As the chairman of the students' union, Thomas was said ______ other students in need.A.to
As the chairman of the students' union, Thomas was said ______ other students in need.
A.to help
B.to be helping
C.to have helped
D.to have been helped
As the chairman of the students' union, Thomas was said ______ other students in need.
A.to help
B.to be helping
C.to have helped
D.to have been helped
第1题
The group chairman wants everyone to learn Portuguese and Spanish.
A.Right
B.Wrong
C.Doesn"t say
第2题
A) to be considered B) considering
C) being considered D) having considered
第3题
Why was Mr White kind and agreeable that morning?
A.The chairman of the company is coming to work in the office.
B.The chairman of the office is coming to visit the office.
C.The chairman of the office will ask Mr White to leave the office.
第4题
A) to be considered
B) considering
C) being considered
D) having considered
第5题
听力原文: OK, everybody. Can we begin the meeting now? I' m Mike Johnson, the chairman of the Graduation Committee for this year. You've all been chosen as representatives to plan the graduation ceremony. I am sending around a sheet of paper for you to write down your name and telephone number. Also, please write down which part of the ceremony you'd like to work on. Remember, as a representative, you'll have a lot of responsibilities. So only sign up if you feel you have the time to participate. When everyone has finished writing down the information, please return the pa per to me. At our next meeting, one week from today, we will start to discuss the details of the ceremony.
What is the purpose of the meeting?
A.To determine who will graduate this year.
B.To discuss the seating arrangement.
C.To begin planning the graduation ceremony.
第6题
听力原文: Michael Dell, the 39-year-old chairman and founder of Dell Computer, was at the top of the annual list of the "40 Richest Americans under the Age 40". His first business idea was to take apart an Apple computer in the bedroom of his parents' Houston, Texas home. From there, he went on selling computers out of his dorm room. He had developed a brand new approach to do business: sell computers directly to the consumers without going through retailers. And, in the process, he decided to design and deliver a computer based upon the customers' special needs. Prior to this there was absolutely no idea about make the PC special for each customer. In 1984, he founded the Dell Computer Corporation with US $1,000.
Dell gave a short version of his success secrets at a conference in Texas. He said:" First of all, don't start a business just because everybody else is doing it or it looks like it's a way to make a lot of money. Start a business because you found something you really love doing and have a passion for. Start a business because you found something unique that you can do better than anyone else. And start a business because you really want to make a big contribution to society over a long period of time."
(33)
A.Between the age of 20 to 30.
B.Between the age of 30 to 40.
C.Between the age of 40 to 50.
D.Between the age of 50 to 60.
第7题
M: Of course, Madame. Here is the minutes of the meeting. The meeting was delayed by thirty minutes and started at 2 : 30 p. m. and it last for two and a half hours.
W: Did you tell the chairman that I was very ill and couldn't attend?
M: Yes, I did. Also, here are all the reports and materials handed out in the meeting. I think you will have to do some replies.
What does the man do?
A.He is a manager.
B.He is a clerk.
C.He is a secretary.
D.He is a chairman.
第8题
听力原文: It was in 1951, during my first week at North Carolina College, a black school, the English chairman's wife, who was as light as a white woman, stopped me one day in the ball.
When I went to her office, she said, "You had the highest grade on the examination." She was talking about the exam that the entire freshman class took. In spite of her smile, her eyes and tone of voice said, "How could this blackskinned girl score higher on the test than the other students? It must be a mistake.' At North Carolina College, color was used in deciding status. The faculty assumed that lightskinned students were more intelligent, and they were always a bit surprised when a darkskinned student did well, especially if she was a girl.
When the grades for the first quarter come out, I had the highest average in the freshmen class. The chairman's wife called me into her office again, pulled out a copy of the freshman English final exam, and asked me to retake it. I couldn't believe it. It was so incredible to her that I had the highest score in the class that she was trying to test me again. I felt angry, so intense that I wanted to start hitting her. I have seldom hated anyone so deeply. I handed the exam paper back to her and walked out.
(20)
A.She felt indifferent.
B.She felt satisfied.
C.She felt delighted.
D.She felt surprised.
第9题
W. Ibsley was too ill to attend the meeting.
A.Right
B.Wrong
C.Doesn"t say
第10题
听力原文: At 63, John F. Fielder, Chairman and CEO of BorgWarner Inc. , has spent 40 years in the automobile industry, but he still acts like a 16-year-old who has just been given dad's keys. He often tells us that he loves cars. Recently, he had a talk with our correspondent Michael Arndt.
