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1、阅读练习试卷 13及答案与解析 一、 PART ONE 0 A. Verizon Communications A Fortune 20 company, Verizon Communications is one of the worlds leading providers of communications services, with approximately 68 billion in annual revenues. Verizon companies are the largest providers of wireline and wireless communication
2、s in the United States. Verizon is also the largest directory publisher in the world, as measured by directory titles and circulation. B. Adobe Founded in 1982, Adobe today is one of the worlds largest software companies, generating annual revenues exceeding US 1.2 billion. More than 3,700 employees
3、 across the world share Adobes commitment to helping people communicate better. Headquartered in San Jose, California, Adobe is traded on the Nasdaq National Market under the symbol ADBE. Adobe helps people and businesses communicate better through its world-leading digital imaging, design, and docu
4、ment technology platforms for consumers, creative professionals, and enterprises. C. Mainichi Shimbun “Tokyo Nichi-Nichi Shimbun,“ the Mainiehi Shimbuns predecessor, was founded on Feb. 21, 1872. In 1944, it merged with the “Osaka Mainiehi Shimbun“ to become the “Mainichi Shimbun“ of today. It is th
5、e oldest newspaper in Japan. Over the years it has garnered a reputation among the Japanese people as a newspaper that provides unbiased reporting, poignant editorials and other information vital to a modern society. The Mainichi Shimbun has five main offices and more than 280 branch offices and new
6、s gathering stations throughout Japan. In addition, it has over 20 bureaus around the world. These resources help to make it a leader in collecting and reporting every kind of domestic and foreign news. D. BNSF BNSF was created on September 22, 1995, from the merger of Burlington Northern Inc. and S
7、anta Fe Pacific Corporation. The company employs about 38, 000 people. Headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas, Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corporation (BNSF), through its subsidiary The Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway Company, operates one of the largest railroad networks in North America, wit
8、h 33,000 route miles covering 28 states and two Canadian provinces. This network covers the western two-thirds of the United States, stretching from major Pacific Northwest and Southern California ports to the Midwest, Southeast and Southwest, and from the Gulf of Mexico to Canada. E. Prudential plc
9、 Established in 1848, today Prudential plc is a leading international financial services company with some 16 million customers, policyholders and unit holders and some 20,000 employees worldwide. In the UK Prudential is a leading life and pensions provider with around seven million customers. M G w
10、as acquired by Prudential in 1999 and is the Groups UK and European fund manager, responsible for managing over 111 billion of funds (as at December 2003). Launched by Prudential in 1998, Egg is an innovative financial services company, with over three million customers, with nearly six per cent of
11、UK credit card balances. In Asia, Prudential is the leading European life insurer with 23 life and fund management operations in 12 countries serving some five million customers. In the US, Prudential owns Jackson National Life, a leading life insurance company, and has more than 1.5 million policie
12、s and contracts in force. 1 The companys headquarters is in the East. 2 The company is the leader in the field of communications services. 3 The company focuses on financial services. 4 The company is among Fortune 500. 5 The company is listed on NASDAQ Market. 6 The company makes contribution to tr
13、ansportation. 7 The company enjoys a reputation in the field of journalism. 8 The company has the longest history of all. 二、 PART TWO 8 If sustainable competitive advantage depends on work force skills, American firms have a problem Human resource management is not traditionally seen as central to t
14、he competitive survival of the firm in the United States. Skill acquisition is considered as an individual responsibility. Labor is simply another factor of production to be hired-rented at the lowest possible cost-much as one buys raw materials or equipment. The lack of importance attached to human
15、 resource management can be seen in the corporation hierarchy. 【 B1】 _ . The post of head of human resource management is usually a specialized job, off at the edge of the corporate hierarchy. 【 B2】 _ . By way of contrast, in Japan the head of human resource management is central-usually the second
16、most important executive, after the CEO, in the firms hierarchy. While American firms often talk about the vast mounts spent on training their work forces, in fact they invest less in the skill of their employees than do the Japanese or German firms. 【 B3】 _ And the limited investments that are made
17、 in training workers are also much more narrowly focused on the specific skills necessary to do the next job rather than on the basic background skills that make it possible to absorb new technologies. As a result, 【 B4】 _ . If American workers, for example, take much longer to learn how to operate
18、new flexible manufacturing stations than workers in Germany (as they do), the effective cost of those stations is lower in Germany than it is in the United Stated. 【 B5】 _ , and the need for extensive retraining generates costs and creates bottlenecks that limit the speed with which new equipment ca
19、n be employed. The result is a slower pace of technological change. And in the end the skills of the bottom half of the population affect the wages of the top half. 【 B6】 _ , the management and professional jobs that go with these processes will disappear. A. the money they do invest is also more hi
20、ghly concentrated on professional and managerial employees B. in an American firm the chief financial officer is almost always second in command C. the executive who holds it is never consulted on major strategic decisions and has no chance to move up to Chief Executive Officer(CEO) D. if there is n
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