myice

 

（本月已出现1次）7、Apogee Company的Memo

The following appeared in a memorandum from the business department of the Apogee Company.

“When the Apogee Company had all its operations in one location, it was more profitable than it is today. Therefore, the Apogee Company should close down its field offices (n. 外地办事处) and conduct all its operations from a single location. Such centralization would improve profitability by cutting costs and helping the company maintain better supervision of all employees.”

 

(本月已出现3次) 8. University VS Other kind of hospitals

AA：university hospitals  vs other kind of hospitals
       1.学校的医院fewer doctor, lower success rate, less profit and payment
       2.many doctors in university hospitals divides their time into teaching, researching and caring the patients.
      Therefore, UHs have a lower quality of care than other kind of hospitals

 

（本月已出现2次）9. Take Heart Fitness Center的商业计划

108. The following appeared as part of a business plan created by the management of the Take Heart Fitness Center.
“After opening the new swimming pool early last summer, Take Heart saw a 12 percent increase in the use of the center by members. Therefore, in order to increase the number of our members and thus our revenues, which depend on membership fees, we should continue to add new recreational facilities in subsequent years: for example, a multipurpose game room, a tennis court, and a miniature golf course. Being the only center in the area offering this range of activities would give us a competitive advantage in the health and recreation market.”

（本月已出现2次）10. Cumquat Cafe 迁址是正确的

The following appeared as part of an article in the business section of a local newspaper: 

“The owners of the Cumquat Café evidently made a good business decision in moving to a new location, as can be seen from the fact that the Café will soon celebrate its second anniversary there. Moreover, it appears that businesses are not likely to succeed at the old location: since the Café’s move, three different businesses—a tanning salon, an antique emporium, and a pet-grooming shop—have occupied its former spot.” 

(本月已出现1次) 11. 公司转行

AA的题目是一个公司，原来在矿业行业，目前由于此行业demand下降，不景气，准备转为a new growth strategy,到科技行业，引用了许多科技行业今年盈利的证据。

（本月已出现1次）12. centralization and profitability

AA2 centralization and profitability.

（本月已出现2次）13. 商场 中年消费者

9. The following appeared in the opinion column of a financial magazine.

“On average, middle-aged consumers devote 39 percent of their retail expenditure to department store products and services, while for younger consumers the average is only 25 percent. Since the number of middle-aged people will increase dramatically within the next decade, department stores can expect retail sales to increase significantly during that period. Furthermore, to take advantage of the trend, these stores should begin to replace some of those products intended to attract the younger consumer with products intended to attract the middle-aged consumer.”

以下文字摘自一家金融杂志的观点栏目：

平均而言，中年消费者的零售商品消费额中有39%都花在了百货商店的商品和服务上，而对于年轻消费者而言这一比例仅仅为25%。由于在下一个十年内中年消费者的人数将显著增加，因此百货商店的商品零售额在此期间有望得以大幅增长。另外，为了更好的把握这个趋势，这些百货商店应该开始准备更多的用于吸引中年消费者的商品来取代那些吸引年轻消费者的商品。

（本月已出现2次）14. Cereal

AA：讲公司有一种Cereal产品叫Breakfast Crunch，含有比市面上别的Cereal多20%的vitamine k，而且经过调查Breakfast Crunch的regular consumer里面，有70%反映同其

 

（本月已出现3次）15. 信用卡环保

The following appeared as part of a plan proposed by an executive of the Easy Credit Company to the president.

“The Easy Credit Company would gain an advantage over competing credit card services if we were to donate a portion of the proceeds from the use of our cards to a well-known environmental organization in exchange for the use of its symbol or logo on our card. Since a recent poll shows that a large percentage of the public is concerned about environmental issues, this policy would attract new customers, increase use among existing customers, and enable us to charge interest rates that are higher than the lowest ones available.”

myice

16重复被删除 

 

（本月已出现2次）17.

某地W，因为工业污染导致当地的national parks less attractive，所以旅游业税收减少。但是呢，在公园底下发现了矿藏，如果被允许开发呢，挖矿公司可以为政府贡献很多税＋为那些曾经在旅游业工作的人创造很多工作机会。此外，即使不挖，公园的收入也要是持续减少的，所以挖矿是对该地经济发展的最好选择。

 

(本月已出现2次) 18.

AA: 具体的英文题不记得了, 就是说公司8年前利润增加, 同时招了一批员工. 两年前又找了一批,但同时公司利润下降. 所以这批员工素质不行, 人事部门应对此负责

 

(本月已出现1次) 19.

28. The following appeared in the editorial section of a local newspaper.

“Commuter use of the new subway train is exceeding the transit company’s projections. However, commuter use of the shuttle buses that transport people to the subway stations is below the projected volume. If the transit company expects commuters to ride the shuttle buses to the subway rather than drive there, it must either reduce the shuttle bus fares or increase the price of parking at the subway stations.”

