With the development of the global economy, many companies state their basic objective of engaging in a worldwide manufacturing business and claim that they are or are becoming a multinational company.Some economists (1) between the international firm and the multinational company in the following way: the "international firm" is a term that (2) enterprises with various degrees of world orientation in their business; (3) , the "multinational company" is one type of international firm. The international firm engages in any activity or (4) of activities from exporting, importing and licensing to full scale manufacturing in a number of countries. The international (5) of such a company varies from the point at which overseas sales and profits take on importance and top management begins to (6) some attention to them to the stage (7) the company is globally oriented in its marketing, production, (8) , and other decisions and considers alternative opportunities around the world.When a company reaches the latter stage, it becomes (9) . Thus, the multinational company is one type of international company. It is a (10) developed international company with a deep worldwide involvement and a global (11) in its management and decision making. More (12) , the multinational company in manufacturing does business in a number of countries; it has a substantial commitment of its resources in international business; it (13) international production in a number of countries; and it has a (14) perspective in its management. Significant (15) exist among multinational companies. First, such a company may not (16) do business in every region and country in the world, (17) it considers opportunities throughout the world. Second, it has a (18) portion of its assets invested in international business; (19) it makes a substantial part of its sales and earns a considerable part of its (20) overseas. Read the following text. Choose the best word (s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D on ANSWER SHEET 1. (10 Points)19()
A. profits
B. benefits
C. advantages
D. cashes
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The film star has cut a (an) ______ figure in the country, and it seems everyone knows her.
A. conspectus
B. conscientious
C. conspicuous
D. ambiguous
Text 4The first mention of slavery in the statutes of the English colonies of North America does not occur until after 1660 -- some forty years after the importation of the first Black people. Lest we think that slavery existed in fact before it did in law, Oscar and Mary Handlin assure us that the status of Black people down to the 1660’s was that of servants. A critique of the Handlins’ interpretation of why legal slavery did not appear until the 1660’s suggests that assumptions about the relation between slavery and racial prejudice should be reexamined, and that explanations for the different treatment of Black slaves in North and South America should be expanded.The Handlins explain the appearance of legal slavery by arguing that, during the 1660’s, the position of White servants was improving relative to that of Black servants. Thus, the Handlins contend, Black and White servants, heretofore treated Mike, each attained a different status. There are, however, important objections to this argument. First, the Handlins cannot adequately demonstrate that the White servant’s position was improving during and after the 1660’s; several acts of the Maryland and Virginia legislatures indicate otherwise. Another flaw in the Handlins’ interpretation is their assumption that prior to the establishment of legal slavery there was no discrimination against Black people. It is true that before the 1660’s Black people were rarely called slaves. But this should not overshadow evidence from the 1630’s on that point to racial discrimination without using the term slavery. Such discrimination sometimes stopped short of lifetime servitude or inherited status -- the two attributes of true slavery, yet in other cases it included both. The Handlins’argument excludes the real possibility that Black people in the English colonies were never treated as the equals of White people.The possibility has important ramifications. If from the outset Black people were discriminated against, then legal slavery should be viewed as a reflection and an extension of racial prejudice rather than, as many historians including the Handlins have argued, the cause of prejudice. In addition, the existence of discrimination before the advent of legal slavery offers a further explanation for the harsher treatment of Black slaves in North than in South America. Freyre and Tannenbaum have rightly argued that the lack of certain traditions in North America -- such as a Roman conception of slavery and a Roman Catholic emphasis on equality -- explains why the treatment of Black slaves was more severe there than in the Spanish and Portuguese colonies of South America, But this cannot be the whole explanation since it is merely negative, based only on a lack of something. A more compelling explanation is that the early and sometimes extreme racial discrimination in the English colonies helped determine the particular nature of the slavery that followed. The passage suggests that the existence of a Roman conception of slavery in Spanish and Portuguese colonies had the effect of()
A. extending rather than causing racial prejudice in these colonies.
B. hastening the legalization of slavery in these colonies.
C. relieving some of the conditions of slavery for Black people in these colonies.
D. delaying the introduction of slavery into the English colonies.
Would you sooner ______
A. take this medicine than being sick
B. taking the medicine than being sick
C. take this medicine than be sick
D. take this medicine to be sick
新课程改革中提倡的现代师生关系的模式是( )
A. 合作模式
B. 平等模式
C. 管理模式
D. 授受模式