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Business Giants In the 20th century, businesses and industry changed in many ways. The “industrial age” ended and the “information age” began. But one famous information age company, IBM, actually started operations in the 19th century, in 1889. Now, an IT giant, IBM employs over 350,000 people around the world and has a revenue of about $100 billion. In its early days, the company made business machines for time-keeping and data-processing, and it marketed its products in the USA and Canada. IBM didn’t develop the first totally electronic and digital computer but they designed and produced the first digital computers for commercial purposes. Digital technology is essential to the success of companies such as Vodafone, one of the biggest telecommunications network companies in the world. Vodafone provides mobile phone services to over 200 million customers in nearly 30 countries. In 1984, the company started operating one of only tw
A. were originally business partners in Ireland.
B. met in the USA and became business partners.
C. came to the USA together to start a business.
Egyptian wine has an extensive history within the history of Egyptian civilization. Grapes were not (1) to the landscape of Egypt, rather the vines themselves are (2) to have been imported from the Phoenicians, (3) the actual origins remain in (4) . What is known, is that (5) the third millennium BC, Egyptian kings of the first (6) had extensive wine cellars, and wine was used extensively in the temple ceremonies. The main (7) of wine in Egypt. took place between the king, nobles, and the priests in temple ceremonies, and is (8) by numerous painted relief’ s, and other (9) evidence. The vineyards of ancient Egypt, were quite different from the modern methods of wine making today. (10) viticulture (or wine making) ,ceased to (11) an exclusively ceremonial purpose, the Egyptians began to experiment with simple structures for their vines to train on, (12) found a way to
A. rather than
B. but
C. and
D. in order to
甲公司所有的厂房位于某城市中心，于1986年4月30日建成投入使用。建筑结构为框架结构，厂房的经济寿命为50年。甲公司于2006年4月将该厂房转让给乙公司，转让后乙公司将厂房改建为百货超市，并补交了土地使用权出让金，将土地变更为商业用途，土地使用期限为40年。自2006年4月30日起至2046年4月29日止，约定不可续期。2008年4月30日，乙公司以该商业房地产作价出资成立合资公司。
下列关于该宗房地产由工业用途改为商业用途的表述中正确的是（）。我来回答:
