Companies offer promotions without having an adequate plan in place for () with volume.

The author is making comments on the idea that______.

A．the companies must adapt to new technologies and modem competition

B．the companies should offer enough job security and promotion opportunity

C．the companies should offer proper training and create an environment to encourage creativity

D．the companies should establish business school to train employees

SECRET SHOPPERS

Tim Wright knows all about making companies more efficient. His firm, Check-up, sends 'secret shoppers' into retail and leisure companies (29) order to make sure that customers are receiving good service. After (30) visit, the secret shoppers prepare a report for the company to let them know (31) good or bad the service was.

Companies like to know,' says Mr Wright,' that (32) customers go into a store just a few minutes before closing time, they will (33) get good service.' Check-up (34) set up in the west of England in 1992 and (35) two years moved to London so it could offer a nationwide service. (36) the last three years, Check-up's profits have (37) dramatically as companies have come to realise (38) great importance of good customer service. Having started with just three employees, Check-up now has a staff (39) sixty-five and last week (40) an important new contract with a major supermarket chain.

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ding the following given letter．Dear Mr．Wang:

Our company is one of the leading companies in china ornaments retail business．We have oufiets throughout our England．We are interested in your products displayed at the exhibition Guangzhou fair and would like to know whether you could offer us a sole agency to retail your products in our country.

We are confident that there is a growing market for your products in this area, due to the increasing demand for china ornaments.

We operate on a 10% commission basis on net list prices, with an additional 3% del credere commission if required．We usually pay our principals by bill of exchange on a quarterly basis.

If you are interested in the above proposal, we will send our representative to discuss further details with you．We look forward to hearing from you soon.

Yours sincerely,

mputer-based worldwide information network. The Internet is composed of a large number of smaller interconnected networks called internets. These internets may connect hundreds or thousands of computers, enabling them to share information with each other and to share various resources, such as powerful super computers and databases of information. The Internet has made it possible for people over the world to effectively and inexpensively communicate with each other. Unlike traditional broadcasting media, such as radio and television, the Internet is a decentralized system. Each connected individual can communicate with anyone else on the Internet, can publish ideas, and can sell products with a minimum overhead cost. In the future, the Internet may have a dramatic impact on higher education and business as more universities offer courses and more companies offer goods and services on-line.

The internets from which the Internet is composed are usually public access networks, meaning that the resources of the network can be shared with anyone logging onto, or accessing the network. Other types of internets, called intranets, are closed to public use. Intranets are the most common type of computer network used in companies and organizations where it is important to restrict access to the information contained on the network.

During the 1990s, the Internet has grown tremendously in the number of people using it and the amount of information contained on it. According to the Internet Society, a non-profit society that studies and promotes the use of the Internet, 134 countries had full Internet connection and an additional 52 countries had limited access(for example, E-mail only)in 1996. Some surveys found that as of September 1997 there were between 53 and 57 million users of the Internet worldwide.

Which of the following is true about the Internet according to the talk？

A．The Internet is different from television in which it's more convenient.

B．The Internet may greatly affect the ways of college education and business.

C．The Internet is the cheapest way of communication with other people.

D．The Internet is composed of many computers.

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nd of cooking oil. McDonald's aims to make its French fries and other fried foods healthier.

The change will not affect the taste or the number of calories in the food. But by changing the cooking oil, McDonald's says, it hopes to cut by nearly half the amount of trans-fatty acids(转换脂肪酸) in French fries and reduce the amount of saturated fats(饱和脂肪) by 16 percent. Scientists believe that trans-fatty acids and saturated fats raise cholesterol(胆固醇) levels and increase the risk of heart disease.

McDonald's new step is important because McDonald's is an industry leader and other fast-food chains and food processors may follow the lead.

For McDonald's, the action comes at a time when Americans are becoming more and more concerned about; obesity(肥胖) is an increasing pressure on food companies to offer healthy food to consumers.

After three years of study, McDonald's officials say they are switching oil that is lower in saturated fats and trans-fatty acids. McDonald's says the change will not cause higher coats for consumers.

Though there is some change, scientists say that the amount of trans-fat in foods at McDonald's and at other fast-food companies is still important.

The main idea of the text is ______.

A．McDonald's is a pioneer in food products

B．McDonald's is enlarging its restaurants in the world

C．fried foods can't keep up with the development of moden society

D．McDonald's is to use new cooking oil

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sing 7,000 Word documents, 600 spreadsheets, hundreds of PowerPoint presentations and 12 years of federal grant applications. “My PC clicked and I knew, uh-oh, and the computer was dead,” she recalled.

