首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
•Read this text taken from a business magazine. •Choose the best sentence to fill each of the gaps. •For each gap (9-14),
•Read this text taken from a business magazine. •Choose the best sentence to fill each of the gaps. •For each gap (9-14),
admin
2010-01-28
49
问题
•Read this text taken from a business magazine.
•Choose the best sentence to fill each of the gaps.
•For each gap (9-14), mark one letter (A-H) on your Answer Sheet.
•Do not use any letter more than once.
Mary Diana was annoyed when a local laundry charged more to wash and iron her white blouses than to clean her husband’s white shirts. Actually, she was more than just annoyed. (9) Twenty-one of them quoted higher prices for blouses. Then she did an experiment. She cut the label out of a blouse, sewed in the label for a man’s shirt, and took the blouse to the cleaner along with three of her husband’s shirts. The cleaner charged her $1.25. (10) The cleaner charged her $ 2.25. Mary feels that the cleaner’s pricing is unreasonable--that they have prejudice against women and charge arbitrarily higher prices.
(11) The president of the Association of Launderers and Cleaners in Mary’s state has a different view. "The automated machine we use fits a certain range of standardized shirts." he said. "A lot of women’s blouses have different kinds of trim, different kinds of buttons, and lots of braid work, and it all has to be hand-finished. If it involves hand-finishing, we charge higher prices." In other words, some cleaners charge more for doing women’s blouses because the average cost is higher than the average cost for men’s shirts.
(12) A consumer-protection specialist in the Attorney General’s office in Mary’s state said that there were no federal or stare laws to regulate what the cleaners could charge. (13) Many firms face the same problem of how to set prices when the costs are different to serve different customers. For example, poor, inner-city consumers often pay higher prices for food. (14) Some firms don’t like to charge different consumers different prices, but they also don’t want to charge everyone a higher average price to cover the expense of serving high-cost customers.
A Later she did the same thing, but with a blouse that had the original label.
B Of course, the cost of cleaning and ironing any specific shirt may not be higher or lower than the average.
C But inner-city retailers also face higher average costs for facilities, shop lifting, and insurance.
D She telephoned 33 cleaners and asked each one’s price to launder a nonfrills, white cotton blouse the same style and size as a man’s shirt.
E Inner-city consumers enjoy better quality goods.
F Mary won’t take any actual measures to urge the government to pass such a law.
G She said that customers who don’t like a particular cleaner’s rates are free to visit a competitor who may charge less.
H She wants her local city government to pass an ordinance that prohibits laundry and dry cleaning businesses from discriminatory pricing based on gender.
选项
答案
C
解析
该项意思是:但是市中心的零售商的本会较高,因为他们设备、店面和保险的费用较高。该句和上句一起,举例论证不同的店家成本可能不同,故答案为C。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/EOKd777K
本试题收录于:
BEC高级阅读题库BEC商务英语分类
0
BEC高级阅读
BEC商务英语
相关试题推荐
Whatarethewomenmainlydiscussing?
Whatarethespeakersmainlydiscussing?
Whatarethespeakersmainlydiscussing?
Whatismainlydiscussed?
Whatarethespeakersdiscussing?
Whatarethespeakersmainlydiscussing?
Whattypeofbusinessdoesthespeakermostlikelyworkfor?
WhattypeofbusinessisArdo?
WhattypeofbusinessisArdo?
WhattypeofbusinessisFindersBuyers?
随机试题
结肠癌最早出现的症状是
A.培养良好的生活习惯B.心理卫生指导C.保护胚胎,免受各种有毒有害因素的影响,预防胎儿畸形发生D.预防妊娠合并症和并发症E.监测胎儿宫内发育情况属于孕晚期保健内容的是
关于家庭权力结构表述正确的是
研究者和研究对象均不知分组情况是包括连续变量及非连续变量样本大小的估计:
保存期内的全血最主要的有效成分是
甲创作的一篇杂文,发表后引起较大轰动。该杂文被多家报刊、网站无偿转载。乙将该杂文译成法文,丙将之译成维文,均在国内出版,未征得甲的同意,也未支付报酬。下列哪一观点是正确的?()
道教的最高层神团是()。
下述()属于FMS中决策支持系统的模块功能。
MoneyspentonadvertisingismoneyspentaswellasanyIknowof.Itservesdirectlytoassistarapiddistributionofgoodsa
【B1】【B20】
最新回复
(
0
)