填空题You will hear five short recordings. For each recording, decide which aspect of working conditions the speaker is talking about. Write one letter(A-H)next to the number of the recording. Do not use any letter more than once. After you have listened once, replay the recordings.A career prospectsB health and safetyC working hoursD holiday allowanceE training coursesF disciplinary proceduresG job securityH pay increases
填空题 · Look at the form below. · You will hear
people introducing each other.
(5)______ and Miss Song, the marketing manager of (6)______
picked up George, the (7)______ manager of Bain's (8)______ Department.
填空题·Read the article below about decision making psychology. ·Choose the
best sentence from the opposite page to fill each of the gaps. ·For each gap
8-12, mark one letter (A-G). ·Do not use any letter more than once.
·There is one extra letter which you do not need to use.
Decision Making Psychology Made
Simple Decisions decisions! Understanding
decision making psychology can enable you to reach a conclusion quicker. Whether
it's choosing a holiday destination, or project to fund. you'll find this
outline of decision making psychology a useful addition to your management
toolkit. Making up your own mind should (in theory at least) be
the easiest after all, there's only one person involved!
So we'll skip onto the more challenging area of group decision making.
Somehow. out of the personality clashes,power struggles and hidden agendas, a
perfect solution is expected to emerge...... In group decision
making, there are a number of methods that can be applied,{{U}} (8)
{{/U}}The methods that are closer to the directive range, mean that the
decision is made by a limited, small number of decision makers in the group. The
methods that are lower on the spectrum.towards the participatory range, mean
that the decision is made by all the parties involved.
Individual Dominance is where one person in the group has
the authority or power to make the final decision. Minority
Minority usually takes the form of decisions delegated from
larger groups and made by sub-committees. Majority Rules
usually involve the group voting on the alternatives and the alternative
receiving the most votes, wins. Consensus is achieved through
group discussion of the alternatives, where every group member can agree on an
option and commit to the outcome. Directive decision making is
great when time is tight and decisions need made fast, The risk is that
decisions made by one person are owned by one person. People affected by the
decision can soon make their feelings known by their actions. {{U}}(9)
{{/U}}If there is a low or negative bank account between people involved,
there may be trouble ahead! {{U}} (10) {{/U}}In simple
terms, people want to be involved.Regardless of power or status, knowing you
have control and influence over your working life increases satisfaction and
productivity. It is well known in the caring professions that
offering choice helps speed recovery. The bed-bound patient who is asked whether
they want their curtains open or closed, or has a plant to care for. fares
better than those whose life is entirely managed by other people,Involving more
people in decision making is risky. It takes more time. It requires
skilled facilitation. It doesn't guarantee success.{{U}} (11) {{/U}}
Decision making psychology is simple-involvement gets results.
Although power struggles, personality clashes and hidden agendas are scary
territory, over time,power dissipates, people get on and agendas become more
transparent.{{U}} (12) {{/U}}The decision to work this way is yours!
A.To increase your chance of a decision being accepted, a more
participatory approach is recommended. B.But what it does do,
is increase the likelihood of decisions being owned and acted upon by enough
people for a positive change to be effected. C.These methods
map out along a spectrum,from 'directive' to 'participatory' decision making.
D.Invest some time in learning group decision making techniques
and getting facilitation experience and you will get results.
E.If there is a high emotional bank account between people involved, the
decision may be accepted although not liked. F.Corporate
executives have come to learn that to be effective, doing good must be grounded
in a firm's long-term strategy. G.So we'll skip onto the more
challenging area of group decision making.
填空题Telephone Message Date: 1st April Time: 9:45 item: buying (9) Purpose: 10 for meeting room, (10) for the office Total money: (11) Deadline for purchasing: before (12) , April
填空题AWhere do you buy your clothes? Well, most of us shop at traditional retailers with increasingly frequent trios to discount stores and Internet. And most of the super-rich and trendy buy directly from designers like Gucci, Armani and Chanel. But lately their shopping habits and ours have been converging. Bonita Carol reports that many of the fashion elite are coming out of the closet and going straight to K Mart. Take a peek inside fashion editor Christy Ferrel's closet, and you'll find couture side by side with K Mart.BFashion reporter Jerry Agins calls the trend "cheapskate chic": the regent fashionable wearing Sears shoes, Wal-Mart pants and Target sweaters, proudly pairing them with designer labels. The whole trend of "cheapskate chic" is a lot of affluent people are now shopping differently, and they're just like everybody, they're decorating their homes, they're spending a lot of time in stores like K Mart and Wal-Mart. And you're in there once or twice a week, so while you're in there picking up paper towels and toilet paper and toothpaste, you happen to kind of wander about the fashion aisles.CA watershed event occurred when Sharon Stone wore that Gap T-shirt at the Oscars. She looked terrific. Everybody wondered what she had on and later they found out that she had on that $ 22 Gap turtleneck and that really resonated with a lot of consumers. Stores like the Gap, Sears, K Mart and target are taking full advantage, offering fashion mavens that perfect denim jacket or pair of jeans, T-shirt or little black dress or top to make them match with high fashion.DRetail Watcher said mass merchants are benefiting greatly from this "cheapskate chic" trend. In 1998 mass retailers such as K Mart, Wal-Mart and Target accounted for 43% of all apparel sold. And that's up from 38% five years earlier. And these stores are stealing away customers from more upscale boutiques. In Target's case, or as the fashionably in crowd call it "Tarzhay", about 80% of its customers are college educated and have a medium household income of $ 47, 000. Maybe that's why Target's offering Kashmir sweaters for the first time.
