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Because it takes 4 kilos of grain protein to produce half a kilo of meat protein. (Passage One)

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3Kevin Rogers used to be my boss. At that time he was a hard-working, up-and-coming businessman and a real slave-driver, always telling us we had to sell more and more. As soon as I could, I got a job with another company. The last time I saw Rogers was more than ten years ago. At least that’s what I thought until last Thursday. But now I’m not so sure.I was on my way back to my office in the center of town. There is a small park nearby which I sometimes walk through after lunch. It is empty, except for an unshaven, shabby looking man on one of the benches. He looked about fifty years old and was wearing an old, gray overcoat. It was a cold, wintry day, and he was shivering."It’s been a long time since I had a meal. Can you help me" he said. There was some thing about his voice that sounded familiar. I gave him a few coins and he mumbled some thing about being grateful. As he stumbled past me, I looked at his face closely. I won dered where I had seen him before. Then it hit me. Could it possibly be... No! Impossible, I thought. I watched him walking away. He was the same height as Rogers but looked a lot thinner than I remembered. Then, as he left the park and turned down the street, I caught sight of his face again, this time in profile. The nose was the same as Rogers’, too. I al most followed him but something made me stop. I just couldn’t be sure. But the resem- blance was very close.Yesterday I ran into someone who had worked for Rogers at the same time I did, and had stayed on longer. I started telling him about the man I had seen in the park. For a mo ment I thought it was our old boss. The voice, the nose, and even the face were just like Rogers, but it couldn’t have been. "Rogers must be the director of a big company by now," I said.My ex-colleague shook his head. "I thought you knew. ""Knew Knew what What are you talking about""Rogers was sent to prison six years ago. He’s probably out by now. For all I know he’s sleeping on park benches and begging money from passers-by. \ When this story begins, the writer ().

A. was working for a man called Rogers
B. was on his way to work in the morning
C. was going back to work after lunch
D. had finished work and was going home

6What do the extraordinarily successful companies have in common To find out, we looked for operations. We know that correlations are not always reliable; nevertheless, in the 27 survivors, our group saw four shared personality traits that could explain their lon gevity (长寿).Conservatism in financing. The companies did not risk their capital gratuitously (无缘 无故地). They understood the meaning of money in an old-fashioned way; they knew the usefulness of spare cash in the kitty. Money in hand allowed them to snap up (抓住) op tions when their competitors could not. They did not have to convince third-party financiers of the attractiveness of opportunities they wanted to pursue. Money in the kitty allowed them to govern their growth and evolution.Sensitivity to the world around them. Whether they had built their fortunes on knowl edge or on natural resources, the living companies in our study were able to adapt them selves to changes in the world around them. As wars, depressions, technologies, and pol itics surged and ebbed (潮起潮落), they always seemed to excel at keeping their feelers out, staying attuned to whatever was going on. For information, they sometimes relied on packets carried over vast distances by portage and ship, yet they managed to react in a timely fashion to whatever news they received. They were good at learning and adapting.Awareness of their identity. No matter how broadly diversified the companies were, their employees all felt like parts of a whole. I.ord Cole, chairman of Unilever in the 1960s, for example, saw the company as a fleet of ships. Each ship was independent, but the whole fleet was greater than the sum of its parts. The feeling of belonging to an organi zation and identifying with its achievements is often dismissed softly, but case histories re peatedly show that a sense of community is essential for long-term survival. Managers in the living companies we studied were chosen mostly from within, and all considered them selves to be stewards of a longstanding enterprise. Their top priority was keeping the insti tution at least as healthy as it had been when they took over.Tolerance of new ideas. The long-lived companies in our study tolerated activities in the margin, experiments and eccentricities that stretched their understanding. They recog nized that new businesses may be entirely unrelated to existing businesses and that the act of starting a business need to be centrally controlled. W. R. Grace, from its very beginning, encouraged autonomous experimentation. The company was founded in 1854 by an Irish immigrant in Peru and traded in guano, a natural fertilizer, before it moved into sugar and tin. Eventually, the company established Pan American Airways. Today it is primarily a chemical company, although it is also the leading provider of kidney dialysis (~i:) serv ices in the United States.By definition, a company that survives for more than a century exists in a world it cannot hope to control. Multinational companies are similar to the long-surviving companies of our study in that way. The world of a multinational is very large and stretches across many cultures. That world is inherently less stable and more difficult to influence than a confined national habitat. Multinationals must be willing to change in order to succeed.These four traits form the essential character of companies that have functioned suc cessfully for hundreds of years. Given this basic personality, what priorities do the manag ers of living companies set for themselves and their employees In what way are multinational companies similar to the long-surviving companies studied ?()

A. Keeping central control.
B. Willing to change.
C. Saving money in an old-fashioned way.
D. Choosing managers from within the company.

1999年10月,我国某网络公司甲与美国某计算机公司签订了进口100台计算机的买卖合同。合同约定:价格条件为每台 CIFINCOTERMS2000大连1000,美元,卖方应于1999年12月20日前交货;付款条件是买方在接到装船通知后,在货物装船30天期间内,由中国银行大连分行开立以卖方为受益人的不可撤销的即期信用证;卖方凭合同规定的各种单据,按信用证规定转议付行议付货款;信用证有效期延至装船后15天内,付款单据中须包括已装船的空白背书的清洁提单。 1999年11月20日,中国银行大连分行根据甲公司的指示开出了金额为100000美元的信用证,并委托纽约一家银行通知并议付此信用证。 1999年12月5日,乙公司将100台计算机装船后,持信用证所要求的提单、保险单、发票等票据,到议付行议付货款,该议付行经过审查,即付100000美元给乙公司。10天后,买卖双方得知运输货轮在航运途中遇到特大风浪而触礁,船身被撞穿一个大洞,海水进船,致计算机遭受水渍损失,主机全部受潮不能使用。与此同时,开证行已收到议付行寄来的全套单据,要求付款。甲公司以货物全部灭失为由指示开证行拒绝付款。 该批货物的风险应由哪方承担为什么

My research is an in-depth study of 39 people who changed them or were in the process of trying to change careers. Determining the magnitude of any.34 work transition is very highly subjective. Who, apart from the person who has35 lived life through it, can say whether a shift is radical or incremental After36 interviewing the dozens of people who were making very different kinds of37 career moves, I settled on a three-part definition of career change. Some of38 the people in my study made significant changes in the context where in39 which they worked, most typically were jumping from large, established firms40 to small, entrepreneurial organizations or to self-employment or between the41 for-profit and nonprofit sectors. Others made major changes in the content of42 the work, sometimes leaving behind occupations, such as medicine, law or43 academia, that they had trained for themselves extensively. The majority made44 significant changes in either both what they did and where they did it, but45 most important, all had experienced a feeling of having reached a crossroad,one that would require psychological change. 36()

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