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CIP has something in common with CIF. However, there are still some differences which makes CIP more suitable for the export business of an inland place. （） is suitable for any mode of transport.
A . FOB
B . CIF
C . CIP
D . CFR
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An opportunity has been successfully won by a Business Partner in collaboration with IBM. Whohas responsibility for conducting the TDA process?（）
A . the customer alone
B . the Business Partner
C . IBM and the customer
D . the Business Partner and IBM jointly
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A company has a high business value JAX-WS provider Web Service and cannot afford to lose any messages. What kind of quality of service should be used in conjunction with WS-ReliableMessaging？（）
A . Managed persistent
B . Managed non-persistent
C . Unmanaged non-persistent
D . Managed persistent and Transaction （enableTransactionalOneWay）
E . Managed non-persistent and Transaction （enableTransactionalOneWay）
F . Unmanaged non-persistent and Transaction （enableTransactionalOneWay）
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A customer is involved in an IBM critical situation （CritSit）. The customer recently installed iDATAPIex. The business partner has been assessed a significant penalty by IBM. Which of the following is the reason for this action by IBM？（）
A . The business partner was required to perform a TDA and failed to do so
B . The business partner recommended a nonworking configuration
C . The business partner did not support the customer correctly
D . The business partner failed to sell Remote Technical Support （RTS）
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What are two advantages that the Cisco SA 520 all-in-one UTM security device has over implementing a typical router in a small business network？（）
A . Cisco Intrusion Prevention System
B . higher bandwidth
C . virtual private networks
D . access control lists
E . URL filtering
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How long has your company been in business?你们公司经营多久了？
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In use in business, the term perks has come to mean benefits or extras above and beyond the normal comprehensive benefits package.
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My aunt’s business has been doing poorly, but she’s hoping that her ( ) will change.
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The customer service level of e-business has been improved.
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Business correspondence has undergone significant changes in___ and ___.
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The companys______use of energy has saved much expense and has been a model for many other businesses.
A．economize
B．economy
C．economical
D．economist
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No date has been_______for a unified business tax rate.
A．dealt
B．notified
C．set
D．allowed
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If a manufacturer has to charge exorbitantly for his product, he will lose business.（)
A．A.excessively
B．B.reasonably
C．C.relentlessly
D．D.inexpensively
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The airport which was built in 1960s has been too ______ with aircraft for years to expand its business.
A、living
B、lively
C、alive
D、live
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After a shaky start, the Martian flotilla that has arrived over the past few weeks is getting down to business. Two of the five craft in it seem to be working perfectly. Two are lost. And a fifth is sick, but undergoing treatment.
The most spectacular pictures so far have been provided by Mars Express, the European Space Agency's contribution to the fleet. On January 28th this reached its final working orbit (which takes it over both poles, and thus allows it to see the whole of Mars over the course of a few days as the planet revolves beneath it). It has, however, been sending back data since shortly after it arrived, and a few days ago its controllers released a series of beautiful photographs, including a stereo image of Valles Marineris, a huge canyon that may have been formed by flowing water.
The most scientifically significant result, though, has come from Opportunity, America's second Mars rover. One of Opportunity's cameras has photographed evidence of stratification in nearby rocks. Such stratification indicates that the rocks concerned are sedimentary. The layers could be repeated wind-blown deposits, or consist of ash from successive volcanic eruptions. But the terrestrial rocks they most resemble are ones that have formed under water.
The reason everyone is getting so excited is because there is a widespread assumption that any form. of life which might dwell on Mars would need liquid water to live—or, even if it could now subsist by extracting moisture from ice, would have needed liquid water to evolve to that stage. Mars has seen more probes launched towards it than all of the other planets put together precisely because of this hope that it might harbour life. So there is a lot riding on the answer—not least the funding of future missions.
Besides its scientific significance, the success of Opportunity has also helped to distract attention from the sudden refusal of Spirit, the first American rover to arrive on Mars, to talk to its controllers. This craft had tentatively, but successfully, nosed its way off its landing platform, and was about to drill its way into a nearby rock prior to doing a spot of chemical analysis, when it went silent.
However, the engineers at NASA, America's space agency, are nothing if not resourceful, and they have a good record of carrying out running repairs on spacecraft that are millions of kilometres away. In the case of Spirit, they think that one of the craft's memory chips has got cluttered up with files created on the journey to Mars. That caused another chip, which manages the first, to throw a wobbly and to keep rebooting the computer. They are currently testing this idea by loading a diagnostic program on to the computer. In addition, as a precaution, they have deleted excess files from the equivalent memory chip on Opportunity.