Car sales held up remarkably well through this recession. And while Borg. Warner's profiles fell, you still made money. What's the trick?
This is my ninth downturn, and we finally got this one right. If you go back to the mid-1980's, people were using 12% of their monthly disposable income to make a car payment. In 1999, that figure was 7%. In the past downturns, the first thing people did was to postpone car purchases. This time we surveyed people, and they said, "No, I'm not going to cut back on a car."
We also have a lot more real-time information. We could react faster. A lot of people think the auto industry got passed by the dot-corns and e-businesses. We didn't. We put in a lot of information systems. I can pull up on my computer right now Ford's inventories at all their plants, because we have data coming to us. We have less than a week's inventory of anything in our company.
For long-term growth, are you banking on Asia and Latin America?
If your time frame. is the rest of this decade, no, because the income isn't there yet. If your time frame. is longer -- several decades -- those are the growth markets. But in the next decade, Europe will be our fastest growing market.
What about moving your factories to low-cost emerging markets?
What's happening in the world is counterintuitive. The yen is getting weaker and weaker, and yet the, Japanese are putting more and more plants in the U.S. What people have learned is if you don't make it in the market, you are not likely to sell it there for any length of time.
I thought the trend was toward a "world car".
People around the world don't want a world car. Here is a real-life example. One of our best operations in the U.S. is one that makes gear boxes for SUVs. That technology doesn't do any good in Europe -- they don't use that product. Yet European will pay about $800 more for a very fuel-efficient engine. At their prices of gasoline, they can pay that $800 off in about a year.
Auto makers are notorious for squeezing suppliers. How can you take that year after year?
Well, our average yearly price reduction isn't the 3% to 5% you read about, It's more like 1%, and we offset that with honest-to-God cost savings. If we can't do it, we get out of the business.
You drive a different car every year. What was your all-time favorite model?
My favorite was '55 Chevy Bel-Air coupe. I always remembered it as a great car. I've gone back and driven one recently and it's not really a great car. My memories of it are much better than the car.
•You will hear an interview with John F. Fielder, Chairman and CEO of BorgWarner Inc.
•For each question 23-30, mark one letter (A, B or C) for the correct answer.
•You will hear the recording twice.
Mr Fielder
A.still likes cars even though he is 63.
B.has liked cars for 40 years.
C.liked his daddy's car at the age of 16.
第11题
Doubts and Debates over the Worth of MBA
Bill Gates, the billionaire Microsoft chairman without a single earned university degree, is by his success raising new doubts about the worth of the business world's favorite academic title: the MBA (Master of Business Administration).
The MBA, a 20th-century product always has borne the mark of lowly commerce and greed (贪婪) on the tree-lined campuses ruled by purer disciplines such as philosophy and literature. But even with the recession apparently cutting into the hiring of business school graduates, about 79,000 people are expected to receive MBAs in 1993. This is nearly 16 times the number of business graduates in 1960, a testimony to the widespread assumption that the MBA is vital for young men and women who want to run companies some day. "If you are going into the corporate world it is still a disadvantage not to have one," said Donald Morrison, professor of marketing and management science. "But in the last five years or so, when someone says, ' Should I attempt to get an MBA,' the answer a lot more is: It depends. "
The success of Bill Gates and other non-MBAs, such as the late Sam Walton of Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has helped inspire self-conscious debates on business school campuses over the worth of a business degree and whether management skills can be taught.
The Harvard Business Review printed a lively, fictional exchange of letters to dramatize complaints about business degree holders. The article called MBA hires "extremely disappointing" and said "MBAs wants to move up too fast, they don't understand politics and people, and they aren't able to function as part of a team until their third year. But by then, they're out looking for other jobs. " The problem, most participants in the debate acknowledge, is that the MBA has acquired an aura (光环) of future riches and power for beyond its actual importance and usefulness.
Enrollment in business schools exploded in the 1970s and 1980s and created the assumption that no one who pursued a business career could do with out one. The growth was fueled by a backlash (反冲) against the anti-business values of the 1960s and by the women's movement.
Business people who have hired or worked with MBAs say those with the degrees often know how to analyze systems but are not so skillful at motivating people. "They don't get a lot of grounding in the people side of the business," said James Shaffer, vice president and principal of the Towers Perrin management consulting firm.
According to Paragraph 2, what is the general attitude towards business on campuses dominated by purer disciplines?
A.Envious.
B.Scornful.
C.Realistic.
D.Appreciative.