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Traditionally, the largest corporations have opted for the passive approach, without ever thinking about their visual identity and diverse imagery.（）

A. chosen
B. taken
C. elected
D. marked

[单项选择]Corporations and labor unions have ______ great benefits upon their employees and members as well as upon the general public.
A. conferred
B. granted
C. flung
D. submitted

[单项选择]Corporations and labor unions have______great benefits upon their employees and members as well as upon the general publiC．
A. conferred
B. granted
C. flung
D. submitted

[单项选择]Negotiators for the two corporations have been mired in discussions for weeks but are now said to be ______ to finalizing an agreement.
A. closed
B. closing
C. closest
D. close

[单项选择]Although economists have traditionally considered the district to be solely an agricultural one, the （） of the inhabitants' occupations makes such a classification obsolete.
A. productivity
B. diversity
C. predictability
D. profitability

[单项选择]Biographers of Emily Dickinson have traditionally______.
A. criticized most of her poems
B. ignored her innocence and emotional fragility
C. seen her life in romantic terms
D. blamed her parents for restricting her activities

[单项选择]Scientists have traditionally (classified) plants by (grouping them) according to similarities in their overall (appear), their internal structure, and the form of their (reproductive) organs.
A. classified
B. grouping them
C. appear
D. reproductive

[单项选择]Transnational corporations locate their factories in other countries for all of the following considerations EXCEPT ______.


A. expansion of market
B. reduction of production costs
C. overcoming import restrictions
D. gaining more skilled hi-tech personnel

[单项选择]American corporations are


A. free from international competition.
B. immune to industrial consolidation.
C. under the intense pressure of international competition.
D. stopping the pain 0f industrial consolidation．

[单项选择]The officials of Alaska native corporations gathered to ______.
A. discuss the reform proposals
B. find ways to help native Alaska people
C. improve corporate competition
D. protest against the Pentagon

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The rise of multinational corporations, global marketing, new communications technologies, and shrinking cultural differences have led to an unparalleled increase in global public relations or PR(public relation).
Surprisingly, since modern PR was largely an American invention, the U.S. leadership in public relations is being threatened by PR efforts in other countries. Ten years ago, for example, the world’s top five public relations agencies were American-owned. In 1991, only one was. The British in particular are becoming more sophisticated and creative. A recent survey found that more than half of all British companies include PR as part of their corporate planning activities, compared to about one-third of U.S. companies. It may not belong before London replaces New York as the capital of PR.
Why is America lagging behind in the global PR race Firstly, Americans as a whole tend to be fairly provincial and take more of an interest in local affairs
A. rigid in thinking
B. interested in world financial affairs
C. like people from the provinces
D. limited in outlook

[单项选择]Traditionally, it is believed that people without self-esteem ______.
A. are usually the targets of organized crime
B. are less violent than those with unrealistically high self-esteem
C. are more likely to hurt others to gain self-esteem
D. always resort to violence when their self image is challenged

[单项选择]In order to get a stronger recovery, corporations are


A. reducing their sizes
B. cutting costs
C. laying off employees
D. all above

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Text 2
Traditionally, the study of history has had fixed boundaries and focal points -- periods, countries, dramatic events, and great leaders. It also has had clear and firm notions of scholarl procedure: how one inquires into a historical problem, how one presents and documents one’s findings, what constitutes admissible and adequate proof.
Anyone who has followed recent historical literature can testify to the revolution that is taking place in historical studies. The currently fashionable subjects come directly from the sociology catalog: childhood, work, leisure. The new subjects are accompanied by new methods. Where history once was primarily narrative, it is now entirely analytic. The old questions "What happened" and “How did it happen” have given way to the question "Why did it happen Prominent among the methods used to answer the question "Why" is psychoanalysis, and its use has given rise to psychohistor
A. presenting their material in chronological order
B. producing a one－sided picture of an individual's personality and motivations
C. uncovering alternative explanations that might cause them to question their own conclusions
D. offering a consistent interpretation of the impact of personality on historical events