大学英语四六级考试选词填空专项训练题

大学英语四六级考试选词填空专项训练题

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A department store’s the land upon which the building is located, the labor of the employees, (1) ______ in the form of building, equipment and merchandise, and the management skills of the store managers. On a farm, the operation system is the transformation that occurs when a farmer’s (2) ______ (land, equipment, labor, etc.) are converted into such outputs as corn, wheat or milk. The exact form of the conversion process (3) ______ from industry to industry, but it is an (4) ______phenomenon that exists in every industry. Economists refer to this (5) ______ of resources into goods and services as the production function. For all operation systems, the general goal is to create some kind of value-added outputs that are worth more to consumers than just the sum of the inputs. To the consumers, the resulting products (6) ______ utility due to the form, the time, or the place of their availability from the conversion process.

However, the process is subject to random changes. Unplanned or uncontrollable influences may cause the actual output to differ from planned output. Random fluctuations can arise from external disruption (fire, floods or lightning, for example) or from (7) ______ problems inherent in the conversion process. Inherent variability of equipment, material imperfections, and human errors all affect output quality (8)______. In fact, random variations are the rule rather than the exception in production processes; therefore, (9) _____ variation becomes a major management task.

The function of the feedback is to provide (10) ______ linkages. Without some feedback of information, cannot control operations because they don' t know the results of their directions.

注意：此部分试题在答题卡2上作答。

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Once the world embraced the automobile, the days of depending on horses, bicycles, ferries, and trains quickly slipped into the past. People were __11__ with the speed of the automobile but they were also enjoying the personal freedom that the automobile gave them.

Owning a car gave people the freedom to go anyplace a road __12_. This allowed people to and at their own __13__. This independence gave the car a popular edge over buses and trains. The popularity of the automobile made it the __14__ of the transportation system. The automobile changed our lives when it created a giant industry that offered more and more jobs. The automobile made it possible for people to live in areas __15__ from their work place. This caused cities to grow and made suburban living more convenient. Of course, with more places to go, more __16__ roads had to be built. The automobile caused a __17__ effect.

Jobs increased, industries grew, new industries developed, and cities appeared. Today the automobile industry continues to offer many __18__. Jobs are plentiful in this industry and improvements continue to be made to the automobile with new technologies.

We have come a long way from that first __19__ carriage because of the cooperative efforts of