GMAT资料——PRep1.pptVIP

Q5 : The authors main point is that (A) modern multinationals originated in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries with the establishment of chartered trading companies (B) the success of early chartered trading companies, like that of modern multinationals, depended primarily on their ability to carry out complex operations (C) early chartered trading companies should be more seriously considered by scholars studying the origins of modern multinationals (D) scholars are quite mistaken concerning the origins of modern multinationals (E) the management structures of early chartered trading companies are fundamentally the same as those of modern multinationals Q6 : With which of the following generalizations regarding management structures would the author of the passage most probably agree? (A) Hierarchical management structures are the most efficient management structures possible in a modern context. (B) Firms that routinely have a high volume of business transactions find it necessary to adopt hierarchical management structures. (C) Hierarchical management structures cannot be successfully implemented without modern communications and transportation. (D) Modern multinational firms with a relatively small volume of business transactions usually do not have hierarchically organized management structures. (E) Companies that adopt hierarchical management structures usually do so in order to facilitate expansion into foreign trade. Q7 : The passage suggests that modern multinationals differ from early chartered trading companies in that (A) the top managers of modern multinationals own stock in their own companies rather than simply receiving a salary (B) modern multinationals depend on a system of capitalist international trade rather than on less modern trading systems (C) modern multinationals have operations in a number of different foreign countries rather than merely in one or two (D) the operations of modern multinationals are highly profitable despite the