2009年考研英語閱讀理解精讀100篇（高分版）TEXT 18

1. The Culliman mine in deal was named after_____.

1. 正在交易的礦是以_____命名的。

[A] the original name of the town

[A]小鎮(zhèn)原來的名字

[B] the name of its first owner

[B] 第一個礦主的名字

[C] the name of its discoverer

[C] 礦場發(fā)現(xiàn)者的名字

[D] the name of the town's first colonist

[D] 小鎮(zhèn)第一個殖民者的名字

2. Which one of the following statements is TRUE of the Cullinan mine?

2.關(guān)于Cullinan礦，以下的陳述哪個是正確的？

[A] The mine is the only business of the town which employs most of the local residents

[A] 該礦山是小鎮(zhèn)大多數(shù)人工作的地方。

[B] It can be mined for another 20 years given Petra's advanced technology

[B] 有了Petra的先進技術(shù)，該礦山還可以被挖掘20年。

[C] It is the world's second largest diamond mine with a yearly capacity of 1m carats

[C] 它是世界上第二大鉆石礦山，年產(chǎn)鉆石100萬克拉。

[D] Whether the mine will maintain its profitability is yet to know.

[D] 該礦山是否還會保持盈利還是一個未知數(shù)。

3. Petra's opearting philosophy can be said as _____.

3. Petra 的運營理念可以說是_____。

[A] to make better profits by reducing the costs

[A] 通過削減成本來取得更好的收益

[B] to exploit the surrounding areas of an existing mine

[B] 從已經(jīng)存在的礦山周圍尋找資源

[C] to integrate the resources of all the money-losing small mines

[C] 整合那些虧損的小礦山的資源

[D] to restructure the mine portfolio and to optimize the process management

[D] 調(diào)整礦產(chǎn)組合并且優(yōu)化流程管理

4. De Beers has made changes on its development stratege because_____.

4. De Beers 改變了自己的發(fā)展戰(zhàn)略因為_____。

[A] it plans to shrink its market share and ends its long-term monopoly

[A] 它計劃縮小其市場份額并中止長期的壟斷

[B] it wants to open the way for the middle tier of diamond market

[B] 它希望可以為鉆石市場的中間階層開辟道路

[C] it switches its attention to making larger profits

[C] 它的注意力轉(zhuǎn)移到如何謀取更大的利潤

[D] it wants to turn around the loss-making mines by cooperating with companies of smaller size

[D] 它想要通過與小規(guī)模公司的合作來扭轉(zhuǎn)那些虧損的礦產(chǎn)

5. The future of the new class of diamond firm is _____.

5. 鉆石業(yè)新階層的未來會是_____。

[A] promising

[A] 有前景的

[B] dim

[B] 暗淡

[C] unknown

[C] 未知的

[D] frustrating

[D] 困難重重的