【正文】 m market for decades, but ultimately failed to adapt to the digital many attribute Kodak’s downfall to “placency(自滿),” that explanation doesn’t acknowledge the lengths to which the pany went to reinvent ago, Kodak anticipated that digital photography would overtake film — and in fact, Kodak invented the first digital camera in 1975 — but in a fateful decision, the pany chose to shelf its new discovery to focus on its traditional film wasn’t that Kodak was blind to the future, said Rebecca Henderson, a professor at Harvard Business School, but rather that it failed to execute on a strategy to confront the time the pany realized its mistake, it was too is an example of a firm that was very much aware that they had to adapt, and spent a lot of money trying to do so, but ultimately panies have a difficult time switching into new markets because there is a temptation to put existing assets into the new Kodak anticipated the inevitable rise of digital photography, its corporate（企業(yè)的）culture was too rooted in the successes of the past for it to make the clean break necessary to fully embrace the were a pany stuck in history was so important to their history has bee a ’s downfall over the last several decades was 1976, the pany manded 90% of the market for photographic film and 85% of the market for the 1980s brought new petition from Japanese film pany Fuji Photo, which undermined Kodak by offering lower prices for film and photo ’s decision not to pursue the role of official film for the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics was a major bid went instead to Fuji, which exploited its sponsorship to win a permanent foothold in the do we learn about Kodak?A)It went bankrupt all of a )It is approaching its )It initiated the digital revolution in the film )It is playing a dominant role in the film does the author mention Kodak’s invention of the first digital camera?A)To show its early attempt to reinvent )To show its effort to overe )To show its quick adaptation to the digital )To show its will to pete with Japan’s Fuji do large panies have difficulty switching to new markets?A)They find it costly to give up their existing )They tend to be slow in confronting new )They are unwilling to invest in new )They are deeply stuck in their glorious does the author say Kodak’s history has bee?A)A )A )A )A was Kodak’s fatal mistake?A)Its blind faith in traditional )Its failure to see Fuji photo’s )Its refusal to sponsor the 1984 )Its overconfidence in its corporate culture.第三篇：2010年6月大學(xué)英語四級考試真題2010年6月大學(xué)英語四級考試真題(參考范文)What Electives to ChooseNowadays, there exist a wide range of electives in college which are ready for the undergraduates to choose courses make the students’ college life more , as for the purpose of choosing electives, different students have different students choose more electives just to get more knowledge, so that they could be wellprepared in the future students just want to extend their students believe the knowledge in the pulsory course textbooks is should choose more courses in order that they could enjoy more colorful , others have no definite aims and they just want to finish their far as I am concerned, I just want to learn more for my future life and don’t care about the scores I have just want to be a man having a sharp and imaginative mind with different knowledge which is beyond my I think the possession of much more knowledge can make my future life easier and more interesting and broaden my in the visa process their knowledge and skills back home the nation percentage of people living in cities is much higher than the percentage working in industry is not enough money to build adequate houses for the people that live there, let alone the new arrivals the figures for the growth of towns and cities represent proportional growth of unemployment andunderemployment to a series of new inventions am more likely/inclined to get tired than before is more convenient and timesaving/less timeconsuming measured by how much they can loan第四篇：大學(xué)英語四級翻譯真題2014年12月 大學(xué)英語四級考試真題（第一套）大熊貓是一種溫順的動物，長著獨(dú)特的黑白皮毛。大熊貓對于世界自然基金會有著特殊意義。大熊貓是熊科中最稀有的成員，主要生活在中國西南部的森林里。這些以竹為食的動物正面臨許多威脅。Panda is a kind of docile animal, with unique black and white of its scarcity, panda has been listed as th