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  3. Microsoft is no longer the world’ s biggest company【C1】______market capitalization. Three other U. S. companies have overtaken【C

Microsoft is no longer the world’ s biggest company【C1】______market capitalization. Three other U. S. companies have overtaken【C

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问题     Microsoft is no longer the world’ s biggest company【C1】______market capitalization. Three other U. S. companies have overtaken【C2】______stock market value. The firm’ s value has gone down sharply by 41% to $ 358 billion【C3】______this year. The fall mostly resulted from the uncertainty prompted by the ongoing anti-trust case. It has been overtaken by General Electric, now worth $ 506 billion, Intel, $441 billion and Cisco Systems, $436 billion.
    The company holding the title of the world’ s biggest company is an industrial giant which makes everything from toasters to jet engines. GE has sales of $ 110bn—nearly ten times【C4】______Microsoft; It has seen its profits grow by 15% a year to $ 11bn. GE Capital Services, its financial subsidiary,【C5】______nearly half its sales. GE produces power generation system, locomotive, and electrical appliances. It also owns the U. S. television network NBC and its financial news subsidiary, CNBC, and ironically, a joint venture with Microsoft to provide news on the Internet.
    Microsoft’ s shares now face a further period of uncertainty as the company’ s legal【C6】______continues. It could also face difficulty in recruiting and retaining employees whose pay has been boosted by their share options. The Seattle based firm might go to an appeal court on any rulings. It could suffer【C7】______from lawsuits brought by competitors, who would be able to【C8】______triple damages for any losses suffered. And with its energy and【C9】______tied up in the lawsuit, the company may find it difficult to continue to innovate in the future, or move so aggressively to【C10】______competitors.
【C7】
选项 A、future losses
B、further losses
C、dead losses
D、great losses
答案B
解析 句意：由于竞争对手的法律控诉，微软会遭受到更大的损失。根据句意，应选B项。
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