試題詳解

23.
(A)scattered
(B)dispersed
(B) voluntary
(B) categorized into
(B)but
(B) immersed
(B)that
(B) cardinal
(B) degenerated
(D) converged)
(D) autonomous)
(D)accounted to)
(D)or)
(D) intrigued)
(D)them)
(D) fortuitous) (b)Though negotiations directly between MITI (the Ministry of International Trade and Industry) and IBM produced agreements to allow _24— to enter Japan, and soon to manufacture there, but only at the -25 that IBM would open its patents to any Japanese firm desiring them, at very favorable royalty rates. Thus the Japanese companies brought together by MITI could enter the race with a strong advantage: they could build computers _26— with IBM’s systems, and the government would finance majority percentages of the research costs needed to build Japanese computers. The work was _27— organized and Toshiba, with its technological agreements with GE, was paired with NEC and that firm’s overseas partner Honeywell. As a result, “—28_, the alliance had 20% of the [Japanese] computer market，” observes one study of the unfolding race. But “Toshiba’s models did not sell well, and by the 1980s, Toshiba, no longer willing to bear the high cost of producing mainframe computers... decided to drop out... and —29 its own efforts into small business computers and minicomputers.”