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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.
Which of the following statements about TNT Express is NOT true?
选项 A、It is a Dutch company.
B、It spit from TNT’ s mail-delivery firm last year.
C、Its main rivals are FedEx and DHL.
D、Its share price is depressed, but it can revive in the future.
答案C
解析 本题考查与TNT Express相关的细节信息，下一题题干中出现了Para．3，由此可判断答题信息从第一、二段找。第一段出现了Dutch competitor，因此A项正确。根据第二段第二句which…可知B项正确。由第二段第三、四句可以推断出D项正确。第一段最后一句为The merged firm will be much larger than FedEx or DHL，its main rivals。根据前文UPS announced that it would buy TNT Express可知The merged firm(并购后的公司)指的是UPS，因此FedEx and DHL是UPS的对手，而不是TNT的，C项不正确。故选C项。
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