高级英语(下)英语专业（本科段）-全国高等教育自学考试
指定教材王家湘 课后题及答案
Advanced English (II)
Lesson one The Company in Which I Work By Joseph Heller
A. Answer the following questions on the text :
1. What kind if emotion dominates all the people in the company ? 2. Why are salesmen afraid of most of the people in the company ? 3. Why do salesmen still feel pressure upon them when they are doing well ? 4. What kind of life are salesmen leading ?
5. Do salesmen have any grudge about their work ?
6. Why are people in the Market Research Department the least afraid ? 7. What is the nature of the work done by the Market Research Department ? 8. How does the narrator feel about his work now ?
9. What does he do when he is especially melancholy ? 10. What do you think is the theme of this passage ?
Key A 1. fear
2. They are always on trial , always on the verge of failure , collectively and
individually .
3. Because they are afraid that they may start doing worse . 4. They live and work under extraordinary pressure.
5. Yes.
6. Because their salaries are small , and they know they will not have trouble
finding jobs paying just as little in other companies if they lose their jobs here . 7. The nature of the work is to suggest ingenious ways of disguising reality . 8. He is bored with his work very often now.
9. He constructs tables of organization .. and classifies people in the company on
the basis of envy , hope, fear, ambition, frustration , rivalry , hatred , or
disappointment .
10. Big company destroies the nature of people , and people have to do what they
don?t want to do in order to survive in the company . B. Translate the following into Chinese :
1. They hold meetings ,make promotions , and allow their names to be used on
announcements that are prepared and issued by somebody else . 2. He makes it clear to me every now and then that he wishes to see everything
coming out of my department before it is shown to other departments . 3. The result of this photocopying and distributing is that there is almost
continuous public scrutiny and discussion throughout the company of how well or
poorly the salesmen in each sales office of each division of the company are doing at
any given time .
4. They are stimulated and motivated by discipline and direction . 5. Their budget , too , is small , for they are no longer permitted to undertake large
projects .
6. This happens not only to salesmen , but to the shrewd,,capable executives in top
management .
7. It?s a real problem to decide whether it?s more boring to do something boring
than to pass along everything boring that comes in to somebody else and then have
nothing to do at all .
8. I frequently feel I ?m being taken advantage of merely because I? m asked to do
the work I?m paid to do . Key B
1. 他们主持持会议,研究该提升谁,别人准备并发布的通告上也要署上他们的 名字.
2. 他不时地让我清楚一个事实,即希望我的部门所做的每项工作在显示给其
高级英语(下)英语专业(本科段)-全国高等教育自学考试指定教材王家湘 课后题及答案
