MBA英语测试附答案第七周.doc

阅读理解DOTCOMS may be moribund, but inside companies, the Internet is still finding cost-saving new uses. B2E-business-to-employee-didnt have a crash, says Bipin Patel, in charge of developing the potential of the corporate intranet at the Ford Motor Company. Its still growing. Ford has gone further than most companies to get its employees online: it offered its American employees personal computers, and 90% of them accepted. Ford hopes that the free PCs will save its own and its employees time by moving services online. General Motors, Fords great rival, considered a similar scheme but found that most employees willing to use PCs already had them. It is helping staff to pay for high-bandwidth connections instead. At Ford, the human-resources department has pioneered a scheme to provide up-to-the-minute information to employees about pay and benefits. In the past, employees sometimes found that it took weeks to get a copy of the pay information they needed to do their tax returns, and the departments staff spent mind-numbing hours answering the same questions from hundreds of different employees. Now employees can look at a password-protected site that displays their payslips over the previous 18 months. They can see all deductions, and the hours they worked. All this information was on the human-resources database: displaying it to employees has saved staff time. People want more and more of this self-service information, which they can manage themselves, observes Mr Patel. There is no such thing as information overload here, because its their information. Even training seems to work better online: Ford employees can now download a range of courses, including one on Listening and Handling Tough Situations, all designed for digestion in ten- or 15-minute gobbets. The company claims to have cut training costs by $2m during the past six months, as fewer people leave their desks to learn. The company also uses its intranet to communicate with its staff around the world. Jacques Nasser, Fords boss, sends out Lets chat notes once a week. In fact, Mr Nasser does most of the chatting. He gets hundreds of e-mails in reply, but the communication is basically a one-way flow. The company also runs chatrooms, in which employees can question various inhouse experts and outside analysts live on the corporate intranet. In time, thinks Mr Patel, communications technology will reshape corporate behaviour. It will encourage collaboration and team-working. Already, the Internet is causing disintermediation within companies, he argues, just as it did in e-commerce: the human-resources department does much less administration once the benefits system is more self-service, but rather more advising and consulting. One day, working in human resources might even be fun. 1. How does the author introduce his topic? APosing a contrast.Bjustifying an assumption.CExplaining a phenomenon.DMaking a comparison. 2. Why did Ford and GM intend to provide their employees with PCs? APCs can help them save a lot.BB2E is a growing thing.CThe employees prefer to use PCs.DProving PCs is a way of competition. 3. Which of the following is not the advantage of internet? AIt can save time.BIt can save cost.CIt encourages collaboration and team-working.DIt makes human-resources department an easy job. 4. The expression “a one-way flow”(Line 3, Paragraph 5) most probably means _.Anot encouraging open answersBonly one side asking questionsConly yes or no questionsDthe topics lack variety 5. Which of the following is true according to the text? AThe Internet can help DOTCOMS come back to life.BThe courses downloaded are practical, but time-consuming.CThe internet makes the work of human-resources department more direct and interesting.DThe employees can manage all the information by themselves. 二、翻译1. The desire that men feel to increase their income is quite as much a desire for success as for the extra comforts that a higher income can obtain. 2. For the next four years, though, all eyes will more than likely be focused on Benjamin Netanyahu in an intensive quest to discover what he will really do now that he has achieved his burning ambition to be Prime Minister.3. The hope is that the substantial support Sinn Feins peace platform received at the polls will convince the I. R. A. that the republicans who voted for Sinn Fein do not want a resumption of violence.4. Not only do patients with chronic health problems fail to find relief in a doctors office, but the endless high-tech scans and tests of modern medicine also often leave them feeling alienated and uncared for.5. Now, as long as a patient is in the final stages of a terminal disease, mentally competent and able to take a lethal dose of medicine on his?or?her own, the state cant bar a doctor from prescribing that dose.6. The past few years have seen a burst of entrepreneurial activity in what are called intelligent agents IQ that are nonetheless smart enough to be released on the Internet to do small, useful chores like tracking stock prices?or?digging for nuggets of research data.7. There was a huge library near the riverfront, but I knew that Negroes were not allowed to patronize its shelves any more than they were the parks and playgrounds of the city. 答案：阅读答案：CADBC篇章剖析 本文介绍了一些公司如何借助国际互联网的形式来为公司节约时间、节省开支的。文章第一段指出电子商务形式B2E(“企业对职员”)仍然在发展；第二段指出福特和通用公司类似的做法，希望电脑能为他们节省时间；第三段、四段和五段指出互联网在福特公司的具体应用；最后一段指出互联网对公司行为模式的影响。题目分析 1答案为C，属事实细节题。本文通过阐述一种现象来引入话题。 2. 答案为A，属推理判断题。文章第一段指出网络公司(DOTCOMS)也许即将灭亡，但是在公司内部，因特网仍然是节省成本的新办法。第二段指出福特公司希望把一些服务性信息放到网上，能够节省公司及其员工的时间，通用汽车公司也效仿这一做法。由此我们可以看出节约时间、节约开支是这两个公司想要给其员工配备电脑的原因。 3. 答案为D，属事实细节题。文章中提到“the human-resources department does much less administration once the benefits system is more self-service,”，但这并不意味着人力资源部的工作会有所减轻，这只是工作形式有所改变，人力资源部将把更多的工作重心放在建议和咨询方面。 4. 答案为B，属猜词题。文章中提到多数情况下都是纳赛尔先生在聊天。他虽然收到回复的电子邮件有几百封，但基本上都是由他发问，别人来回答这种形式，因此这种交流是单向的。 5. 答案为C，属事实细节题。原文对应信息是“One day, working in human resources might even be fun.”。选项A在文中对应的正确信息是“DOTCOMS may be moribund”；选项B对应的正确信息是“all