The spokesman of the company refused to enlarge __
A.reveal
B.concentrate on
C.deal with
D.give more comments on
A.reveal
B.concentrate on
C.deal with
D.give more comments on
The chief spokesman of New England Transcendentalism is __________
A、Nathaniel Hawthorne
B、Ralph Waldo Emerson
C、Henry David Thoreau
D、Washington Irving
A. will take
B. has been taken
C. would be taken
D. had been taken
A.reveal
B.concentrate on
C.deal with
D.give more comments on
A. Nature
B. Self-Reliance
C. The American Scholar
D. The Over-Soul
Mercedes experienced one of its worst years ever in 1992. The auto maker's worldwide car sales fell by 5 percent from the previous year, to a low of 527,500. Before the decline, in 1988, the company could sell close to 600,000 cars per year. In Germany alone, there were 30,000 fewer new Mercedes registrations last year than in 1991. As a result, production has plunged by almost 50,000 cars to 529, 400 last year, a level well beneath the company's potential capacity of 650,000. Mercedes's competitors have been catching up in the U.S., the world's largest car market. In 1986, Mercedes sold 100,000 vehicles in America; by 1991, the number had declined to 39,000. Over the last two years, the struggling company has lost a slice of its U.S. market share to BMW, Toyota and Nissan. And BMW outsold Mercedes in America last year for the first time in its history. Meanwhile, just as Mercedes began making some headway in Japan, a notoriously difficult market, the Japanese economy fell on hard times and the company saw its sales decline by 13 percent in that country.
Revenues(收益) will hardly improve this year, and the time has come for getting down to business. At Mercedes, that means cutting payrolls, streamlining production and opening up to consumer needs. Revolutionary steps for a company that once considered itself beyond improvement.
The author's intention in citing various nationalities' interests in Mercedes is to illustrate Mercedes' ______.
A.sale strategies
B.market monopoly
C.superior quality
D.past record