The McDonalds Corporation. has become a powerful symbol of Americas service economy, the sector now responsible for ninety percent of the countrys new jobs. In 1968, McDonalds operated about 1,000 restaurants. Today it has about 23,000 restaurants worldwide and opens roughly 2,000 new ones each year. An estimated one of every eight Americans has worked at McDonalds. The company annually trains more new workers than the U.S. Army. McDonalds is the nations largest purchaser of beef and potatoes. It is the second-largest purchaser of poultry.
Questions 30 to 32 are based on the passage you have just heard.
30. Why do American women go out to work?
31. How does the fast-food industry benefit from the changes of the American economy?
32. How many new restaurants does McDonalds open every day?
Passage Three
There are many computer users who are wondering if they should be putting their computers to sleep at the end of the day or if they should actually shut them down. Sleep mode was originally implemented simply as a screen saver. On laptop computers it became very useful for conserving battery power if the computer was to remain idle for a period of time. Later, the monitor companies got on the green computing kick, and began to build in energy saver features that would put just the monitor to sleep, but not the computer. So now the purpose of the desktops sleep became a) to conserve power, and b) to let the computer rest.
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