首页
登录
职称英语
[originaltext] The engineer Camillo Olivetti was 40 years old when he starte
[originaltext] The engineer Camillo Olivetti was 40 years old when he starte
游客
2024-02-20
18
管理
问题
The engineer Camillo Olivetti was 40 years old when he started the company in 1908. At his factory in Ivrea, he designed and produced the first Italian typewriter. Today the company’s head office is still in Ivrea, near Turin, but the company is much larger than it was in those days and there are offices all around the world.
By 1930 there was a staff of 700 and the company turned out 13,000 machines a year. Some went to customers in Italy, but Olivetti exported more typewriters to other countries.
Camillo’s son, Adriano, started working for the company in 1924 and later he became the boss. He introduced a standard speed for the production line and he employed technology and design specialists. The company developed new and better typewriters and the calculators. In 1959 it produced the ELLA computer system. This was the first mainframe computer designed and made in Italy.
After Adriano died in 1960, the company had a period of financial problems. Other companies, especially the Japanese, made faster progress in electronic technology than the Italian company.
In 1978, Carlo de Benedetti became the new boss. Olivetti increased its marketing and service networks and made agreements with other companies to design and produce more advanced office equipment. Soon it became one of the world’s leading companies in information technology and communications. There are now five independent companies in the Olivetti group — one for personal computers, one for other office equipment, one for systems and services, and two for telecommunications.
Questions 30 to 32 are based on the passage you have just heard.
30. What do we learn from the passage?
31. What was probably the reason for Olivetti’s falling behind in electronic technology?
32. What do we know about today’s Olivetti from the passage?
选项
A、Camillo Olivetti’s death.
B、Its slow progress.
C、A period of financial problem.
D、Its agreements with other companies.
答案
C
解析
选项中的death,slow progress,problem等表明,本题可能考查某件不好的事情。短文中提到。Adriano死后,公司经历了一段财政困难期,其他公司超过了Olivetti公司。因此,导致该公司落后的是其财政困难,故答案为[C]。
转载请注明原文地址:https://tihaiku.com/zcyy/3468533.html
相关试题推荐
[originaltext]Somepeopledon’tlikeanythingtobeoutofplace.Theyare
[originaltext]W:What’stheproblem?M:Ican’tfigureouthowtoputthepage
[originaltext]M:IsawCarlJohnsonatthehospitaltoday.Iwonderifhiswife
[originaltext]M:IsawCarlJohnsonatthehospitaltoday.Iwonderifhiswife
[originaltext]M:IsawCarlJohnsonatthehospitaltoday.Iwonderifhiswife
[originaltext]M:IsawCarlJohnsonatthehospitaltoday.Iwonderifhiswife
[originaltext]M:IsawCarlJohnsonatthehospitaltoday.Iwonderifhiswife
[originaltext]TelephonebooksintheUnitedStateshavewhite,blueandyel
[originaltext]FederalExpressisaprivateairlineservice.Itexpandsthe
[originaltext]FederalExpressisaprivateairlineservice.Itexpandsthe
随机试题
Inrecentyears,itisnotuncommonthatacollegedegreecannotearnacoll
Canexercisebeabadthing?Suddendeathduringorsoonafterstrenuousexe
在PowerPoint中,母版工具栏上有两个按钮,是关闭和()。A.预览
癫痫发作期治疗方法为A.豁痰息风、开窍定痫 B.健脾化痰、补益肝肾 C.育阴
( )是幼儿教师职业道德的基本原则。A.忠诚于社会主义教育事业 B.良好的行
急性黄疸型肝炎黄疸前期最突出的表现是A.全身中毒症状 B.血液系统症状 C.
下列哪项不属于20世纪20年代提出的新建筑主张?( )A.注重建筑的经济性
冠心苏合滴丸的功能是A.理气,宽胸,止痛 B.活血祛瘀,通脉活络 C.益气养
不属于淤血后果的是( )。A.水肿 B.出血 C.实质细胞变性、坏死 D
下列项目质量风险中,属于管理风险的是()。A.项目实施人员对工程技术的应用
最新回复
(
0
)