 

(本月已出现5次) 20.学生抗议

The following appeared in the editorial section of a local newspaper.

“This past winter, 200 students from Waymarsh State College traveled to the state capitol building to protest against proposed cuts in funding for various state college programs. The other 12,000 Waymarsh students evidently weren’t so concerned about their education: they either stayed on campus or left for winter break. Since the group who did not protest is far more numerous, it is more representative of the state’s college students than are the protesters. Therefore the state legislature need not heed the appeals of the protesting students.”

 

（本月已出现2次）21.建健身房减少健康保险

The following appeared in a memo to the Saluda town council from the town’s business manager.

“Research indicates that those who exercise regularly are hospitalized less than half as often as those who don’t exercise. By providing a well-equipped gym for Saluda’s municipal employees, we should be able to reduce the cost of our group health insurance coverage by approximately 50% and thereby achieve a balanced town budget.”

 

(本月已出现1次) 22.

说村子Sandida的商业地产价格几年以来稳步上升。由此文章说S村的retail space现在肯定已经比P村的同类地产贵很多了，而几年前S村的可便宜了。文章进一步错误假设S村的retail space肯定已经overpriced，因此现在应该投资P村的同类零售业地产

 

myice

(本月已出现1次) 23.百货商店家具利润上涨

 Department store sales, 就是三个月里服装利润下跌，家具利润上涨那个

 

(本月已出现4次）24.信息技术帮助提高公司效益

“The more efficient a firm’s employees are, the more profitable that firm will be. Improvements in a firm’s information technology hardware and software are a proven way to increase the efficiency of employees who do the majority of their work on computers. Therefore, if our firm invests in the most powerful and advanced information technology available, employee productivity will be maximized. This strategy ensures that every dollar spent on enhanced information technology will help to increase our firm’s profit margins.”

 

（本月已出现1次）25.大学毕业生很难找到教书工作

16. The following appeared as part of an article in the education section of a Waymarsh
     City newspaper.

“Throughout the last two decades, those who earned graduate degrees found it very difficult to get jobs teaching their academic specialties at the college level. Those with graduate degrees from Waymarsh
     University had an especially hard time finding such jobs. But better times are coming in the next decade for all academic job seekers, including those from Waymarsh. Demographic trends indicate that an increasing number of people will be reaching college age over the next ten years; consequently, we can expect that the job market will improve dramatically for people seeking college-level teaching positions in their fields.”

(本月已出现1次) 26.Ebooks

106. The following appeared as part of a business plan by the Capital Idea Investment firm.

“Currently more and more books are becoming available in electronic form — either free of charge on the Internet or for a very low price per book on CD-ROM.* People who would not pay bookstore prices will now have access to whatever book they want from their home or work computers. Consequently, literary classics are likely to be read more widely than ever before: 72 percent of those responding to a recent online survey said they would read books in electronic form, and 81 percent said they believed that reading classic works was important. Given this newly developing market, we should invest in E-Classics, a new company that sells electronic versions of literary classics.”

*A CD-ROM is a small portable disc capable of storing relatively large amounts of data that can be read by a computer.

越来越多的classics变成电子版，电子版的的classic book价格便宜，有的甚至免费。最近作了一个网上调查，72% pefer E-book,其中80%喜欢读classic,所以我们应该invest E-classic.

（本月已出现1次）27.提高学校住宿率

38. The following appeared in the editorial section of a campus newspaper.

“Because occupancy rates for campus housing fell during the last academic year, so did housing revenues. To solve the problem, campus housing officials should reduce the number of available housing units, thereby increasing the occupancy rates. Also, to keep students from choosing to live off-campus, housing officials should lower the rents, thereby increasing demand.”

学校的住宿occupancy要如何提高呢？说要keep students from living off campus, 要offer a lower rental...

 

 

myice

(本月已出现1次) 28.汽车厂人力资源的memo

 

The following appeared in a memorandum from the head of a human resources department at a major automobile manufacturing company to the company's managers:

“Studies have found that employees of not-for-profit organizations and charities are often more highly motivated than employees of for-profit corporations to perform well at work when their performance is not being monitored or evaluated. Interviews with employees of not-for-profit organizations suggest that the reason for their greater motivation is the belief that their work helps to improve society. Because they believe in the importance of their work, they have personal reasons to perform well, even when no financial reward is present. Thus, if our corporation began donating a significant portion of its profits to humanitarian causes, our employees’ motivation and productivity would increase substantially and our overall profits would increase as well.”

 

(本月已出现1次) 29.Helio是投资的好地方

 

“Corporations should look to the city of Helios when seeking new business opportunities or a new location. Even in the recent recession, Helios’s unemployment rate was lower than the regional average. It is the industrial center of the region, and historically it has provided more than its share of the region’s manufacturing jobs. In addition, Helios is attempting to expand its economic base by attracting companies that focus on research and development of innovative technologies.”

dlyyxy

good job