21. It is the belief of Frito-Lay’s head of global marking that ________.
A) potato chips can hardly be used as a weapon to dominate the world market
B) their company must find new ways to promote domestic sales
C) the light golden color enhances the charm of their company’s potato chips
D) people the world over enjoy eating their company’s potato chips(D)
本題問Frito-Lay公司全球市場總監相信什么。
A,馬鈴薯片很難成為統治世界市場的武器。
B,他們公司必須發現更多辦法來提升國內銷售。
C,金黃的顏色使得他們公司的薯片更具魅力。
D,全世界的人們喜歡他們公司的薯片。
全文中提到全球市場總監的地方(head of global marking)只有一處,就是第一段后半部分。而至于他的觀點如何,文中有兩處可供分析,一是引號內的原話,二是最后一句“Amin believes……”。前面一句話是Potato chips are a snack food for the world,馬鈴薯片是全世界的零食。后一句是there is no corner of the world that can resist the charms of a Frito-Lay potato chip,第二句是世界上沒有哪個角落能夠抗拒Lay公司的馬鈴薯片。
從這兩句話可以看出,這位總監對公司的薯片能否征服全球市場是持肯定態度的,而四個答案中只有D表達了這個意思。
A的說法與總監的想法恰好相反,文中也已經顯而易見地指出了這一點:But its maker Frito-Lay thinks otherwise。B的內容來源于第二段,snack food market is largely saturated, and to grow, the company has to look overseas,但這里只是說零食市場在國內已經飽和,需要開拓海外市場以圖發展,暗含的意思就是再努力提高國內銷售也是徒然,與B的說法相反。C的說法來源于文中對對該公司馬鈴薯片外形的描述,不過文中沒有提到顏色對其魅力的影響,說總監有此想法就更加牽強了。
22. What do we learn about Frito-Lay from Paragraph 2?
A) Its products used to be popular among overseas consumers.
B) Its expansion has caused fierce competition in the snack marker.
C) It gives half of its annual profits to its parent company.
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