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[单项选择]CYCLES MOVE WITH THE TIMES
Times have been hard for the UK cycle industry. Poor weather and competition from abroad have had a serious effect on sales. Manufacturers have had to cut back and last month more than 40 job losses were announced at Cycle World, one of the country’s main bicycle factories in Leicester. But the company says it is fighting to win back customers, using such strategies as improved after-sales and bikes built to specific customer requirements.
Two years ago, Cycle World sold off its bike-making machinery in an effort to cut costs and save money. The company’s Leicester factory is now only an assembly plant as most of the parts are imported.
The company produces half a million bikes a year across the full Cycle World range, with nearly all of these being sold in the UK. Production is largely done by hand. Workers use the batch production method - everyone making up to 600 bikes of a particular model at any one time.
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[单项选择]Since the earliest times, trees have always been very useful and important to man who made use of them in numerous (众多的) ways for his daily life. Even today trees continue to serve man in so many useful ways.
Trees provide man with food, fuel for burning and building material in the form of wood. Without trees it would be impossible to build houses, boats and even bridges. Furniture such as tables, chairs and cupboards are also made from wood.
In the tropics (热带) where it is very warm throughout the year, trees protect man from the fierce heat of the sun. They are useful in preventing good and fertile top soil from being washed away during heavy rains which are so common in the tropics.
If there are no trees or vegetation (植物) of some sort to hold back the soil with their roots, heavy rains would wash away the rich surface soil so essential for agriculture. The result is that the land becomes useless and unproductive.
There are many desert areas in the world. A long
A. early man did not know how to make use of trees
B. trees are not as useful now as they were in the past
C. trees were more useful in the past than they are now
D. men have always found trees useful