2015年考研英语二阅读Text 1原文翻译如下：
The world is going through the biggest wave of mergers and acquisitions ever witnessed. The process sweeps from hyperactive America to Europe and reaches the emerging countries with unsurpassed might. Many in these countries are looking at this process and worrying: " Won't the wave of business concentration turn into an uncontrollable anti-competitive force?"
There's no question that the big are getting bigger and more powerful. Multinational corporations accounted for less than 20% of international trade in 1982. Today, the figure is more than 25%, and growing rapidly. International affiliates operate in more than 100 countries. In 1988, worldwide sales of the top 300 multinational corporations amounted to nearly half of total global exports. The trend in the United States is similar. There's hardly an industry, or even a single company, that does not feel the force of competition from foreign companies. The United States is, as one observer put it, "up for grabs."
So, who is going to regulate all these giant companies? One possibility is for government to act as the protector of competition, against monopolies, or at least against monopolistic practices. Another possibility is for private groups to seek out those anti-competitive practices. One action they might take is to refuse to sell or license patents to the companies that abuse the patent system, or even break the law.
Another possible solution is the creation of a private sector competition commission. Self-regulation, however, appears to be an impossible option. Moreover, one could argue that self-regulation carries an element of bias as well. One of the problems is that the business community has no real representative if it sets up its own competition committees. It also doesn't have a group that can represent the general interest of consumers. This isn't a new idea, of course, but it remains a difficult problem.
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