五、 语段排序题专项突破练习
Exercise 1
Part B
Directions:
The following paragraphs are given in a wrong order. For Questions 4145,you are required to reorganize these paragraphs into a coherent article by choosing from the list AG to fill in each numbered box. The first and the last paragraphs have been placed for you in Boxes. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1.(10 points)
[A] Foremost on every potential buyers list of concerns is debt. The average South
Korean Company is leveraged four times over its equity, which is why so many are desperate to liquidate assets. But because Koreas currency lost half its value last year, many Korean executives believe—mistakenly—that foreign buyers will find their wares attractive in spite of their debts, analysts says.
[B] Despite such aversion to foreign ownership, some deals are going through. Directors of Bank of Asia are believed to have approved the sale of a stake in their midsized bank to Dutch bank ABNAmro. For the Bank of Thailand, the central bank, the ABNAmro deal will send a muchneeded signal that the country is welcoming foreign capital.