Spirit's spirits may thus revive. As to the failures, the Japanese abandoned their fly-by craft Nozomi in December, and the British team in charge of Beagle 2, which is presumed to have landed on December 25th but from which no signal has been received, also seems to have called it quits. Still, a 40460% success rate (depending on whether Spirit is brought back into commission) is not bad by the historical standards of missions to Mars. Now, the real science begins.
Mars Express is mentioned because______.
A．it has been sending data back to the Earth
B．it illustrates Europe's contribution to the project
C．it is the first craft to have ever landed on the Mars
D．it can help researchers see the whole of the Mars
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Last year, 35 percent of final year students expected to enter the graduate job market, compared with 49 percent in 1998; the number wanting to start their own business has risen from 35 percent to 43 percent in five years.
Jason Frank, the marketing and research director at the communications agency SAS, says this creates tough competition for the good graduates. "Companies are finding it difficult and expensive to attract top talent," he says. "The people doing this sort of thing (running their own businesses) are often the sort of people that they want."
The supermarket giant Sainsbury's conducted a lot of research into what graduates wanted in an employer and used this information to develop appealing graduate advertising. Unfortunately, the reality didn't always match the glitz. "People would say things such as, 'Where's my office？' but there wasn't one--it's working on the shop floor," says the director of the recruitment department. This mismatch was one of the reasons cited when people left the scheme early. "Where it becomes difficult for us is that retail isn't seen as a sexy career. In the past we've fallen into the trap of trying to compete about being sexy, but now we're looking at what the job actually involves. Let's be really honest with them about what life's going to look like." Now graduates know before they start that they will be expected to work hard on the shop floor in return for early responsibility, such as running their own team.
Frank says that a warts-and-all approach to recruitment marketing will probably reduce the number of applicants, but should also make sure the people who do apply are a better fit for the company. "When people go in with the wrong expectations everyone's wasting their time. The student starts on a bad note, there's not a cultural fit, he might not have the right skills and the company will spend ￡100,000 training him and he will be gone in two years," Frank advises companies to use a niche marketing approach that targets segments of the student population, rather than trying to get everyone on every campus to read their brochure. It's also up to students to ensure that they think carefully about what work environment will suit them. Frank says that many fail to do any research at all. "They end up sending out applications to the companies that they have heard of in campus advertising, regardless of whether they truly know what the company does."
By his words in Paragraph 2, Jason Frank means that the drop in the number of graduates who enter the job market ______.
A．makes it difficult for good graduates to start their own business
B．creates fierce competition among companies to attract good graduates
C．creates tough competition among graduates to get a position in large companies
D．makes it difficult for companies to recruit talented people with work experience
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Since the early nineties, the trend in most businesses has been toward on-demand, always-available products and services that suit the customer’s _________ rather than the company’s.
A. benefit B. availability C. suitability D. convenience
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INTERNATIONAL TRANSPORTATION Transportation plays an important part in international business because goods produced have to be delivered to the buyers abroad, and the delivery of goods is to be made possible by transportayion services. Goods are carried by several means of transportation - on road or rail, by sea or air.And in recent years,combined transportation which is a road-sea-rail carriage has appeared. With the expansion of international trade, the container service has become popular. The use of containers provides a highly effective form. of transportation by road, rail and sea. Basically, about 98% of world trade is carried out by sea transportation.Besides transportation by sea, road, or rail, nowadays in order to speed up delivery, carriage by air has also become popular.
1. Transportation plays an important part in international business because goods produced have to be sent to everywhere in the world.()
2. Usually goods are carried by many ways of transportation.()
3. In recent years, combined transportation which is a road-sea-rail carriage appeared.()
4. With the expansion of international trade, the container service has become popular.()
5. The use of containers gives a very helpful method of transportation by air.()
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—How long has this bookshop been in business？— ______ 1982.
A．After
B．In
C．From
D．Since
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Since the early nineties, the trend in most businesses has been toward on-demand, always- available products and services that suit the customer's_______rather than the company's.
A．benefit
B．availability
C．suitability
D．covenience
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Japan has banned smoking on the streets in busy areas of Tokyo.（)
是
否
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The increase in international business and in foreign investment has created a need for executives with knowledge of foreign languages and skills in cross-cultural communication. Americans, however, have not been well trained in either area and, consequently, have not enjoyed the same level of success in negotiation in an international arena as have their foreign counterparts.
