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The world is going through the biggest wave of mergers and acquisitions ever witnessed. The process sweeps from hyperactive Amer

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问题     The world is going through the biggest wave of mergers and acquisitions ever witnessed. The process sweeps from hyperactive America to Europe and reaches the emerging countries with unsurpassed might. Many in these countries are looking at this process and worrying: "Won’t the wave of business concentration turn into an uncontrollable anti-competitive force?"
    There’s no question that the big are getting bigger and more powerful. Multinational corporations accounted for less than 20％ of international trade in 1982. Today the figure is more than 25％ and growing rapidly. International affiliates account for a fast-growing segment of production in economies that open up and welcome foreign investment. In Argentina, for instance, after the reforms of the early 1990s, multinationals went from 43％ to almost 70％ of the industrial production of the 200 largest firms. This phenomenon has created serious concerns over the role of smaller economic firms, of national businessmen and over the ultimate stability of the world economy.
    I believe that the most important forces behind the massive M&A wave are the same that underlie the globalization process: falling transportation and communication costs, lower trade and investment barriers and enlarged markets that require enlarged operations capable of meeting customer’s demands. All these are beneficial, not detrimental, to consumers. As productivity grows, the world’s wealth increases.
    Examples of benefits or costs of the current concentration wave are scanty. Yet it is hard to imagine that the merger of a few oil firms today could recreate the same threats to competition that were feared nearly a century ago in the U.S., when the Standard Oil trust was broken up. The mergers of telecom companies, such as WorldCom, hardly seem to bring higher prices for consumers or a reduction in the pace of technical progress. On the contrary, the price of communications is coming down fast. In cars, too, concentration is increasing—witness Daimler and Chrysler, Renault and Nissan—but it does not appear that consumers are being hurt.
    Yet the fact remains that the merger movement must be watched. A few weeks ago, Some experts warned against the megamergers in the banking industry. Who is going to supervise, regulate and operate as lender of last resort with the gigantic banks that are being created? Won’t multinationals shift production from one place to another when a nation gets too strict about infringements to fair competition? And should one country take upon itself the role of "defending competition" on issues that affect many other nations?
Toward the new business wave, the writer’s attitude can be said to be________.
选项 A、optimistic
B、objective
C、pessimistic
D、biased
答案B
解析 本题关键词是the writer’s attitude toward the new business wave，属于态度题，需定位各段主题：第一段：并购浪潮引起了人们对垄断的担忧。第二段：并购浪潮使大企业更大、更强，人们担心本国企业和小型企业的地位，以及世界经济的稳定。第三段：三个动力推动企业并购，其结果有利于消费者和世界财富的增长。第四段：证明并购浪潮利弊的实例不多，从目前的几例并购来看，对消费者是有益的。第五段：企业并购也会产生一些不利因素，人们应该关注这些不利因素。根据全文五个自然段的段落主题，不难看出，对于这股新的商业并购浪潮作者既说明了它好的一面(第三、四段)，也说明了它可能会带来的不利因素(第五段)，即作者从正反两面分析了这股新的商业并购浪潮，不带任何主观色彩，所以作者的态度是相当客观的，因此，选项B符合作者态度。其他选项均曲解文意。
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