高考英语二轮复习限时专题训练36说明文型阅读简答(1).pdfVIP

专题限时训练 ( 三十六 ) [ 说明文型阅读简答 ( 一)] ( 限时：每篇 10 分钟 ) A The earthquake and tsunami have caused huge humanand material losses in Japan, and the threat of unclear radiation has added to people ’s sadness. Some of the factories will have to move outside the country to ensure its business. Owing to the level of the damage to Japanese factories and infrastructure, it will be weeks or even months before the country ’s supply chain returns to normal and its manufacturing level gets back to its previous level. While most factories will be running as usual in the next few months, it is likely that some of the older and less efficient ones will be shut down. It will thus be cheaper and easier to use manufacturing bases in China and other low-cost countries than to rebuild the factories in Japan. One example of the changes in Japanese companies ’ strategy is that less than half of the automobile manufacturing capacity of Toyota, Nissan, and Honda is in Japan. With the triple disasters affecting in Japan, its automobile companies are expected to keep increasing manufacturing outside the country, and China looks like an appropriate destination for that. A similar strategy applies to consumer products such as TV sets, music players and mobile handsets. Companies such as Sony have already moved much of their manufacturing to other countries, and this trend will continue. The production of many semiconductor products will steadily move outside Japan, too with perhaps the establishment of strategic relationships with other countries. Is this trend bad for Japan? No, if new industries are built