Negotiating is the process of communicating back and forth for the purpose of reaching an agreement. It involves persuasion and compromise, but in order to participate in either one, the negotiators must understand the ways in which people are persuaded and how compromise is reached within the culture of the negotiation.
In many international business negotiations abroad, Americans are perceived as wealthy and impersonal. It often appears to the foreign negotiator that the American represents a large multi-million-dollar corporation that can afford to pay the price without bargaining further. The American negotiator's role becomes that of an impersonal supplier of information and cash.
In studies of American negotiators abroad, several traits have been identified that may serve to confirm this stereotypical perception, while undermining the negotiator's position. Two traits in particular that cause cross-cultural misunderst anding are directness and impatience on the part of the American negotiator. Furthermore, American negotiators often insist on realizing short-term goals. Foreign negotiators, on the other hand, may value the relationship established between negotiators and may be willing to invest time in it for long-term benefits. In order to solidify the relationship, they may opt for indirect interactions without regard for the time involved in getting to know the other negotiator.
Clearly, perceptions and differences in values affect the outcomes of negotiations and the success of negotiators. For Americans to play a more effective role in international business negotiations, they must put forth more effort to improve cross-cultural understanding.
(1) What kind of manager is needed in present international business and foreign investment？
A、The man who represents a large multi-million-dollar corporation.
B、The man with knowledge of foreign languages and skills in cross-cultural communication.
C、The man who is wealthy and impersonal.
D、The man who can negotiate with his foreign counterparts.
(2) According to the passage, international business negotiation involves.
A、short-term goals
B、long-term benefits
C、information and cash
D、persuasion and compromise
(3) In the foreign negotiators’eyes their American counterparts are.
A、impersonal suppliers of information and cash
B、skillful in negotiation
C、good at establishing relationship between negotiators
D、indirect and impatient
(4) Which of the following is NOT mentioned in the passage？
A、Foreign negotiators are willing to invest time in relationship between negotiators.
B、American negotiator's directness and impatience cause cross-cultural misunderstanding.
C、Americans has played a more effective role in international business negotiations.
D、Foreign negotiators think that American can afford to pay the price without bargaining
(5) What is the topic of this passage？
A、The differences between American negotiators and foreign negotiators
B、Negotiation skills
C、International business and cross-cultural communication
D、Cross-cultural understanding
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As a business organization form, corporation has the following advantages except_（）
A．limited liability
B．easier to develop
C．simple to establish
D．better management
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Fed was a consultant（咨询师）and Guido a wine maker. They started their gelato （意式冰激凌） business with no food industry experience. "We wanted to make the best gelato in the world and we didn't know how to make any gelato!" Fed recalls. That did not stop them though and the business has become more and more successful.
The word gelato means "frozen" originally. Since ancient Rome, people have been enjoying cold desserts. Many think gelato is just an Italian name for ice cream. But actually it is a different product. According to Fed and Guido, the difference between ice cream and gelato is the amount of fat in the product. In ice cream you have an average of 17-18% of fat, but with Italian gelato you have 10%.
It was Guido who first came up with the idea. He thought that if they got the best materials, they could make top quality gelato. Fed then put a business plan together and the two decided to go for it. The only rule they had when they started out was to stick to their guiding principle—to try to create the world's best gelato. Their efforts paid off. Sales of their gelato have doubled in Italy every year since 2008. It outpaced （超过）the growth of every other type of iced dessert by some way. The company grows from two employees in 2003 to nearly 700 employees today.
According to a market analysis, Italians' love for gelato will last for the next few years. These two will be happy to learn the news.
(1).
It can be learned from the first paragraph that Fed and Guido_____.
A、used to be wine makers
B、knew how to make gelato
C、had no experience in food industry
D、planned to create a new dessert
(2).
Paragraph 2 tells us that_____.
A、Fed and Guido invented gelato
B、Italians prefer gelato to ice cream
C、gelato is the world's best dessert
D、gelato has less fat than ice cream
(3).
The guiding principle Fed and Guido followed is_____.
A、using secret materials
B、sticking to their business plan
C、making top quality gelato
D、hiring the best employees
(4).
Since 2008, the sales of Fed and Guido’s gelato have_____.
A、remained the same
B、reached record high
C、grown as fast as other desserts
D、increased steadily
(5).
Which of the following is the best title for the text？
A、the World’s Best Gelato
B、Italians' Love for Gelato
C、The History of Gelato
D、Gelato Shops in Italy
