商务英语考试

【单选题】

A、winning idea
Alan Robinson left school at 16 hoping to make as much money as possible.At first, he worked for his father, who owned several newsagents, shops in London. "I learnt a great deal about running a business from being in a small shop. You find out that every penny matters." Then he took a job as a salesman for a food manufacturer, and a couple of years later he was offered a job by his uncle. "He asked me to manage a chain of bookshops he had in SouthAfrica and taught me everything I know about management."
When he came back toBritain,Alan was offered a job in London as a product development manager with an exciting new clothes company called Naismith’s. He felt immediately at home there. "I found really understood the fashion business and what influences products, so I was able to take the design team’s ideas and turn them into commercially successful products."
One day in the warehouse he noticed a range of sports clothes that had been sent front a manufacturer in New York for the company to look at. "I took the clothes round the office and everyone loved them.At the time, most sports clothes were not very fashionable, so this range was something new." Robinson then tried to persuade his boss to sell these clothes. However, she was happy with the way things were and, feeling disappointed,Alan decided to leave and try to sell them himself.
Robinson went to New York just to talk to the manufacturer. He went with his father and they took￡12,000 from savings to buy stock.Alan says, "We tried for a whole week to get an interview with the manufacturer and he refused us three times.But finally he gave in and he became our main supplier." On his return, Robinson successfully sold the clothes to small fashion and sports shops, and he began to start producing designs of his own.
"Then, I had my big break when I received a phone call from F&G, one of the largest department stores. They had heard about Robinson Sportswear from the trade journals." F&G were looking for good quality spoils clothes to expand their limited range and asked Robinson to produce items especially for them. Over the next three years Rte company became his biggest customer.
Robinson Sportswear now makes profits of ￡2.3m on sales of ￡10m and Robinson himself is worth over ￡21m. "Money doesn’t matter to me--what’s really exciting is making deals.\
What wasAlan’s big opportunity
A、He appeared in a trade journal.
B、He won a major contract.
C、He was offered a profitable merger.
网考网参考答案：B
网考网解析：
Alan的最大机遇是赢得了一份大合同，使F&G成为他的主要客户，而不是出现在贸易刊物上或合并了什么公司。 document.getElementById("warp").style.display="none"; document.getElementById("content").style.display="block"; 查看试题解析出处>>