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(This passage was excerpted from material published in 1993.)

Like many other industries, the travel industry is under increasing pressure to expand globally in orderto keep pace with its corporate customers, who have globalized their operations in response to market pressure, competitor actions, and changing supplier relations. But it is difficult for service organizations to globalize. Global expansion through acquisition is usually expensive, and expansion through internal growth is time-consuming and sometimes impossible in markets that are not actively growing. Some service industry companies, in fact, regard these traditional routes to global expansion as inappropriate for service industries because of their special need to preserve local responsiveness through local presence and expertise. One travel agency has eschewed the traditional route altogether. A survivor of the changes that swept the travel industry as a result of the deregulation of the airlines in 1978 — changes that included dramatic growth in the corporate demand for travel services, as well as extensive restructuring and 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- 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 partners it could find. The resulting cooperative alliance of independent agencies now comprises 32 partners spanning 37 countries.

The author discusses a particular travel agency in the passage most likely in order to

Aprovide evidence of the pressures on the travel industry to globalize
Bdemonstrate the limitations of the traditional routes to global expansion
Cillustrate an unusual approach to globalizing a service organization
Dhighlight the difficulties confronting travel agencies that attempt to globalize
Eunderscore the differences between the service industry and other industries

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正确答案: C

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ZeroZeroZ

我可怜的词汇量。。。

2015-04-03 20:55:35 IP属地：北京举报

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香抛抛奶茶

一开始我也选了B，可是仔细想想后面这个例子并没有说明traditional routes 的limitations。后面这个例子讲的是alliance这个新方法的成功，但是alliance成功并不能证明traditional routes不成功。如果要选B，后面这个airline的例子必须说明traditional routes是怎么怎么失败。

2015-05-04 20:43:51 IP属地：浙江举报

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angelyaer

定位：One travel agency has eschewed the traditional route altogether. A survivor of the changes that swept the travel industry as a result of the deregulation of the airlines in 1978 — changes that included dramatic growth in the corporate demand for travel services, as well as extensive restructuring and consolidation within the travel industry - this agency adopted a unique structure for global

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2016-08-18 00:29:15 IP属地：福建举报

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sakuraijun

eschew V.避开
altogether ad.一共，干脆
不认识那个动词所以这句话意思完全弄反了，以为是采用。
而且没看到后文的this agency adopted a unique structurefor globalization
unique=unusual

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2013-10-23 20:00:25  IP属地：湖北举报

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Evelynjn

感脚选B，全文不就是反驳traditional route吗，举得就是反例撒

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2015-04-04 09:17:00  IP属地：局域网举报

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thumper 回复 Evelynjn

定位句没有具体说limitation在何处，反而是在说一个新的approach去避开eschew traditional route

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2019-10-26 20:06:43  IP属地：局域网举报

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Evelynjn

多做

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2015-04-04 09:17:37  IP属地：局域网举报

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Serendipity750

不该错，着重介绍新方法导致成功，而不是说旧方法怎么有limitations。

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2015-08-27 00:30:41  IP属地：北京举报

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肉肉1108

同意89楼，如果接下来要具体examplify traditional routes的limitations, 通常的论证方法是说缺点123，就算是用范例来证明，至少也要有正反对比，才能体现出旧方法的问题，而这个particular travel agency一直到文章结尾都在讲他的成功，没有提到traditional routes，真真不该错！！！！！！！

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2015-12-05 15:55:02  IP属地：北京举报

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angelyaer

定位：One travel agency has eschewed the traditional route altogether. A survivor of the changes that swept the travel industry as a result of the deregulation of the airlines in 1978 — changes that included dramatic growth in the corporate demand for travel services, as well as extensive restructuring and consolidation within the travel industry - this agency adopted a unique structure for gl

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2016-08-18 00:27:26  IP属地：福建举报

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eakingj

gmat考试要是能往回做就好了每次做到后面就意识到前面那题选错了... 想改又改不了

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2019-10-17 06:21:13  IP属地：局域网举报

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