You will hear another five short recordings. For each recording, decide what problem the speaker is talking about. Write

You will hear another five short recordings.
For each recording, decide what problem the speaker is talking about.
Write one letter(A-H)next to the number of the recording.
Do not use any letter more than once.
After you have listened once, replay the recordings.
You have 15 seconds to read the list A-H.
Eighteen
China Mobile Communications Corp. is feeling the pain of economic downturns, though its dominance in the domestic market still seems unshakable in the near future.
The mobile giant recently announced that it signed up 19.91 million new customers from January to March or 1.23 million less than the same period last year.
The national economic slowdown and intensifying competition have dented the company’s growth,China Mobile said in a statement. China Mobile now faces a new competitor in mobile services — China Telecommunications Corp.
Nineteen
In Mexico most coffee farmers are smallholders. They found it especially hard to deal with the recent slump in the coffee price.
The price has recovered from $1.11 to $114 per pound since 2002. But the fluctuation of their income makes it hard for farmers to invest to sustain their crop. The slump forced many small farmers to switch to other crops, or migrate to cities.
Twenty
Soaring commodities prices have left mining firms flush with cash and keen to expand.
One way would be to search for more metal in the ground, instead of on the stock market.
But organic growth is expensive at the moment, as firms rush to increase their output to take advantage of high prices, every conceivable input, from engineers to mining trucks’ huge tyres, is in desperately short supply. Developing new mines is also slow.
Twenty-one
But even if a buyer can be found, a sale would cause other problems.
Foreign buyers would be interested mainly in access to the market, not in Proton’s factories, models or headstrong managers, who insist that a little more investment is ail that is needed to turn the firm around.
And although another car-maker could use Proton’s manufacturing plants, it would make little financial sense, since most parts would have to be imported. Foreign component-makers, put off by Malaysian rules that give advantages to ethnic Malays, have set up shop in Thailand instead.
Twenty-two
The biggest and most diversified mining companies, such as BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto, do boast higher share valuations.
They produce everything from aluminium to zircon, and so are less susceptible to fluctuations in the price of any particular metal.
By the same logic, the more mines a firm is running or developing, and the more countries it operates in, the less risk each individual project poses to profits.