The increasing pressure on American businessesto pursue cost-cutting measures will eventually lead to an increase in theoutsourcing of business processes to venues with lower overhead, such as India.However, this shift may not provide the dramatic gains for American businessthat might have been expected by an enterprise with an ethos for change that isoriented to preserving bottom-line profits. The difficulty is that asignificant portion of American society remains uncomfortable with shiftingbusiness tasks overseas. Therefore, American businesses will predominantly optfor outsourcing opportunities for repetitive tasks that can easily be broughtback to the United States if necessary. Nevertheless, opportunities for Indian firmsto get a larger piece of the pie seem certain to arise. The growing emphasis onbringing down the cost of back-office operations is bound to offer increasingscope for Indian firms to become involved in novel types of ever more complexbusiness processes.

The increasing pressure on American businessesto pursue cost-cutting measures will eventually lead to an increase in theoutsourcing of business processes to venues with lower overhead, such as India.

outsource … to将……外包出去

venues 时间或活动的发生地，举办地，场地

overhead 开销，日常开支，管理费用

美国企业实施削减成本措施的压力越来越大，最终将导致将业务流程外包给管理费用较低的场所，如印度。

However,this

shift may not provide the dramatic gains for American business that mighthave been expected by an enterprise with an ethos for change that is orientedto preserving bottom-line profits.

ethos 风气，思潮

be oriented to sth/doing以……为方向的，重视……的

preserve 维持原状，保护

然而，这种转变可能不会为美国企业带来预期的巨大收益，因为美国企业的改变的风气是以维护最低利润为导向的。

The difficulty is that a significant portion ofAmerican society remains uncomfortable with shifting business tasks overseas.Therefore, American businesses will predominantly opt for outsourcingopportunities for repetitive tasks that can easily be brought back to theUnited States if necessary.

predominantly 占主导地位地，显著地，占优势地

opt for v.选择

repetitive 重复的，反复乏味的

take sb to task批评某人(这是一个小扩展)

困难在于，美国社会的很大一部分人仍然对将商业任务转移到海外感到不安。

因此，美国企业将主要选择重复性工作的外包机会，因为如果必要的话，这些机会可以很容易地被带回美国，

Nevertheless, opportunities for Indian firms toget a larger piece of the pie seem certain to arise. The growing emphasis onbringing down the cost of back-office operations is bound to offer increasingscope for Indian firms to become involved in novel types of ever more complexbusiness processes.

nevertheless 然而，不过，表示相反

back-office 后勤

be bound to 不得不

scope 范围，机会，施展余地

novel 新颖的，长篇小说

然而，印度公司获得更大一块蛋糕的机会似乎肯定会出现。越来越多的人强调降低后勤业务的成本，这势必会为印度公司提供越来越大的空间，让它们参与到新的、更加复杂的商业流程中。

The primary purpose of the passage is to

A：present an overview of the differenttypes of business opportunities available to Indian firms

B：present a reasoned prognosis (预后，判断)of the business opportunities that maybecome available to Indian firms

C：present the trend toward outsourcing business operations as a model case ofbusiness operations in action

D：analyze how opportunities available toIndian firms were necessitated by an increasing number of American firms

E：analyze the use of cost-cutting measures

as a substitute(代替物) for outsourcingin the new American business climate