【GMAT考满分阅读RC题库】The modern multinational corporation is described _真题_答案

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The modern multinational corporation is described as having originated when the owner-managers of nineteenth-century British firms carrying on international trade were replaced by teams of salaried managers organized into hierarchies. Increases in the volume of transactions in such firms are commonly believed to have necessitated this structural change. Nineteenth-century inventions like the steamship and the telegraph, by facilitating coordination of managerial activities, are described as key factors. Sixteenth-and seventeenth—century chartered trading companies, despite the international scope of their activities, are usually considered irrelevant to this discussion：the volume of their transactions is assumed to have been too low and the communications and transport of their day too primitive to make comparisons with modern multinationals interesting.

In reality, however, early trading companies successfully purchased and outfitted ships, built and operated offices and warehouses, manufactured trade goods for use abroad, maintained trading posts and production facilities overseas, procured goods for Import, and sold those goods both at home and in other countries. The large volume of transactions associated with these activities seems to have necessitated hierarchical management structures well before the advent of modern communications and transportation. For example, in the Hudson's Bay Company, each far-flung trading outpost was managed by a salaried agent, who carried out the trade with the Native Americans, managed day-to-day operations, and oversaw the post's workers and servants. One chief agent, answerable to the Court of Directors in London through the correspondence committee, was appointed with control over all of the agents on the bay.

The early trading companies did differ strikingly from modern multinationals in many respects. They depended heavily on the national governments of their home countries and thus characteristically acted abroad to promote national interests. Their top managers were typically owners with a substantial minority share, whereas senior managers' holdings in modern multinationals are usually insignificant.They operated in a preindustrial world, grafting a system of capitalist international trade onto a premodern system of artisan and peasant production. Despite these differences however, early trading companies organized effectively in remarkably modern ways and merit further study as analogues of more modern structures.

The author lists the various activities of early chartered trading companies in order to

Aanalyze the various ways in which these activities contributed to changes in management structure in such companies
Bdemonstrate that the volume of business transactions of such companies exceeded that of earlier firms
Crefute the view that the volume of business undertaken by such companies was relatively low
Demphasize the international scope of these companies' operations
Esupport the argument that such firms coordinated such activities by using available means of communication and transport

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正确答案: C

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Nov.23

我一开始也选的A，后来仔细看看A有许多错误~ 1.首先要明确，有了however,答案肯定是要往前文找的； 2.A里有个changed，但原文是什么？是 "necessitated",显然转换了意思；3.A里还有个“analyze”，文中显然没有analyze这些way，只是“列举”；4.看作者的purpose，举出这几个activities，目的是什么？下文有一个 The large volume of transactions （associated with these activities），括号里都是定语了，重点是large volume，而这个large volume necessitated了management。这个large volume也正好和上一段的low volume contrast了，也就是说，这其实这一段整个都是在refute上一段最后那个：early cha

2012-11-09 11:36:24 IP属地：保留地址举报

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Samanthayy 回复 Nov.23

姐妹你是打的一半儿掉线了吗哈哈哈哈哈

2019-10-02 15:45:03 IP属地：北京举报

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我爱王茶茶回复 Samanthayy

字数限制了吧

2019-10-16 19:41:58 IP属地：局域网举报

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南风吹

LV最近审核的质量比以前稍高一点了

2018-07-17 17:06:27 IP属地：河北举报

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censy

E错在哪里？

2014-08-26 20:48:34 IP属地：局域网举报

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Abigail25 回复 censy

定位点没有提到E里的内容，而且这个也不是重点

2019-10-16 20:47:24 IP属地：局域网举报

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Jefxu

我是觉得A错在analyze上，文章中只是把这些activities列举出来，没有进行任何分析，所以A 错

2018-12-12 21:00:06 IP属地：北京举报

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王茶茶

the volume of their transactions is assumed to have been too low and the communications and transport of their day too primitive to make comparisons with modern multinationals interesting.
就是别人认为这些公司业务规模很小。
紧接着第二段开头就一个however，然后后面就开始说various activities of early chartered trading companies：
purchased and outfitted ships, built and operated offices and warehouses, manufactured trade good

2019-08-02 22:30:11 IP属地：北京举报

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我爱王茶茶回复王茶茶

嗯嗯

2019-10-16 19:43:48 IP属地：局域网举报

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王茶茶回复王茶茶

所以说，说这些就是为了反驳之前提到的它们业务规模很小这个观点。

2019-08-02 22:30:34 IP属地：北京举报

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orange

A项-analyze the various ways in which these activities contributed to changes in management structure in such companies分析了这些activities促进这些公司在管理结构上变化的多种方式。
看定位处及其前后，并没有说“管理结构改变的方法”的问题。

2012-11-22 21:17:02 IP属地：保留地址举报

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liuxiangjin

唉。。。看懂了题都好说。。就是看不懂。。。

2017-05-09 15:39:43 IP属地：山东举报

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oliviawoo

解释挺好的

2014-05-14 15:33:38 IP属地：上海举报

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vivienxiao

那A错在哪儿？

2012-10-16 15:29:08 IP属地：保留地址举报

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png

为什么E不对啊？

2018-01-14 16:56:59 IP属地：四川举报

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