TEXT B The competition among producers of personal computers is essentially a race to get the best, most innovative products to the marketplace. Marketers in this environment frequently have to make a judgment as to their competitor’s role when making marketing strategy decisions. If major competitors are changing their products, then a marketer may .want to follow suit to remain competitive. Apple Computer, Inc, has introduced two new, faster personal computers, the Mackintosh II and Mackintosh SE, in anticipation of the introduction of a new PC by IBM, one of Apple’s major competitors. Apple’s new computers are much faster and more powerful than its earlier models. The improved Mackintosh is able to run programs that previously were impossible to run on an Apple PC, including IBM-compatible programs. This compatibility feature illustrates computer manufacture’s new attitude of giving customers the features they want. Making Apple computers capable of running IBM software is Apple’s effort at making Mackintosh compatible with IBM computers and thus more popular in the office, where Apple hopes to increase sales. Users of the new Apple can also add accessories to make their machines specialize in specific uses, such as engineering and writing. The new computers represent a big improvement over past models but they also cost much more. Company officials do not think the higher price will slow down buyers who want to step up to a more powerful computer. Apple wants to stay in the high-price end of the personal computer market to finance research for even faster, more sophisticated computers. Even though Apple and IBM are major competitors, both companies realize that their competitor’s computers have certain features that their own models do not. The Apple line has always been popular for its sophisticated color graphics, whereas the IBM machines have always been favored in offices. In the future, there will probably be more compatibility between the two companies’ products, which no doubt will require that both Apple and IBM change marketing strategies. The best title for the passage would be
Apple’s Efforts to Stay Ahead of IBM.
B. Apple’s New Computer Technology.
C. Apple’s New Personal Computers.
D. Apple’s Research Activities.
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Decide which of the choices given below would best complete the passage if inserted in the corresponding blanks. Mark the best choice for each blank on your ANSWER SHEET. The effect of the baby boom on the schools helped to make possible a shift in thinking about the role of public education in the 1920’s. In the 1920’s, but especially in the Depression of the 1930’s, the United States experienced a (31) birth rate. Then with the prosperity (32) by the Second World War and the economic boom that followed, young people married and (33) households earlier and began to (34) larger families than had their (35) during the Depression. Birth rates rose to 102 per thousand in 1946, 106.2 in 1950, and 118 in 1955. (36) economics was probably the most important (37) , it is not the only explanation for the baby boom. The increased value placed (38) the idea of the family also helps to (39) this rise in birth rates. The baby boomers began streaming (40) the first grade by the mid-1940s and became a (41) by 1950. The public school system suddenly found itself (42) The wartime economy meant that few new schools were built between 1940 and 1945. (43) , large numbers of teachers left their profession during that period for better-paid jobs elsewhere. (44) , in the 1950s, the baby boom hit an antiquated and (45) school system. Consequently, the custodial rhetoric of the1930s no longer made (46) ; keeping youths aged sixteen and older out of the labor market by keeping them in school could no longer be a high (47) for an institution unable to find space and staff to teach younger children. With the baby boom, the focus of educators (48) turned toward the lower grades and back to basic academic skills and (49) The system no longer had much (50) in offering nontraditional, new, and extra services to the older youths.
A. accelerating
B. strengthening
C. declining
D. fluctuating
类风湿性关节炎患者血清中增高的主要为
A. IgA
B.IgE
C.IgG
D.IgM
E.M蛋白
队和栈的主要区别是()。
A. 逻辑结构不同
B. 存储结构不同
C. 所包含的运算个数不同
D. 限定插入和删除的位置不同
1999年7月,某校服装班毕业生共 25人被分配到该市天海蓝服装有限公司(外资)从事服装设计工作。由于公司决策失误,导致产品积压,该公司遂于2000年3月 20日召开全体员工大会,宣布所有进公司工作不满1年的员工,工资一律下调30%。25名毕业生认为公司的这一做法与他们所签订的劳动合同有关工资待遇条款不符,于3月 25日向公司企业劳动争议调解委员会申请调解。下列表述正确的是:
A. 25名毕业生与公司可以首先就劳动争议进行协商,协商不成应申请调解,只有调解不成才可以寻求劳动争议仲裁委员会裁决
B. 在协商、调解、仲裁、诉讼四个劳动争议解决环节中,对仲裁委作出的仲裁调解书、仲裁裁决、法院作出的判决书,在一定条件下一方当事人可申请人民法院强制执行
C. 25名毕业生不可以直接向人民法院提起诉讼
D. 如果调解委员会于3月31日确定调解失败,25名毕业生应至迟于2000年5月 19日向劳动争议仲裁委员会提出书面申请要求仲裁