1.
A. Wall-Mart has increased its Procter and Gamble diaper business by 50 percent and cut inventory by 70
percent because of this collaboration.
B. Several years ago, senior executives from Procter and Gamble and Wal-Mart met for two days.
C. As a result of this meeting, a team of Procter and Gamble employees moved to Bentonville, Arkansas, Wal-
Mart’s headquarters, to work with Wal-Mart executives on productivity and quality issues.
D. They wanted to explore how they could jointly apply quality management principles to the disposable diaper
business.
2.
A. These early faith expressed the wonder and mystery that seems always to have been essential component of the human experience of this beautiful yet terrifying world.
B. Men and women started to worship gods as soon as they became recognisably human;they created religious as the same time as they created works of art.
C. This was not simply because they wanted to propitiate powerful forces.
D. The study of history of religion has revealed that human beings are spiritual animals. Indeed, there is a case for arguing that Homo sapiens is also Homo religious.
3.
A. Ultimately, the scientist say, this approach could enable the design and the construction of new buildings that would not be feasible with traditional building methods.
B. Researchers have developed a system that can 3-D print the basic structure of an entire building.
C. Even the internal structure could be modified in new ways; different materials could be incorporated as the process goes along.
D. Structure built with this system could be produced faster and less expensively than traditional construction methods allow.