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將……外包出去
venues 時間或活動的發生地，舉辦地，場地
overhead 開銷，日常開支，管理費用
美國企業實施削減成本措施的壓力越來越大，最終將導致將業務流程外包給管理費用較低的場所，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 風氣，思潮
be oriented to sth/doing以……為方向的，重視……的
preserve 維持原狀，保護
然而，這種轉變可能不會為美國企業帶來預期的巨大收益，因為美國企業的改變的風氣是以維護最低利潤為導向的。
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 占主導地位地，顯著地，占優勢地
opt for v.選擇
repetitive 重復的，反復乏味的
take sb to task批評某人(這是一個小擴展)
困難在于，美國社會的很大一部分人仍然對將商業任務轉移到海外感到不安。
因此，美國企業將主要選擇重復性工作的外包機會，因為如果必要的話，這些機會可以很容易地被帶回美國，
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，不過，表示相反
back-office 后勤
be bound to 不得不
scope 范圍，機會，施展余地
novel 新穎的，長篇小說
然而，印度公司獲得更大一塊蛋糕的機會似乎肯定會出現。越來越多的人強調降低后勤業務的成本，這勢必會為印度公司提供越來越大的空間，讓它們參與到新的、更加復雜的商業流程中。
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 (預后，判斷)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