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填空题{{B}}PART TWO{{/B}}{{B}} ·Read the following text.
·Choose the best sentence from the list A—H to fill each of the
blanks. ·For each blank (8—12) mark one letter (A—H) on your
answer sheet. ·Do not mark any letter twice.{{/B}}
The former chief executive officer of Computer Associates was indicted by a
federal grand jury in New York Wednesday for allegedly participating in a
massive fraud conspiracy and an elaborate cover up of a scheme that cost
investors hundreds of millions of dollars.Meanwhile the company, under
new management, reached an agreement with the Security and Exchange Commission
to pay $225 million in compensation to shareholders victimized by the criminal
conduct.{{U}} (8) {{/U}}.{{U}}(9) {{/U}}.A third
executive, former senior vice president and general counsel Stephen Woghin,
pleaded guilty in Brooklyn Wednesday for his role in the fraud
scheme.Prosecutors said the long-running accounting fraud scheme
featured what came to be known by Computer Associates employees as a "35-day
month"{{U}} (10) {{/U}}."The defendants cooked the books by
simply keeping them open beyond the end of a fiscal quarter for however long it
took to meet the analysts earning estimates," said Deputy Attorney General James
Comey. Comey said by the time the "house of cards" collapsed, about $2.2 billion
in revenue was booked prematurely.Comey was joined by top FBI and SEC
officials for announcement of the charges and settlement at a Justice Department
news conference.{{U}} (11) {{/U}}.Comey noted that for the first
time in a major corporate fraud case, prosecutors decided to defer prosecution
against the corporation itself.{{U}} (12) {{/U}}if the new management
team met a series of strict requirements for corporate reform."I view
this as sort of a model," Comey told reporters."We have no interest in
swinging at a wrong door and knocking down thousands of innocent employees," he
said. The deputy attorney general said if the company demonstrates it has a
culture "that can be saved and contribute to society" there was no reason to
further punish the corporation. A. Comey said the government
wouldn't have known the schemes B. it also agreed to institute
corporate reforms and to cooperate with ongoing federal investigations
C. the government promised to drop charges against CA after 18
months D. because company books were hidden until revenues
exceeded the estimates E. because company books were routinely
kept open until revenues exceeded projected goals F. when CA
refused to corporate with ongoing federal investigations G.
former CEO and chairman of the board Sanjay Kumar was indicted in Brooklyn along
with his former head of worldwide sales, Stephen Richards H.
Comey heads the Bush Administration's Corporate Fraud Task Force
填空题· Read the text below about marketing information.· In most of the lines
34—45 there is one extra word. It is either grammatically incorrect or does not
fit in with the meaning of the text. Some lines, however, are correct.· If a
line is correct, write CORRECT on your Answer Sheet.· If there is an extra
word in the line, write the extra word in CAPITAL LETTERS on your Answer
Sheet.
{{B}}
Marketing Information{{/B}}Correct Sales and marketing messages are
illegal if they falsely advertise prices,the performance capability,
quality, or the other product characteristics, or deceive34 the buyer
in what any way. A Western Canadian electronics firm was convicted35
recently of bait-and-switch selling (selling products with deceptive
advertising).36 This practice occurs when a company advertises at a
very low price on a37 product, but the customer has great many
difficulty getting the special price.38 Rather that, the company
attempts to sell the customer a similar but39 higher-priced product or
offers a rain check that it will not be honored. This40 tactic for
attracting customers is a form of deceptive marketing. Furthermore,41
sellers of services must also be cautious about how the language they use
to42 describe what they will do. Letters, reports, and proposals that
they describe43 services to be performed are interpreted as contracts
in courts. Sales and44 marketing messages must not make claims that
cannot be verified, so that45 language must not promise more than
which intended.
填空题Fly High Courier Missing Item Record Delivery number: FRM-(9) ______ Caller's name: Richard HUSSAIN Date of collection : (10)______ From: Chicago, US To: (11) ______,UK Contents: paperwork for loans Notes: package delivered on 10:55 am, Feb. 7th without(12) ______on file as front door delivery.
