Read the following paragraphs and answer the questions.Wal-Mart,

Read the following paragraphs and answer the questions.
Wal-Mart, in fact, is the first service company to rise to the top of the Fortune 500.
(Before 1994, Fortune listed service and industrial companies separately, but no service company was ever larger than the top industrial ones.) When Fortune first published its list of the largest companies in America in 1955, Wal-Mart didn't even exist. That year General Motors was America's biggest company, and in every year that followed, either GM or another mighty industrial, Exxon5, was No.1.6 Wal-Mart's achievement caps
a bigger economic shift7—from producing goods to providing services—that's been happening for years. Manufacturing's share of U.S. employment peaked in 1953, at 35%.
It has been declining steadily since.8 In the decade that will end in 2010, the Bureau of Labor Statistics9 figures that goods-producing industries (brawny work like mining,
construction, and manufacturing) will create 1.3 million new jobs, compared to 20 million for service industries. To look at it another way, today there are about four times as many people working in service jobs as in other血ds of jobs.
回答问题
What major economic shift does Wal-Mart's rise to the top of the Fortune 500 symbolize?
A、A shift from retail to wholesale industries.
B、A shift from industrial production to service provision.
C、A shift from service industries to manufacturing.
D、A shift from local to global economic dominance.
【正确答案】：B
【题目解析】：Answer: B. A shift from industrial production to service provision.