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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.
Parcel-delivery can deliver all of the following foods EXCEPT_____.
选项 A、drugs and medical devices
B、organs and skin grafts
C、documents
D、freights
答案A
解析 此题考查快递公司可运送货物的种类，需要结合全文找答案。最后一句提到The next bonanza，it reckons，will be delivering drugs and medical devices to…，即使不知道bonanza(赚钱机会)的意思，也可以从it reckons(它认为、它推测)和will推断出drugs andmedical devices只是未来的设想，现在还没有实现，因此A项并不是现在运送的货物，为此题的正确答案。文章最后一段提到UPS already has a good business ensuring that organs andskin grafts get to hospitals in good time．因此B项是货物之一。第三段出现了deliveries ofparcels，documents and freight，故C、D两项也属于运送的货物。
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