2005年12月大学英语四级试题(B卷)
market
27.What do we learn about Frito-Lay from Paragraph 2?
A) It gives half of its annual profits to its parent company.
B) It needs to turn to the word market for development.
C) Its products use to be popular among overseas consumers.
D) Its expansion has caused fierce competition in the snack marker.
28.One of the assumptions on which Frito-Lay bases its development strategy is that_____.
A)products identified as American will have promising market value
B)products suiting Chinese consumers’ needs bring more profits
C)local brands cannot compete successfully with American brands
D)consumers worldwide today are attracted by global brands
29.Why did Riskey have the Frito-Lay logo redesigned?
A)To suit changing tastes of young consumers.
B)To compete with other American chip producers.
C)To change the company’s long-held marketing image.
D)To promote the company's strategy of globalization.
30.Frito-Lay's executives claim that the promoting of American food in the international market_____.
A)will be in the interest of the local people
B)will lead to economic imperialism
C)won’t spoil the taste of their chips
D)won't affect the eating habits of the local people
Passage Three
Questions 31 to 35 are based on the following passage.
If you want to teach your children how to say sorry, you must be good at saying it yourself, especially to your own children. But how you say it can be quite tricky.
If you say to your children “I’m sorry I got angry with you, but …” what follows that “but” can render the apology ineffective: ” I had a bad day” or “your noise was giving me a headache ” leaves the person who has been injured feeling that he should be apologizing for his bad behavior in expecting an apology.
Another method by which people appear to apologize without actually doing so is to say “I’m sorry you’re upset” ; this suggests that you are somehow at fault for allowing yourself to get upset by what the other person has done.
Then there is the general, all covering apology, which avoids the necessity of identifying a specific act that was particularly hurtful or insulting, and which the person who is apologizing should promise never to do again. Saying “I’m useless as a parent” does not commit a person to any specific improvement.
These pseudo-apologies are used by people who believe saying sorry shows weakness, Parents who wish to teach their children to apologize should see it as a sign of strength, and therefore not resort to these pseudo-apologies.
But even when presented with examples of genuine contrition, children still need help to become a ware of the complexities of saying sorry. A three-year-old might need help in understanding that other children feel pain just as he does, and that hitting a playmate over the head with a
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