高三英语词汇练习分层（一）
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Michael Dell started a PC company in his dormitory room while attending the University of Texas in Austin. The company whiz (奇才) had a new idea: to sell directly to the consumer without theof retailers（零售商）.
At that time, IBM personal computers sold in stores for about $3,000. After taking them for one-fourth of the price if bought in large quantities. And he intended to compete with IBM.
The public was becoming more interested in computers and wanted more models, but no one was producing them. In early May, a week before his final exams, Michael started his Dell Computer Corporation with only $1,000. He took his exams, and then dropped out of college at the end of his freshman year. It was time to try out his direct-to-the-customer business .
Dell found out soon enough that necessity is the mother of. “I learned by doing and by making mistakes. And I got smart people to help,” he says. Today Dell is a $57 billion company, with themarket share in the United States.
About his marketing brainchild---sell directly to the customer---Dell told employees in an e-mail: “The Direct Model has been a revolution, but it is not a .” he intends to improve it and look for new
and distribution models. The goal is to give customers what they need and make the technology simple and easier to use.
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The most famous British polar explorer was Captain Scott, a naval official who led two expeditions （探险队）to the Antarctic. The first expedition left England in August 1901 aboard the Discovery, abuilt wooden ship. They discovered the great ice-cap surroundings the South Pole and reached a point further south than anyone before them. The second expedition sailed in the whaling ship Terra Nova, andup a
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