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单选题Each year Universum, a Swedish consulting firm asks American MBA students where they would most like to work. The 2007 survey showed a few surprises in its top 50 companies named: Hewlett-Packard and Cisco Systems had fell, while old reliables such as General Electric, Coca-Cola and General Mills had jumped up the list. But the most-desired industry remains consulting, despite the beating it has taken since the end of the dotcom boom, and the top firm remains McKinsey. Perhaps the reason is: in recent years McKinsey has done as much as any company to provide MBA graduates with increasingly better and more profitable positions. The reason for this was the firm's popularization of a concept known as "war for talent". It advocated finding the best and brightest and rewarding their innovations (创新) in proportion to "talent" instead of their performance or seniority (资格). But what is talent? And how does a company measure its employees' talent, especially when assigning them to new projects? The "war for talent" recommends a careful assessment of the inner skills and characteristics ready for success but gives few clues as to what those inner skills might be, which might make the war standardless. For a company focused on quick growth, one shortcut could be young hires who had already been rewarded for their talent by receiving MBAs from well-respected schools. Thus as the idea of finding talented employees who could quickly learn the skills took off, so did the asking price of the star MBA graduates. Unfortunately, now the "war for talent" seems less of a brilliant idea. The economic downturn, bringing with it less competition for the available talent, also did its part to control in indulgent (宽容的) employers. Similarly, Professor Jeffrey Pfeffer emphasized that cultivating a talent means not just hiring the most effective performers, but being able to deal quickly and firmly with the least effective C performers. But he adds that the C refers not to the person but to the individual's performance in a given job. Some low-performing managers were A or B performers earlier in their careers—and may attain that level of performance again. MBA programs will remain attractive recruiting areas, but the MBA model itself has come under increasing criticism. Prof. Pfeffer, in a 2007 article found little evidence that an MBA had much effect on future salary or career. Future MBA students might need to provide more evidence of their talent to impress potential employers.
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单选题The primary reason that President Bush starts new education reforms is that ______.
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Andrew Carnegie, American industrialist
and philanthropist, made a fortune by manufacturing iron and steel protected by
customs tariff. In 1873, on one of his frequent trips to England, he met Henry
Bessemer and became convinced that the industrial future lay in steel. He built
the J. Edgar Thomson Steel Mills near Pittsburgh, and from that moment on, the
Carnegie Empire was one of constant expansion. Later on, the Carnegie Steel Co.
became an immense organization. It included all the processes of steel
production from the great furnaces and finishing mills of Pittsburgh to the lake
steamers that moved the ores and the finished products. Like his
grandfather, Andrew Carnegie did not abandon the radical idealism of his
forebears for the benefit of the working class and tile poor people. In spite of
his espousal (支持) of Hebert Spencer's philosophy and the social Darwinism of the
period, Carnegie remained deeply committed to many of the Chartist (宪章运动) ideals
of his boyhood, He believed in the social responsibility of the man of wealth to
society. He must serve as a steward for the fortune he has earned and use that
fortune to provide greater opportunity for all and to increase man's knowledge
of himself and of his universe. Furthermore, Carnegie considers that the
dispensation of wealth for the benefit of society must never be in the form of
free charity but rather must be as a support to the community's responsibility
for its own people. When Carnegie died in Lenox, Massachusetts
on August 11, 1919, most of his fortune was already gone. People wonder that if
Carnegie had known this when he was alive, he would have spread most of his
wealth to the poor people.
单选题Questions 13 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
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Questions 23 to 25 are based on the passage you have just
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单选题Earlier this year I met with a group of women in Matela, a small farming village in Tanzania, and we discussed something that"s been on all of our minds lately: finding a safe place to save money. The women said their babies were getting sick from
malaria
(疟疾), and they could afford the drugs if they saved money over time—but with no access to formal savings accounts, they had a hard time safeguarding cash. So they saved in risky and inefficient ways. They made loans to each other, or bought goats or jewelry, then sold them if they suddenly needed money.
The success of microloans has opened new opportunities for many poor people and has been a crucial factor in reducing poverty. But loans are not enough. Savings accounts could help people in the developing world with unexpected events, accumulate money to invest in education, increase their productivity and income, and build their financial security. Fortunately, this is a moment of opportunity. New policy ideas are uniting in ways that will lower the cost of savings and bring safe financial services to the doorsteps of the poor.
One exciting trend is agent banking, in which stores and post offices serve as banking outlets. Banks still manage and guarantee the deposits, but they rely on the
infrastructure
(基础设施) of other outlets to deal with clients where there are no bank branches.
The phenomenal growth of mobile phones in the developing world presents another opportunity. M-Pesa, the mobile-phone cash-transfer service in Kenya, has signed up more than 5 million subscribers in two years and recently expanded to Tanzania. This new idea is opening markets and transforming lives. A split-second M-Pesa transaction costs as little as 30 cents and replaces a day of risk and expense just to send someone money or carry earnings home.
At the Gates Foundation, it has been committed more than $350 million to make financial services widely accessible to the poor because safe places to save can help break the cycle of poverty. If action is taken on this moment, then within a generation, billions of people will have the chance to build up their savings and live the healthy, productive lives that they deserve.
单选题A．Friends.B．Policeofficerandresearcher.C．Colleagues.D．Policeofficerandprogramhostess.
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单选题A) increase C) promote B) enhance D) enlighten