 'Right' or 'Wrong'? If there is not enough information to answer 'Right' or 'Wrong', choose 'Doesn't Say'.·For each sentence 16-22, mark one letter (A, B or C). {{B}}Littleton News Update{{/B}} The rate of unemployment in Littleton, a small town in the south west of England, has reached a record high this week. According to Helen Santer of Littleton Business Association, there are currently over 4,000 people registered as unemployed. This represents almost a quarter of the town's working population and is an increase of 5% compared to the previous year. The main reason for this rise was the closure of the last remaining factory in the town, LKS. The company, which manufactured a number of parts for use in the computer industry, finally closed its doors in August, leaving over 150 people without work. Another major employer in Littleton, the Victoria Hotel, was recently bought by the well-known hotel chain Mount Clark, which fought off an attempted takeover by the health club operators Health Check. Although staff had feared that they would lose their jobs in the resulting reorganisation, hardly any 'employees have in fact been made redundant. The company's management has recently announced ambitious plans for the improvement of the building's guestrooms.

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