GWD-10-Q33 to GWD-10-Q35:

[agk99]

GWD-10-Q33 to GWD-10-Q35:

(This passage was excerpted from material
published in 1993.)
Like many other industries, the
travel industry is under increasing
pressure to expand globally in order
to keep pace with its corporate cus-
(5) tomers, who have globalized their
operations in response to market
pressure, competitor actions, and
changing supplier relations. But it is
difficult for service organizations to
(10) globalize. Global expansion through
acquisition is usually expensive, and
expansion through internal growth is
time-consuming and sometimes
impossible in markets that are not
(15) 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 pre-
(20) serve 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
(25) industry as a result of the deregulation
of the airlines in 1978—(通常不看，想看再看，結果還真有考題，所以結論是不要輕言跳讀，10-33有題)changes that
included dramatic growth in the corporate
demand for travel services,
as well as extensive restructuring and
(30) 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-
(35) opment of local travel management
expertise sufficient to capture foreign
markets,(rather than 之後這才是重點句)
the company solved its
globalization dilemma effectively by
forging alliances with the best foreign
(40) partners it could find. The resulting
cooperative alliance of independent
agencies now comprises 32 partners
spanning 37 countries.

[agk99]

文章簡單，題目簡單，基本小心第33題即可

GWD-10-Q33:
The passage suggests that one of the effects of the deregulation of the airlines was
A. a decline in the services available to noncommercial travelers
B. a decrease in the size of the corporate travel market
C. a sharp increase in the number of cooperative alliances among travel agencies
D. increased competition in a number of different service industries
E. the merging of some companies within the travel industry
Answer:原本選C，但答案是給E，理由是C的sharp increase 文章並未提到，但E卻能在30行對映到，consolidation = merge
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GWD-10-Q34:
The author discusses a particular travel agency in the passage most likely in order to
A. provide evidence of the pressures on the travel industry to globalize
B. demonstrate the limitations of the traditional routes to global expansion
C. illustrate an unusual approach to globalizing a service organization
D. highlight the difficulties confronting travel agencies that attempt to globalize
E. underscore the differences between the service industry and other industries
Answer: C
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GWD-10-Q35:
According to the passage, which of the following is true of the traditional routes to global expansion?
A. They have been supplanted in most service industries by alternative routes. (錯)
B. They are less attractive to travel agencies since deregulation of the airlines. (理由錯)
C. They may represent the most cost-effective means for a travel agency to globalize. (必錯)
D. They may be unsuitable for service agencies that are attempting to globalize.
E. They are most likely to succeed in markets that are not actively growing. (錯)
Answer:D

[antipower]

我覺得Q33應該是C
cosolidation指的應該就是alliance 並非merge吧
文章最後也說明 旅行業者的聯盟包含32 partners in 37 countries.
相對於deregulation之前 應該是a sharp increase

[stilalala]

我覺得Q33應該是C
cosolidation指的應該就是alliance 並非merge吧
文章最後也說明 旅行業者的聯盟包含32 partners in 37 countries.
相對於deregulation之前 應該是a sharp increase

我本來也跟你一樣選到c
但是把文章跟題目仔細再看一次
就會知道答案應該是e了

先看題目,題目要問的是 deregulation帶來的影響
答案應該要回到文章,定位到deregulation (line 25-30)
說明了deregulation帶來的changes = effects
有兩個,第二個就是consilidation ,也就是選項e中的merge

關於c選項,首先,有沒有 " sharp increase" ,文章並沒有提及
再者.alliance 是因公司因應deregulation的策略
我認為不能直接說deregulation的effects

不知道這麼說有沒有道理
請指教

[candrow]

我覺得Q33應該是C
cosolidation指的應該就是alliance 並非merge吧
文章最後也說明 旅行業者的聯盟包含32 partners in 37 countries.
相對於deregulation之前 應該是a sharp increase

請注意文中提到的alliance和cosolidation
還有文中提到travel agency和travel industry的地方
就如徐文意老師所說
先尋找題目在文章所對應的段落
ETS有一個通則，甲位置的用詞不會放在乙位置
所以看好了喔，題目問的是deregulation這回事
連在一起的東西是什麼呢？
是consolidation和travel industry啊
那答案就不要去找industry agency和他們所使用的alliance模式
莫北說的好，ETS是用研究生的句法，考國中英文，就是這個道理啊～　　

因為ETS還滿嚴謹，不太會把位置搞糊塗，可是對我們這些不熟的讀者來說，看起來幾乎沒什麼差異
再仔細想想
travel agency怎麼會和travel industry相同呢？
旅行社怎麼會和旅行工業相同呢？
白馬非馬，小不包大
古代的公孫龍比ETS還早告訴我們這個道理
大家一定要善用喔^_^
　　

[shoulo]

我覺得這裡的consolidation跟merge意義不太相同
這裡的consolidation=alliance是指聯盟
但是merge是併購的意思...感覺相去甚遠阿...
A公司跟B公司聯盟 並不等於 A公司併購B公司阿
33題再討論

[chihfei]

文中並沒有指出consolidation = alliance,
alliance是travel agency對globalization採取的對策
consolidation是airline deregulation給travel industry帶來的改變,
兩者不是指同一事物.

這是longman英英字典對 consolidate 及 merge 的解釋:

consolidate:
to combine things in order to make them more effective or easier to deal with

merge:
to combine, or to join things together to form one thing

感覺上consolidate與merge在某個程度可以互通


此外, (C)選項當中subject是travel agencies, 範圍錯誤
因此, 我選(E)