[單項選擇題] Passage Three
Successful businesses tend to continue implementing the ideas that made them successful. But in a rapidly changing world, ideas often become obsolete overnight. What worked in the past won’t necessarily work in the future. In order to thrive in the future, you must constantly create new ideas for every aspect of your business. In fact, you must continually generate new ideas just to keep your head above water. Businesses that aren’t creative about their future may not survive.
Although Bill Gates is the richest, most successful man on the planet, he did not anticipate the Internet. Now he’s scrambling to catch up. If Bill Gates can miss a major aspect of his industry, it can happen to you in your industry. Your business needs to continually innovate and create its future. Gates is now constan

A．the Cabbage Patch Kids dolls were the best-selling toy on the market

B．the Cabbage Patch Kids dolls are sensational line of dolls

C．complacency and lack of creation will ultimately ruin a business

D．the most successful businesses survive in the long term

C

這是一道推論題。題干中的信號詞為Coleco Industries，出自于文章第三段第二句話中。文章第三段指出：在柯勒克產業公司引進了了不起的玩具生產線之后，它們就開始自滿了，沒有生產出任何值得一提的新玩具；結果，柯勒克公司在1988年破產了。由此可知， 自滿和沒有創新意識可能導致一個企業破產。C說“自滿和缺乏創新最終將使一個企業破產”，這與文章的意思符合。A是文中明確指出的，所以不對；文中沒有提到B；D與該例子的意思相反。