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听力原文：F: This is a small company and most of our employees arc from this area. We generally advertise vacancies in the local press and during our busy periods we take on thirty to forty extra staff... they're temporary and mostly come to us through local employment agencies.
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Who is Uncle Sam?'Uncle Sam', of course, stands for the United States. It is the nickname(绰号) of the country. It is hard to believe that this nickname arose quite by accident and there was a man called 'Uncle Sam ' (46) .The man was called Uncle Sam Wilson. He was born in Arlington, Massachusetts (马萨 诸塞州), September 13,1766. At the age of 14 Sam joined the American Revolutionary War, and served in the army under George Washington until the end of the war. He then moved to Troy, New York State and began a meat-packing business in the year 1812 war broke out between the United States and Great Britain. (47) . Among them was Governor Daniel Tompkins of New York State. He noticed the capitalized letters EAUS on the packages of meat and asked what they stood for. A workman replied that EA stood for Elbert Anderson, the businessman for whom Sam was working. (48) . In May 1813, this story appeared in a newspaper published in New York. (49) .By the end of the War of 1812, 'Uncle Sam ' had come to symbolize (象征)the character of the nation and the government. (50)
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?Read this text taken from an article about the difference between internalization and globalization.?Choose the best sentence to fill each of the gaps.?For each gap 9—14, mark one letter (A—H) on your Answer Sheet.?Do not use any letter more than once.Internalization and GlobalizationOne of the most important considerations in the implementation of strategy is the extent to which the organization's activities are spread across geographical regions. H Merchants traveled the known world to sell products manufactured in their home country and to return with products from other countries. Initially, international business simply took the form. of exporting and importing. (9) .Globalization, on the other hand, is more than simply internationalization. (10) . In order for a business to become global in its operations, we would usually expect a number of important characteristics to be in place. First, global organizations take advantage of the increasing trend towards a convergence of customer needs and wants across international borders.Second, global organizations compete in industries that are globalized. (11)Third, global organizations can and do locate their value-adding activities in those places in the world where the greatest competitive advantages can be made. (12)(13) . The mentality of home base, 'foreign interests' that has been so prevalent among traditional multinational companies is eroded in the culture of global businesses. (14) . The development of an organization's global strategy, therefore, will be concerned with global competences, global marketing and global configuration and coordination of its value-adding activities.
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