Reading Comprehension

试题详情

文章:

(This passage was excerpted from materialpublished in 1993.)

    Like many other industries, the travel industry is under increasing pressure to expand globally in order to keep pace with its corporate customers, who have globalized their operations in response to market pressure, competitor actions, and changing supplier relations. But it is difficult for service organizations to globalize. Global expansion through acquisition is usually expensive, and expansion through internal growth is time-consuming and sometimes impossible in markets that are not actively growing. Some service industry companies, in fact, regard these traditional routes to global expansion as inappropriate for service industries because of their special need to preserve local responsiveness through local presence and expertise. One travel agency has eschewed the traditional route altogether. A survivor of the changes that swept the travel industry as a result of the deregulation of the airlines in 1978—changes that included dramatic growth in the corporate demand for travel services, as well as extensive restructuring and consolidation within the travel industry— this agency adopted a unique structure for globalization. Rather than expand by attempting to develop its own offices abroad, which would require the development of local travel management expertise sufficient to capture foreign markets, the company solved its globalization dilemma effectively by forging alliances with the best foreign partners it could find. The resulting cooperative alliance of independent agencies now comprises 32 partners spanning 37 countries.

题目:

According to the passage, which of the following is true of the traditional routes to global expansion?

选项:

A、They have been supplanted in most service industries by alternative routes.
B、They are less attractive to travel agencies since deregulation of the airlines.
C、They may represent the most cost-effective means for a travel agency to globalize.
D、They may be unsuitable for service agencies that are attempting to globalize.
E、They are most likely to succeed in markets that are not actively growing.

答案:

D

提问:

先看了一遍文章,然后根据题目定位到traditional routes附近。根据A survivor那句话觉得C比较靠谱就选了。
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提问:

录音中的思路: 此题是细节题,根据题干关键词“traditional routes to global expansion"定位到原文某一句,读一下,比较选项只有D沾一点,其余选项不沾。所以选D。 个人思路: 没有看原文直接比较选项,A,C,E中出现了”the most"这样的极端词汇,觉得很危险就去掉了;在看B中有比较,也不好;只有D,去掉共同的内容,没剩下什么,就选了D。 不知道这样的思维方式是碰巧作对了题?还是应用原则对了?为什么?区别在哪里?谢谢!
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