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The "conveyor belt" for global commerce is how Scott Davis, the boss of UPS, describes his company, the world’s biggest express-

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问题     The "conveyor belt" for global commerce is how Scott Davis, the boss of UPS, describes his company, the world’s biggest express-parcel shipper. On March 19th UPS announced that it would buy TNT Express, a Dutch competitor, for $6.8 billion. The deal adds TNT’s large regional network to UPS’ s vast global one. The merged firm will be much larger than FedEx or DHL, its main rivals.
    It is a good time to strike a deal. TNT Express, which split from TNT’s mail-delivery firm last year, has wobbled as the world economy has faltered. Its share price is depressed, but its prospects are not bad. As the world economy revives, package-toters with global networks should thrive.
    The big three have the field to themselves. The huge capital costs of building a worldwide network of planes and trucks to ensure swift deliveries of parcels, documents and freight keeps smaller rivals at bay. And the more complete the network, the better customers are served. TNT Express’ s business fills a gap in Europe, where UPS lacks a road-freight operation. It also has a struggling business in fast-growing Brazil that UPS reckons it can fix.
    Strong growth looks set to resume. Express delivery is enabling smaller firms to run the long global supply chains favoured by big companies, helping everyone to save cash. UPS reckons technology and demography offer plenty more scope for shifting parcels.
    First, technology. E-mail may have killed the letter, but online shopping is great for parcel-deliverers. Shifting things bought on the internet is 30% of UPS’ s business in America. That jumps to 50% at Christmas and other peak times. And as people everywhere discover the joy of shopping from the sofa, the business has excellent growth prospects. Online shoppers don’t care whether goods come from a few streets away or must be shipped, more profitably, from another continent.
    Second, demography. Greying populations seem an unlikely source of profits. Yet to contain spiralling health-care costs, older folk are increasingly receiving treatment at home rather than in hospital. UPS already has a good business ensuring that organs and skin grafts get to hospitals in good time.(Transplant patients prefer not to wait.)The next bonanza, it reckons, will be delivering drugs and medical devices to patients’ doors.
It can be inferred from Paragraph 5 that______.
选项 A、shifting things bought on the internet accounts for the majority of UPS’ s business
B、parcel-delivery has excellent growth prospects because people enjoy shopping sitting in the sofa
C、goods which come from a few streets away or from distant places make no difference to customers
D、companies make more profit from goods shipped from another continent
答案D
解析 根据题干关键词定位到第五段。A项accounts for the majority of UPS’s business不准确，因为只有在圣诞节和其他业务高峰期间才能达到50％，且是UPS’s business inAmerica。B项enjoy shopping sitting in the sofa有误，是对原文the joy of shopping from thesofa的误解，shopping from the sofa只是表面信息，暗含之意是足不出户式的购物，并不是真的坐在沙发上购物。C项make no difference to customers不准确，原文只是说Onlineshoppers don’t care．customers所指范围太广泛。D项是对原文whether goods…or must beshipped．more profitably,from another continent的正确推断。因此D项为正确答案。
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