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on open standards to allow quick, easy and cost-effective innovation and reconfiguration. In the on-demand era, processes will have to be integrated from one end to the other—so a customer order,for example, creates a ripple effect in which every part of the organization responds appropriately to the impact of the order: logistics, manufacturing and distribution. The level of integration needed to make this happen is a big challenge but a huge opportunity. In this era, youll need an e-business partner you can trust, e-business tools that work in new ways and e-business people who understand your business as well as the technology it runs on. A partner, in other words, like IBM.

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lacement of Taxi TVs?

A．Excerpt 1 and Excerpt 5

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What is said about Apple Inc. with its tablet devices like iPad?

A．It doubled its sale of e-readers during the Christmas season.

B．It controls 73 percent of the tablet device market.

C．It charges customers less in credit card transaction fees.

D．It has long been selling its traditional personal computers

NO LONGER DIFFERS ISSUING A. GOOD MONEY (62)______FROM BAD MONEY

B. MAKE A PROFIT IN COINAGE BY (63)______COINS

C. SILVER COINS ARE (64)______IN CIRCULATION LESS THAN 40 YEARS AGO IN THE UNITED STATES, IT WAS COMMON TO CHANGE A ONE-DOLLAR BILL FOR A DOLLAR"S WORTH OF SILVER. THAT IS BECAUSE THE COINS WERE ACTUALLY MADE OF SILVER. BUT THOSE DAYS ARE GON

E. THERE IS NO SILVER IN TODAY" S COINS. WHEN THE PRICE OF THE PRECIOUS METAL RISES ABOVE ITS FACE VALUE AS MONEY, THE METAL WILL BECOME MORE VALUABLE IN OTHER USES. (65)______BECAUSE THE SILVER IN COINS IS WORTH MUCH MORE THAN THEIR FACE VALU

E. A SILVER FIRM COULD FIND THAT IT IS CHEAPER TO OBTAIN SILVER BY MELTING DOWN COINS THAN BY BUYING IT ON THE COMMODITY MARKETS. COINS TODAY ARE MADE OF AN ALLOY OF CHEAPER METALS. GRESHAM" S LAW, NAMED AFTER SIR THOMAS GRESHAM, ARGUES THAT "GOOD MONEY" IS DRIVEN OUT OF CIRCULATION BY "BAD MONEY" . (66)______BECAUSE IT HAS HIGHER COMMODITY VALU

E. GRESHAM LIVED IN THE 16TH CENTURY IN ENGLAND WHERE IT WAS COMMON FOR GOLD AND SILVER COINS TO BE DEBASE

D. GOVERNMENTS DID THIS BY MIXING CHEAPER METALS WITH GOLD AND SILVER. THE GOVERNMENTS COULD THUS (67)______THAT HAD LESS PRECIOUS METAL THAN THE FACE VALUE INDICATE

D. BECAUSE DIFFERENT MIXINGS OF COINS HAD DIFFERENT AMOUNTS OF GOLD AND SILVER, EVEN THOUGH THEY BORE THE SAME FACE VALUE, SOME COINS WERE WORTH MORE THAN OTHERS AS COMMODITIES. PEOPLE WHO DEALT WITH GOLD AND SILVER COULD EASILY SEE THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE " GOOD" AND THE " BAD MONEY. GRESHAM OBSERVED THAT COINS WITH A HIGHER CONTENT OF GOLD AND SILVER WERE KEPT RATHER THAN BEING USED IN EXCHANGE, OR WERE MELTED DOWN FOR THEIR PRECIOUS METAL. IN THE MID-1960S WHEN THE U.S. ISSUED NEW COINS TO REPLACE SILVER COINS, GRESHAM" S LAW WENT RIGHT IN ACTIO

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ND POPULAR IMAGES TO THE QUIET ADIRONDACK MOUNTAINS A. ENCOURAGING COMPANIES TO (68)______IN ORDER TO REDUCE RUSH-HOUR TRAFFIC AND IMPROVE AIR QUALITY

B. A COMPUTER PROGRAMMER FROM NEW YORK CITY MOVES (69)______

C. AN UNDERSTANDING OF THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN (70)______

D. TELECOMMUTING HELPS KEEP HIGH PERFORMERS ON BOARD, (71)______BY ELIMINATING COMMUTERS, ALLOWS PERIODS OF SOLITUDE FOR HIGH-CONCENTRATION TASKS TELECOMMUTING-SUBSTITUTING THE COMPUTER FOR THE TRIP TO THE JOB-HAS BEEN HAILED AS A SOLUTION TO ALL KINDS OF PROBLEMS RELATED TO OFFICE WOR

K. FOR WORKERS IT PROMISES FREEDOM FROM THE OFFICE, LESS TIME WASTED IN TRAFFIC, AND HELP WITH CHILD-CARE CONFLICTS. FOR MANAGEMENT, (72)______, AND PROVIDES SCHEDULING FLEXIBILITY. IN SOME AREAS, SUCH AS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA AND SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, LOCAL GOVERNMENTS ARE (73)______. BUT THESE BENEFITS DO NOT COME EASILY. MAKING A TELECOMMUTING PROGRAM WORK REQUIRES CAREFUL PLANNING AND (74)______. MANY WORKERS ARE SEDUCED BY ROSY ILLUSIONS OF LIFE AS A TELECOMMUTER. (75)______AND STAYS IN CONTACT WITH HER OFFICE VIA COMPUTER. A MANAGER COMES IN TO HIS OFFICE THREE DAYS A WEEK AND WORKS AT HOME THE OTHER TWO. AN ACCOUNTANT STAYS HOME TO CARE FOR HER SICK CHILD; SHE HOOKS UP HER TELEPHONE MODEM CONNECTIONS AND DOES OFFICE WORK BETWEEN CALLS TO THE DOCTOR.