职称英语考试

【单选题】Brotherly LoveAdidas and Puma have been two of the biggest names in sports shoe manufacturing for over half a century.Since 1928 they have supplied shoes for Olympic athletes, WorldCup-winning football heroes, MuhammadAli, hip hop stars and rock musicians famous all over the worl
D、But the story of these two companies begins in one house in the town of Herzogenaurach, Germany.Adolph and RudolphDassler were the sons of a shoemaker. They loved sport but complained that they could never find comfortable shoes to play in. Rudolph always said, “You cannot play sports wearing shoes that you’d walk around town with. ” So they started making their own. In 1920Adolph made the first pair of athletics shoes with spikes (IP , produced on theDasslers’ kitchen table.On 1st July 1924 they formed a shoe company,DasslerBrothers Ltd and they worked together for many years. The company became successful and it provided the shoes for Germany’s athletes at the 1928 and 1932 Olympic Games.But in 1948 the brothers argue
D、No one knows exactly what happened, but family members have suggested that the argument was about money or women. The result was thatAdolph left the company. His nickname wasAdi, and using this and the first three letters of the family name,Dassler, he foundedAdidas.Rudolph relocated across the RiverAurach and founded his own company too.At first he wanted to call it Ruda, but eventually he called it Puma, after the wild cat. The famous Puma logo of the jumping cat has hardly changed since.After the big split of 1948Adolph and Rudolph never spoke to each other again and their companies have now been in competition for over sixty years.Both companies were for many years the market leaders, thoughAdidas has always been more successful than Pum
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A、hip hop group, RunDMC, has even written a song called “MyAdidas” and in 2005Adidas bought Reebok, another big sports shoe company.The terrible family argument should really be forgotten, but ever since it happened, over sixty years ago, the town has been split into two.Even now, someAdidas employees and Puma employees don’t talk to each other. The brothers decided to start their separate companies after argument.
A、Right
B．Wrong

C、Not mentioned

网考网参考答案：A
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【解析】题意：争吵之后兄弟俩决定建立各自的公司。 　　第五、六两段分别写了两人争吵之后建立公司的细节。所以题干说法是正确的。故选A。 document.getElementById("warp").style.display="none"; document.getElementById("content").style.display="block"; 查看试题解析出处>>