2015中国科技大学考博英语真题阅读理解精练 2.pdf

中国考博辅导首选学校 2015中国科技大学考博英语真题阅读理解精练 Westernairlinermanufacturers s mtob trippingoverthemselves in their eagerness to sign collaborativ agr ments with Asian partners as a low-cost rout to developing new airliners. Their potential Asian partners s m tob tripping over themselves to sign such agr ments， as a low-cost rout to acquiring new airliner technology. Iftheyar notcarefulth twosideswill endup tripping over each other： th on by selling itsbirth-right for short-term gain， th other by trying to break into a market which isn ‘t big enough to sustain it. examda Technology transfer works in a growing market， wher th aspirations of th new entrant receiving that technology can b met through expansion. Th airliner market is not such a device. Even th most optimistic projections of airliner sales for th next 20 years show that airliner manufactur can only b profitabl ifa smallnumber of aircraft builders shar th availabl sales. It followsthatifnewmanufacturers com intoth marketandtak sales， their sales must com from substitution，not expansion. Given th complexityof today ‘sairliners， it isunlikely that any new entrantwill hav both th financial and technical resources to com into th market without th involvement of an established manufacturer. In th short term， such involvementmay not b to th exclusiv benefit of th new entrant： most of th established manufacturers ar searchingforways toreduc costs ofmanufacture. 中国考博辅导首选学校 Inth shortterm，itcanb ofbenefit toan establishedWestern manufacturer tohav eithercomponentsofcomplet air –framesmad or assembled in lower-wag economics such a China，Taiwan or Korea， whil retaining th design， development and marketing of aircraft for itself. Itwould b a very unwis Western manufacturer which did noth dth factthatthes developingeconomiesar acquiringskills (lik computing ) at least as quickly