Passage 1

The Internet will play a central role in conducting international trade beyond the year 2000. The World Trade Centers Association (WTCA) recently announced a plan to assist developing countries develop a capacity for e-commerce and e-business. The spin off from this decision can pay huge dividends to offshore companies that position themselves on-line right now to supply goods and services to the coming global Internet trading market.

E-business will help you get set up and operate with a minimum of effort and at reasonable prices.

E-business Incorporated works with international companies to set up a web-office, or CyberSuite as its own domain accessible over the Internet via its own domain name or from the e-business Cyberspace Station.

If you are a supplier, your CyberSuite would have a showroom where visitors — especially wholesale importers and distributors — can examine images, drawings or listings of what you have to offer. If you are a buyer, your web-office can include a notice board listing products or services or agreements you are looking for and a bidding gallery where suppliers can post bids and link you to their sites to examine products. Trading partners can make purchases, send invoices, hold business meetings, track shipments, and work out potential trade agreements within the E-business Cyberspace Station. E-business seminars and conferences will introduce new potential trade partners to each other.

Orders placed on the site are sent immediately to manufacturers and any suppliers integrated into the trade process. For example, established trading partners might include an importer ordering large shipments from a manufacturer and suppliers of parts or raw materials in other countries. By electronically notifying the whole trade net at the same time, each partner is able to trim supply and demand to “just in time” delivery of goods or services. The savings of doing business this way can be substantial — even without the tax advantages.

31、E-business Incorporated can help a company to______.

一旦有人跟你联系，就要回应。(once)

工业革命改变了整个英国的社会结构。(modify, structure)

供水条件的改善会给健康带来巨大的影响。 (water supply, have an effect on)

那个计划一开始就注定要失败。(be doomed to)

我怎么也意想不到那个时候他会突然出现。(pop up)

information privacy

阅读下面的短文，然后把划线的句子翻译成汉语。

(71)[Customer Relationship Management (CRM) provides your company with new ways of better understanding and serving your customer.] In July 1998, when Intel began taking orders over the Internet, it also premiered a new Web-based system to deliver confidential documents to its B2B direct customers. (72) [This service, known as Information Desk, along with other new Web-based information delivery services, has enabled the company and its direct, indirect and channel customers to work together more efficiently.] In Intel’s case, there were several reasons for deploying CRM, including: 

· With Web-based information delivery, everyone can get important information at the same time no matter where they are located.

 · (73) [The first release of Intel’s information delivery system slashed document delivery time from as much as two to three weeks to an average of three days. Now, it’s a matter of minutes.]

· Extend reach without adding staff. Intel has added services to upwards of 75,000 global resellers.

· (74) [As a result of getting confidential documents faster, three-fourths of Intel’s direct customer engineers shaved a week or more off their product development cycle.]

When it came to designing the system, Intel used best-of-breed, off-the-shelf applications and modified them to meet the needs of their customers. Indirect customers received an Electronic Design Kit (EDK) to help develop their own products and solutions.

(75) [And because CRM is a field in which new applications appear frequently, it was important to develop a flexible software architecture and an agile hardware nfrastructure.] Intel runs its CRM systems on dual and 4-way Intel-based servers, with back-end databases distributed over 8-way Intel-based servers. This gives the company a powerful, flexible and highly available infrastructure.

global marketplace

direct billing

legal counsel