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A) The rapid development of information technology has taken businessmen by surprise
B) Information technology has removed the restrictions of time and space in business transactions
C) The way we do business today has brought about startling breakthroughs in information technology.
D) The Internet, intranets, e-mail, and portable computers have penetrated every corner of the world.
28. If a business wants to thrive in the Post-Industrial economy,__________
A) it should not overlook the importance of information, services, support, and distribution
B) it has to invest more capital in the training of free agents to operate in a seller’s market
C) it should try its best to satisfy the increasing demands of mobile knowledgeable people
D) it has to provide each of its employees with the latest information about the changing market
29. In the author’s view, destructive technologies are innovations which _________
A) may destroy the potential of a company to make any profit
B) can eliminate an entire business segment
C) demand a radical change in providing services
D) call for continuous improvement in ways of doing business
30. With the fragmentation of consumer and business markets ______________
A) manufacturers must focus on one special product to remain competitive in the market
B) it is physically impossible and prohibitively expensive to do business in the old way
C) an increasing number of companies have disintegrated
D) businesses have to meet individual customers’ specific needs in order to succeed .
Passage Three
Questions 31 to 35 are based on the following passage.
Too many vulnerable child-free adults are being ruthlessly(无情的)manipulated into parent-hood by their parents , who think that happiness among older people depends on having a grand-child to spoil. We need an organization to help beat down the persistent campaigns of grandchildless parents. It’s time to establish Planned Grandparenthood, which would have many global and local benefits.
Part of its mission would be to promote the risks and realities associated with being a grandparent. The staff would include depressed grandparents who would explain how grandkids break lamps, bite, scream and kick. Others would detail how an hour of baby-sitting often turns into a crying marathon. More grandparents would testify that they had to pay for their grandchild’s expensive college education.
Planned grandparenthood’s carefully written literature would detail all the joys of life grand-child-free a calm living room, extra money for luxuries during the golden years, etc. Potential grandparents would be reminded that, without grandchildren around, it’s possible to have a conversation with your kids, who----incidentally-----would have more time for their own parents .
Meanwhile, most children are vulnerable to the enormous influence exerted by grandchildless parents aiming to persuade their kids to produce children . They will take a call from a persistent parent, even if they’re loaded with works. In addition, some parents make handsome money offers payable upon the grandchild’s birth. Sometimes these gifts not only cover expenses associated with the infant’s birth, but extras, too, like a vacation. In any case, cash gifts can weaken the resolve of even the noblest person.
At Planned Grandparenthood, children targeted by their parents to reproduce could obtain non-biased information about the insanity of having their own kids. The catastrophic psychological and economic costs of childbearing would be emphasized. The symptoms of morning sickness would be listed and horrors of childbirth pictured. A monthly newsletter would contain stories about overwhelmed parents and offer guidance on how childless adults can respond to the different lobbying tactics that would-be grandparents employ.
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