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yinhang_1217

Like many other industries, the

       travel industry is under increasing

       pressure to expand globally in order

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                to keep pace with its corporate cus-

  (5)      tomers, who have globalized their

operations in response to market

pressure, competitor actions, and

changing supplier relations.  But it is

difficult for service organizations to

 (10)      globalize.  Global expansion through

acquisition is usually expensive, and

expansion through internal growth is

time-consuming and sometimes

impossible in markets that are not

 (15)      actively growing.  Some service indus-

try companies, in fact, regard these

traditional routes to global expansion

as inappropriate for service industries

because of their special need to pre-

 (20)      serve local responsiveness through

       local presence and expertise.  One

       travel agency has eschewed the tra-

ditional route altogether.  A survivor

of the changes that swept the travel

 (25)      industry as a result of the deregulation

of the airlines in 1978—changes that

included dramatic growth in the cor-

porate demand for travel services,

as well as extensive restructuring and

 (30)      consolidation within the travel industry—

this agency adopted a unique structure

for globalization.  Rather than expand

       by attempting to develop its own offices

abroad, which would require the devel-

 (35)      opment of local travel management

expertise sufficient to capture foreign

markets, the company solved its

globalization dilemma effectively by

forging alliances with the best foreign

 (40)      partners it could find.  The resulting

cooperative alliance of independent

agencies now comprises 32 partners

spanning 37 countries.

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Q33:

The passage suggests that one of the effects of the deregulation of the airlines was

             

1. a decline in the services available to noncommercial travelers
2. a decrease in the size of the corporate travel market
3. a sharp increase in the number of cooperative alliances among travel agencies
4. increased competition in a number of different service industries
5. the merging of some companies within the travel industry

答案是E

在C和E中犹豫，个人感觉C更好一些，毕竟文章的最后一部分讲了cooperative alliance。没选E感觉merging这个词比consolidation要差一些，哪位牛人可以帮我讲一下C为什么错啊？谢谢了。

vegachang

我跟你想得一樣 所以到底為甚麼是E呢? 請幫幫忙

caoqin1981

有人给看看不，强烈感觉应该选C，而不是E啊， 根据是回原文定位： extensive restructuring and consolidation within the travel industry 正好符合sharp increase 、consolidation

E some companies 有些弱，是不是原文中CONSOLIDATION和C中的ALLIANCES有很大意思区别才不选C呢？

dayuyunhai

the company solved its globalization dilemma effectively by forging alliances with the best foreign partners it could find. The resulting cooperative alliance of independent agencies now comprises 32 partners spanning 37 countries.
这家公司通过和最好的国外同伴联合解决了这个问题。现在已经有32个同伴参与它的联合，跨越了37个国家。
【也许旅游业中联合的数量确实是增加了，但文章中并没有提到，尤其是（sharp）更没有体现】