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Passage1 （2021·上海浦东新区·高三二模）
Have We Reached Peak Trade?
Globalization is usually defined as the free movement of people, goods and capital. It’s been the most important 1 force of modernity. Until the financial crisis of 2008, global trade grew twice as fast as the global economy itlf. 2 , thanks to both economics and politics, globalization as we have known it is developing fast.
The question is: Have we reached peak trade? If you think of it in terms of the flow of digital data and ideas, no — it’s actually 3 .” Indeed, the cross-border flow of digital data — e-commerce, web arches, online video, machine-to-machine interactions — has grown 45 times larger since 2005 and is 4 to grow much faster than the global economy over the next few years.
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There’s no doubt globalization has incread wealth at both global and national levels. But free trade can also widen the 5 gap within countries, in part by creating concentrated groups of economic lors. Free trade has made goods and rvices cheaper for Americans — think of all the inexpensive Chine-made goods at Walmart — but it hasn’t always 6 their job prospects. From l990 to 2008, the area’s most 7 to foreign competition saw almost no net new jobs created. That’s one reason the new generation of Americans is on track to be 8 than their parents.
The gains of free trade do not always 9 the loss. This realization that the tide of 10 doesn’t rai all boats has fed into the anti-free trade movement. And companies themlves are 11 globalization.
Nevertheless, there is one reason to be 12 about the future of globalization — at least, the new information-bad kind. McKiny data estimate that the companies responsible for the jump in flows of digital goods, rvices and information will include a much higher proportion of small business than in the past. An estimated 86% of tech-bad startups
arafessurveyed by McKiny now do some cross-border business — msci是什么意思 13 before the arrival of the Internet, when globalization was dominated by super powers. That means that more of the wealth generated by globalization could flow down to the 80% of the population that hasn’t 14 as much as it should have.
If tho individuals feel they are being empowered by open borders and freer trade, it could help swing the political pendulum (钟摆) back toward globalization in some form. Despite its laws, it has been an economic force that has lifted more people out of 15 than anything el the world has ever known.
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Passage2 （2021·上海黄浦区·高三二模）
Being Bigger isn’t Necessarily Considered Better
The firm, which famously started life in 1939, has now declared a new age: that of smaller start-up. By 2014, when Ms Whitman announced HP’s decision to parate its computer and printer business from its corporate hardware and rvices operations, the company had grown into a clumsy 16 reflecton. Its fortunes started to 17 with a ries of expensive and much criticized purchas. By 2012 it had lost its position as the world’s leading supplier of PCs to Lenovo. The dramatic 18 was aimed at helping the firm adapt to the new age of mobile and online computing, responding to shareholder demands for more aggressive 19 .
“I would go from lar jet printing to our big enterpri rvices contracts where we were running the back end of IT for many big companies and organizations. The two things are not like each other. So the ability to focus and engage with customers on a(n) 20 t of objectives and I can already e the difference.” Ms Whitmann, who now heads the new spin-off, Hewlett Packard Enterpri (HPE) lling
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rvers and rvices, says the change has already 21 her performance. “One big change is it 22 each of the divisions to pursue the strategy that is right for them. 23 , there is ‘no way’ printer and PC company HP Inc’s decision last year to buy Samsung’s printing business for $1bn would have happened when it was part of the larger firm. So it’s that ability to drive your own program, not 24 by other business that don’t have the same characteristics.” Ms Whitman is so convinced her strategy is working that she’s 25 HPE further, spinning off both its business rvices division and its software business into parate companies last year.
