Advanced English
Lesson one The Company in Which I Work
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他部门之前先给他看看.
3. 把统计数字复印,分发,这种做法的结果是公司每个部门的每个销售办事处的推销员在任何时期内业绩的好坏都不断地处于公众的审查和评论之中. 4. 纪律和监督激励他们.
5. 他们的经费很少，因为不再允许他们承担大的项目。 6. 不仅推销员认为（我们所做的是重要的），而且那些精明的／能力强的高级管理层的人员也这样认为。
7. 做令人厌烦的事情是否比把令厌烦的的事情交给别人去做而自己却无所事事更令人厌烦呢？这真是一个要做出决定的问题。
8. 我时常感到我被利用只是因为我被要求去做能付我工资的工作。
C. Fill in the blank in each sentence with the best word or expression from the box below, changing its form when necessary :
Motivate in the long run regardless of be held to blame squander to a great extent with honors take advantage of survive be credited with fall victim to have trouble doing sth .
1. The chairman of the board of directors was forced to resign , falling victim to the power struggle among the directors .
2. Intelligent and hard-working , he passed with honors in degree examinations .
3. Some girls are so shy as to have trouble mixing socially with people .
4. No one was held to blame for the loss of the game; each had done her best .
5. He enjoyed great popularity among the students , being credited with speaking five foreign languages .
6. The president decided to run for the second term, regardless of the state of his health .
7. The small restaurant owner squandered all his hard –earned money in gambling within a year .
8. To increase productivity , we have to get the workers motivated , but do you think material incentives will always work ?
D. Circle the right word or expression in the brackets in each of the following sentences :
1. It took him three years to pay off all the debts ( occurred , incurred ) by buying that new house .
2. The boy gave an ( ingenuous , ingenious ) account of what had happened , concealing nothing .
3. He gave such ( implicit , explicit ) instructions that everyone understood them .
4. The two brothers ( compliment , complement ) each other ; one is impulsive , the other , cautious .
5. The little boy ( stimulated , simulated ) illness not to go to school .
6. Sitting alone in his room , he ( wondered ,brooded ) over his failure to get a job after a whole year of trying .
7. She has had a (grudge, malice) against me ever since I turned down her unreasonable request.
8. After graduating from the business school , he went to work in a big corporation and proved to be quite a ( shrewd , cunning ) businessman .
E. Explain the underlined words in English:
1. Each week, for example, a record of the sales results of the corresponding week …is kept and compared to the sales results for the corresponding week of the year before.
2. ….they often turns cranky without warning and complains a lot.
3. …he is usually moved into an administrative position after several months of mourning .
4. Strangely enough , the salesmen react very well to the constant pressure and rigid supervision to which they are subjected .
5. For the most part , they are cheerful , confident , and gregarious when they are not .. depressed .
6. And it’s a dumb person who’s convinced he is wise .
7. But between such peaks of challenge and elation there is monotony and despair .
8. …there is a large , emotional letdown after I survive each crisis ….
Key E
1. how many goods were sold for the related week
2. they often turn strange unexpectedly
3. After several months of grieving his wife’s death , he is usually transferred from the sales office to an administrative office .
4. to which they have to obey .
5. Generally speaking , they are happy , confident and easy –going .
6. It’s a stupid person who is sure ….
7. There is boredom between such peaks of challenge and happiness .
8. After I manage to go through each crisis , I have a strong feeling of disappointment .
F. Translate the following into English :
在大公司里工作不是一件轻松的事.公司有严格的等级制度，如果你要想成功和得到升，除了要承受巨大的工作压力和做好工作， 你必须服从指挥，遵守纪律。你天天处于严格的监督下， 在恐惧中度日。如果你做的是一项毫无晋升机会的工作而又因各种原因无法另谋出路时，你会觉得工作没有意思，感到厌烦。你会对前程绝望，失去雄心大志， 失去工作动机，变成一个庸人。
Key F
It’s not easy to work in a big company . There is strict hierarchy in the company , and if you hope to be successful and get promotion , you have to obey directions and disciplines in addition to bear heavy pressure of work and work hard . Every day you are under rigid supervision and live in panic . If what you do is a job which will not provide you any chance to get promotion and for some reasons you have no way to find another job , you will be bored with it and feel dull . You will be in despair , lose ambition and working motivation , and finally become a mediocre .
G. Write a short passage of 150-200 words in English on the topic “Do you like to be a Salesman in Big Company? Why or Why Not?” You should cover the following points:
1. A statement of your position; 2.the first reason why you like or do not like to be a salesman; 3 . The second reason why you like or do not like to be a salesman.
Do you like to be a salesman in a big company?
With the development of economy, more and more salesmen are needed in all kinds of companies, big or small. Meanwhile, more and more people like to be salesmen. As for me, I like to be a salesman in a big company for the following reasons.
Firstly, in terms of income, salesmen in a big company often earn big salaries. It goes without saying that salary is an important consideration when one chooses a job. Generally speaking, a big company offers a better pay to its salesmen that a small company does. As a breadwinner, I certainly prefer to work as a salesman in a big company.
Secondly, in terms of self –development, salesmen in a big company often get better chances to further develop themselves, .Nowadays, earning a large sum of money is not the only purpose of salesmen, they also want to improve their abilities and enlarge their knowledge as well. A big company usually provides in –service training to its salesmen which few small companies are able to provide. Thus, I like to be a salesman in a big company for this reason.
In short, for the two reasons I mentioned above, I want to be a salesman in a big company.
Lesson Two Eve line
A. Answer the following questions on the text :
1. How many people had there been in Eveline’s family ? How many were there now ? What had happened to them ?
自考高级英语课后练习题及答案 下册
