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Section 4. You will hear a business student predicting how management might change in the next fewyears.
第四部分。你將會聽到一位商科的學生預測幾年之后管理方面會發生的變化。
First, you'll have some time to look at the questions 31 to 40.
在播放錄音之前，你有一些時間閱讀問題31-40。
Now, listen carefully and answer questions 31 to 40.
現在請仔細聽錄音并回答問題31-40。
Well, I've been talking to managers in a number of businesses, and reading surveys about the future of management.
我最近和幾個不同企業的管理人員聊了聊，并且一直在讀關于管理的未來的調查。
And what I'm going to present in this seminar is a few ideas about how the activity is likely to change in the next ten years.
今天在這個討論會上，我想就未來十年里管理可能會發生的變化，談談我的幾個想法。
It isn't a scientific, statistical analysis—just some ideas for us to discuss.
這不是一份經過科學統計而得出的分析，只是供大家討論的一些想法。
One area I want to mention is business markets,
我要說的一個領域就是商業市場，
and I'm sure a really significant development will be a major increase in competition with companies from all round the world trying to sell similar products.
我相信在世界各地的公司都嘗試銷售相似產品的情況下，商業市場將會出現更加激烈的競爭。
Consumers will have much more choice—for instance, food products sold in Australia might be manufactured in the USA, China, Finland and dozens of other countries.
消費者的選擇也會更多，比如，在澳大利亞出售的食品中，可能會有美國、中國、芬蘭和其他很多國家制造的產品可供選擇。
At the same time, mergers and takeovers mean that governments are actually losing power to major global corporations.
與此同時，不斷增加的企業合并與收購表明大型跨國企業實際上正在從政府手中奪權。
We can probably all think of companies that exert a great deal of influence, which may be good for consumers.
我們想到的可能都是那些擁有巨大影響力的公司，這對消費者來說也許是件好事。
A third point I want to make about markets is that in the rapidly expanding economies, such as India, China,Brazil and Russia, demand is growing very fast.
我要說的關于市場的第三點是，在像印度、中國、巴西和俄羅斯這樣的經濟迅速發展的國家，需求也在快速增長。
This is putting pressure on resources all over the world.
這給全世界的資源都帶來了壓力。
