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1、大学六级-66 及答案解析(总分:648.00,做题时间:90 分钟)一、BPart Writing(总题数:1,分数:106.00)1.为孩子聘请家教目前非常普遍 2有人认为这对孩子有帮助,有人则不以为然 3我的看法 B On Private Tutoring/B _ _(分数:106.00)_二、BPart Reading (总题数:1,分数:70.00)B Wal-Mart/BWal-Mart is more than just the worlds largest retailer. It is an economic force, a cultural phenomenon and
2、a lightning rod for controversy. It all started with a simple philosophy from founder Sam Walton: Offer shoppers lower prices than they get anywhere else. That basic strategy has shaped Wal-Marts culture and driven the companys growth.Now that Wal-Mart is so huge, it has unprecedented power to shape
3、 labor markets globally and change the way entire industries operate. History of Wal-MartSam Walton opened his first five-and-dime in 1950. His vision was to keep prices as low as possible. Even if his margins werent as fat as competitors, he figured he could make up for that in volume. He was right
4、.In the early 1960s, Walton opened his first Wal-Mart in Rogers, Arkansas. The company continued to grow, going public in 1970 and adding more stores every year. In 1990, Wal-Mart surpassed key rival Kmart in size. Two years later, it surpassed Sears.Walton continued to drive an old pickup truck and
5、 share budget-hotel rooms with colleagues on business trips, even after Wal-Mart made him very rich. He demanded that his employees also keep expenses to a bare minimuma mentality that is still al the heart of Wal-Mart culture more than a decade after Waltons death. The company has continued to grow
6、 rapidly after his death in 1992 and now operates four retail divisionsWal-Mart Supercenters, Wal-Mart discount stores, Neighborhood Market stores and Sams Club warehouses.Wal-Mart StrategyLets start with technology. Wal-Mart pushed the retail industry to establish the universal bar code, which forc
7、ed manufacturers to adopt common labeling. The bar allowed retailers to generate all kinds of informationcreating a subtle shift of power from manufacturers to retailers. Wal-Mart became especially good at exploiting the information behind the bar code. And thus it is considered a pioneer in develop
8、ing sophisticated technology to track its stock and cut the fat out of its supply chain.Recently, Wal-Mart became the first major retailer to demand manufacturers use radio frequency identification technology (RFID). The technology, uses radio frequencies to transmit data stored on small tags attach
9、ed to Ipallets/I (货盘) or individual products. RFID tags hold significantly more data than bar codes.The frugal culture, established by Walton. also plays into Wal-Marts success. The company has been criticized for the relatively poor wages and health care plans that it otters to rank-and file employ
10、ees. It has also been accused of demanding that hourly workers put in overtime without pay. Store managers often work more than 70 hours per week.This culture is also present at the companys headquarters. Wal-Mart is headquartered in Bentonville, Arkansas, instead of an expensive city like New York.
11、 The building is unattractive and dull. You wont catch executives in quality cars and you wont see them dragging into work at 9:30 a.m. Executives fly coach and often share hotel rooms with colleagues. They work long hours, typically arriving at work before 6:30 a.m. and working halfdays on Saturday
12、s.The central goal of Wal-Mart is to keep retail prices lowand the company has been very successful at this. Experts estimate that Wal-Mart saves shoppers at least 15 percent on a typical cart of groceries. Everythingincluding the technology and corporate culturefeeds into that ultimate goal of deli
13、vering the lowest prices possible. Wal-Mart also pushes its suppliers, some say cruelly, to cut prices. In The Wal-Mart Effect, author Charles Fishman discusses how the price of a four-pack of GE light bulbs decreased from $2.19 to 88 cents during a five-year period.The PowerBecause of Wal-Marts mas
14、sive size, it has incredible power. It has driven smaller retailers out of business; forced manufacturers to be more efficient, often leading these suppliers to move manufacturing jobs overseas; and changed the way that even large and established industries do business.There is plenty of anecdotal e
15、vidence that a new Wal-Mart in town spells doom for local pharmacies, grocery stores, sporting goods stores, etc. Economist Emek Basker, Ph.D., attempted to quantify the impact. Her study found that in a typical United States county, when a Wal-Mart opens, three other retailers close within two year
16、s and four close within five years. While the Wal-Mart might employ 300 people, another 250 people working in retail lose their jobs within five years in that county.Wal-Mart has life or death decisions over (almost) all the consumer goods industries that exist in the United States, because it is th
17、e number-one supplier-retailer of most of our consumer goodsnot just clothes, shoes, toys, but home appliances, electronic products, sporting goods, bi cycles, groceries, food.The stories of how Wal-Mart pushes manufacturers into selling the same product at lower and lower prices are legendary. One
18、example is Lakewood Engineering by the turn of the century theU 66 /Uex tended ten miles. Now those who could afford it could live far removed from the old city center and stillU 67 /Uthere for work, shopping, andU 68 /UThe new accessibility of land around the Iperiphery/I (外围) of almost every, majo
19、r cityU 69 /Uan explosion of real estate development and fueled what we nowU 70 /Uas urbanI sprawl/I (城市蔓延). Between 1890 and 1920, for example, some 250,000 newU 71 /Ulots were recorded within the borders of Chicago,U 72 /Uof them located in outlying areas. Over the same period, another 550,000 wer
20、e plotted outside the city limitsU 73 /Uwithin the metropolitan area. Anxious to takeU 74 /Uof the possibilities of commuting, real estate developers added 800,000 potential building sites to the Chicago region in just thirty yearslots that could have housed five to six million people.Of course, man
21、y were neverU 75 /U; there was always a huge surplus of subdivided, but vacant, land around Chicago and other cities. TheseU 76 /Upre sent a feature of residential expansionU 77 /Uto the growth of mass transportation: urban sprawl wasU 78 /Uunplanned. It was carried out by thousands of small investo
22、rs who paid little care to coordinated land use or to future land users. Those who purchased and prepared land for residential purposes, particularly land near or outside city bordersU 79 /Utransit lines and middle-class inhabitants were anticipated, did so to create demandU 80 /Umuch as to respond
23、to it. Chicago is a prime example of thisU 81 /U. Real estate subdivision there proceeded much faster than population growth.(分数:60.00)A.mobilizedB.terminatedC.facilitatedD.acceleratedA.vesselsB.aviationC.railwaysD.phonesA.distantB.separatedC.scatteredD.isolatedA.scarcelyB.almostC.nearlyD.evenA.spot
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