填空题Notes The edition the man wants to advertise on is: (1) The press date is (2) The location of the ad the man likes is (3) The cost of the ad is: (4)
填空题How Management Teams Can Have a Good Fight Top managers often find it very difficult to manage conflict. They know that conflict over issues is natural and even necessary. Reasonable people,making decisions under conditions of uncertainty,are likely to have honest disagreements over the best path for their company's future. Management teams whose members challenge one another's thinking develop a more complete understanding of the choices, cerate a richer range of options. Ultimately they are able to make the kinds of effective decisions necessary in today's competitive environments. But, unfortunately, healthy conflict can quickly turn unproductive. A comment meant as a substantive remark can be interpreted as a personal attack. (8) Personalities frequently become closely connected with issues. Because most executives are proud of their ability to make rational decisions,they find it difficult even to acknowledge—let alone manage—this emotional,irrational dimension of their behavior. The challenge is familiar to anyone who has ever been part of a management team. (9) The managers should be encouraged to argue without destroying their ability to work as a team. In a study,in 4 of the 12 companies,there was little or no substantive disagreement over major issues and therefore little conflict to observe. But the other 8 companies experienced considerable conflict. In 4 of them,the top-management teams handled conflict in a way that avoided interpersonal hostility or discord. (10) They described the way they work as a team as‘open’,‘fun’,and ‘productive’. The executives vigorously debated the issues,but they wasted little time on carefully considering and posturing. As one put it, 'I really don't have time. 'Another said, 'We don't gloss over the issues:we hit them straight on. But we're not political, ' Still another observed of her company's management team, 'We scream a lot,then laugh,and then resolve the issue. ' The other four companies in which issues were contested were less successful at avoiding interpersonal conflict. Their top teams were plagued by intense hostility. (11) When executives described their colleagues to us,they used words such as‘manipulative’, ‘secretive’.‘burned out’,and‘political’. The teams with minimal interpersonal conflict were able to separate substantive issues from those based on personalities. (12) How did they do that? After analyzing the observations of the teams’ behavior, the experts found that their companies used the same tactics for managing interpersonal conflict. For instance,team members worked with more, rather than less, information and debated on the basis of facts.A. They must try to keep constructive conflict over issues from turning into nonfunctional interpersonal conflict.B. Executives Often failed to cooperate. rarely talking with one another, tending to fragment into cliques, and openly displaying their frustration and anger.C. Anxiety and frustration over difficult choices can evolve into anger directed at colleagues.D. Executives in those companies referred to their colleagues as 'smart', 'team player', and 'best In the business'.E. All the teams had to make high-stakes decisions in the face of considerable uncertainty and under pressure to move quickly.F. They managed to disagree over questions of strategic significance and still get along with one another.
填空题The girl is working in the: (1) The room number the girl will rent: (2) The price to be paid is: (3) The girl's phone number is: (4)
填空题A Personnel ManagerB Training ManagerC Junior Finance ManagerD a temporary clerkE Marketing ManagerF Manager of Office SuppliesG Managing DirectorH Finance Director
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填空题 · Look at the form below. · You will hear a
conversation on the phone.
{{B}} Reservation Card{{/B}}To:
Dr.
GreenFrom:
LindaDate:
18th AprilTime:
2:30 p. m.Information of patientName:
David
(5)______Symptom:
something wrong with the (6)______Date of meeting:
15th, (7)______Time for meeting..
(8)______
填空题BSection One/B· You will hear five people talking about different
documents.· For each piece decide which document (A—H) the speaker is
talking about.· Write one letter (A—H) next to the number of the piece.·
Do not use any letter more than once.· You will hear the five pieces
twice.
A. An itineraryB. A passportC. An agreementD. An application
formE. A bookletF. A receiptG. Balance sheetH. A sales
pamphlet
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填空题· Look at the note below.· You will hear a man requesting some
information about a job.
{{B}}
Message{{/B}}For: Mrs. SteinbeckFrom: Michael CornwallMichael
Cornwall phoned about the post of the {{U}}(5) {{/U}} Manager.He's
already got the {{U}}(6) {{/U}}Original interview schedule doesn't
suit him.He asked for a {{U}}(7) {{/U}} interview. (Can you let him
know if that's possible?)Confirmed that all {{U}}(8) {{/U}} must be
brought within this week.
填空题JACKSON"S ASSOCIATES Telephone Message
Caller:
James Horrocks
Date and time of call:
8:45 a.m 7th April.
Message
ESCHEPULE MORNING:
The meeting with John Row (APF) will need to be
1
.
The new time of the marketing meeting is:
2
.
Call Jim Davis to arrange a
3
.
Also, send
4
to Freda Bell.
填空题uncompensated. During the past 20 years of economic inactivity, many companies