You’ve probably had that feeling. And you undoubtedly have heard the warning “Back up your data or else.” For Ms. Grove, the director of the Legacy Counseling Center, a nonprofit support organization in Dallas for people with AIDS, the story had a happy ending because she had backed up her data on a remote computer—what is commonly called “in the cloud.” With copies of everything, she could restore all her files.

A growing number of companies now offer these cloud-based backup services. Two of the best-known, Carbonite and Mozy, offer similar services with different prices, while Backblaze combines many of the services of Carbonite and Mozy. It offers unlimited backup for $5 a month per computer, and also backs up attached hard drives. If your computer’s drive crashes, you can either download the data or receive a DVD for $99 or hard drive by overnight mail for $189. Backblaze’s backup tool is one of the easiest to use: it just backs up all data files and once completed, backs up new files on a continual basis backups of deleted files, as with most services, are erased after 30 days.

6. Meliss Grove may lost her 7,000 Word documents, 600 spreadsheets and other files, because（）.

A. She isn’t careful about the files when she reads them

B. She doesn’t like these files

C. She didn’t know how to use a computer

D. Something wrong with the computer happened

7. What does the word “that feeling” in the second paragraph mean？（）

A.Melissa Grove is not happy because she lost her computer

B.She made a call to her friend and told them that she had lost her files

C.The experience that the PC is dead and the files may get lost

D.She doesn’t like her PC, because the PC

8. What do we know about the cloud-based backup services in America？（）

A.Only two companies, Carbonite and Mozy offer the services

B.Carbonite has better service than Mozy does

C.Backblaze combines many of the services of Carbonite and Mozy

D.Both A and B

9. What’s result of Ms. Grove’s files？（）

A.She lost all her files in the PC, because it’s dead

B.We have no idea about her files

C.She could restore all her files for the cloud backup

D.They were lost and couldn’t get restored

10. What does“in the cloud”mean？（）

A.It means that we can see a cloud when we use computers

B.It means distant devices that can backup the files

C.A kind of service that help people use PC

D.It’s going to rain if you see a cloud

从下面提供的答案中选出应填入下列英文语句中______内的正确答案。

While most recent attention in the AI field has been focused on expert system software, AI(1)has also seen dramatic advances. Activity in the past years was characterized by new low-cost, powerful LISP machines, the introduction of A1 workstations, LISP compilers becoming available for all major professional and engineering workstations, and the personal computer emerging as a(2)tool for expert system development .The next few years will see this technology evolve further.

Because the(3)of an AI computer represents a sizeable investment, companies should carefully(4)all options that are available as well as have a good idea of what the next generation of systems will offer in order to(5)the optimum system. This publication provides the information necessary to gain this understanding.

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(1) choice (2) read (3) important (4) software (5) hardware

(6) significant (7) emergence (8) survey (9) purchase (10) select

come the third largest in the world.

Lenovo Group Limited of China is buying the (67) computer business of the American company IBM International Business Machines (68) millions of people their first PCs; Now it is getting out of the business of selling (69) . Aggressive competition in the industry has cut the (70) in sales.

The deal is (71) one thousand seven hundred fifty million dollars. This includes five hundred million dollars in debt that Lenovo will take (72) from IBM. Lenovo will be third in worldwide (73) behind the American companies Dell and Hewlett-Packard.

Ten thousand IBM (74) will go to work for Lenovo. The American company already has (75) employees in China. IBM will (76) a nineteen percent share in Lenovo. And IBM will continue to offer services, the most (77) part of its personal computer business.

IBM helped (78) the market for personal computers in nineteen eighty-one with a machine that became very popular. The computer used an (79) system made by a small company, Microsoft. Another small company provided the microprocessor, the (80) of a computer. That was Intel. Intel and Microsoft grew highly profitable.

But soon, less (81) computers appeared. IBM saw its market share (82) . In the end, it stopped making its personal computers itself.

The Gartner research group (83) that IBM had a five percent share of the world PC market this year. Lenovo had two percent. But it controls (84) of the Chinese market, the largest in Asia.

Chinese companies are moving to (85) their international business holdings (份额). This (86) is one of the biggest yet. Lenovo will be able to use the IBM name for five years.

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A．single

B．personal

C．individual

D．private