Next year, if all goes as planned, the largest maker of personal computers in Asia will be

Next year, if all goes as planned, the largest maker of personal computers in Asia will become the third largest in the world.

Lenovo Group Limited of China is buying the (67) computer business of the American company IBM International Business Machines (68) millions of people their first PCs; Now it is getting out of the business of selling (69) . Aggressive competition in the industry has cut the (70) in sales.

The deal is (71) one thousand seven hundred fifty million dollars. This includes five hundred million dollars in debt that Lenovo will take (72) from IBM. Lenovo will be third in worldwide (73) behind the American companies Dell and Hewlett-Packard.

Ten thousand IBM (74) will go to work for Lenovo. The American company already has (75) employees in China. IBM will (76) a nineteen percent share in Lenovo. And IBM will continue to offer services, the most (77) part of its personal computer business.

IBM helped (78) the market for personal computers in nineteen eighty-one with a machine that became very popular. The computer used an (79) system made by a small company, Microsoft. Another small company provided the microprocessor, the (80) of a computer. That was Intel. Intel and Microsoft grew highly profitable.

But soon, less (81) computers appeared. IBM saw its market share (82) . In the end, it stopped making its personal computers itself.

The Gartner research group (83) that IBM had a five percent share of the world PC market this year. Lenovo had two percent. But it controls (84) of the Chinese market, the largest in Asia.

Chinese companies are moving to (85) their international business holdings (份额). This (86) is one of the biggest yet. Lenovo will be able to use the IBM name for five years.

【C1】

A．single

B．personal

C．individual

D．private