The project manager ______ told us that we could leave early today.It was_____ to thi
A.excitedly … exciting
B.excitedly … excited
C.excitingly … exciting
D.excitingly … excited
A.excitedly … exciting
B.excitedly … excited
C.excitingly … exciting
D.excitingly … excited
第1题
M:Oh, I nearly forget it. I know you gave it to me over half a month ago, but to be honest, I have been swamped with other things.
Q:What does the manager imply?
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A.He has no time to read the project proposal.
B.The girl's proposal was terribly written.
C.It's not his responsibility to help the girl.
D.Half a month is not enough to write a proposal.
第2题
1.Being an effective manager lies in knowing the right ()。
A.knowledge
B.skills
C.management style
2.Which of the following is NOT mentioned as a focus of different management styles()。
A.People.
B.Customers
C.Project
3.Which of the following can’t be inferred from the passage()。
A.The management style. is likely to change because the manager has been replaced
B.The management style. is likely to change because the desired results have changed
C.The management style. is likely to change because the available resources have changed
4.When people in your team know where they fit in the big picture, they are more likely to be _____ to complete the task.
A.frustrated
B.reluctant
C.inspired
5.If you want to speed up a project and choose the best process for completing that project, youcan resort to ()。
A.teamwork
B.top-down management
C.tight deadline
第3题
They have a broad and flexible toolkit of techniques, resolving complex,interdependent activities into tasks and sub-tasks that are documented, monitored and controlled. They adapt their approach to the context and constraints of each project, knowing that no "one size" can fit all the variety of projects. And they are always improving their own and their teams' skills through lessons-learned reviews at project
completion. Project managers are found in every kind of organization -- as employees, managers, contractors and independent consultants. With experience, they may become program managers (responsible for multiple related projects) or portfolio managers (responsiblefor selection, prioritization and alignment of projects and programs with an organization' s strategy) . And they are in increasing demand worldwide. For decades, as the pace of economic and technological change has quickened, organizations have been directing more and more
of their energy into projects rather than routine operations.
(1) .Which of the following is NOT enjoyed by projectmanagers?
A、Challenges.
B、Responsibility
C、Status quo
(2) .Which of the following is NOT concerned by project managers?
A、Theoverall situation
B、The non-crucial details
C、The crucial details
(3) .Which of the following is a TRUE statement about projectmanagers?
A、They do not need to keep contact with all of a project’ sstakeholders
B、They use one model to solve problems in various projects
C、Theyimprove their skills after completion of each project
(4) .Which of the following is NOT mentioned as a career possibility for experienced project manager?
A、Becoming general manager of anorganization
B、Running several projects at the same time
C、Allocating projects to other project managers
(5) .Which of the following can be an alternative title for thepassage?
A、Requirements of project managers
B、Future development of projectmanagers
C、Career development of project managers
第4题
M: Well, (23) it's a rather simple project at the beginning. It would consist of only one production line, but we could expand it afterwards.
W: How much is the financial investment?
M: Including loans? I would say in the area of two million US dollars.
W: I see.
M: How much would you like to invest in this project?
W: (24) As a general practice we lay out 51 percent of the overall investment. This includes, of course, capital, factory, buildings and equipments, things like that.
M: That seems reasonable. Now let's come to the time frame. How long does the venture run?
W: How long would you want?
M: As it's a small venture, I would suggest 5 years to start with.
W: The contract is renewable and can be extended if both sides agreed.
M: How long do the board members serve?
W: I would say Five years.
M: (25) The chairman would be the legal representative.
W: Yes. A management office would be brought forth and would be responsible for the day to day running of the joint venture. So far as the management is concerned, you might appoint the manager and the chief engineer of the project. And we might appoint their deputies.
M: Ok, sounds good.
(20)
A.The production cost.
B.The financial outlay.
C.The bank loans.
D.The production line.
第5题
Located on the Mediterranean just two hours south of Barcelona, the Ebro Delta produces 120 million kilograms of rice a year, making it one of the continent’s most important rice-growing areas. As the sea creeps into these fresh-water marshes, however, rising salinity(盐分)is hampering rice production. At the same time, this sea-water also kills off the greedy giant apple snail, an introduced pest that feeds on young rice plants. The most promising strategy has become to harness one foe against the other.
The battle is currently being waged on land, in greenhouses at the University of Barcelona. Scientists working under the banner “Project Neurice” are seeking varieties of rice that can withstand the increasing salinity without losing the absorbency that makes European rice ideal for traditional Spanish and Italian dishes.
“The project has two sides,” says Xavier Serrat, Neurice project manager and researcher at the University of Barcelona. “the short-term fight against the snail, and a mid- to long-term fight against climate change. But the snail has given the project greater urgency.”
Originally from South America, the snails were accidentally introduced into the Ebro Delta by Global Aquatic Tecnologies, a company that raised the snails for fresh-water aquariums(水族馆), but failed to prevent their escape. For now, the giant apple snail’s presence in Europe is limited to the Ebro Delta. But the snail continues its march to new territory, says Serrat. “The question is not if it will reach other rice-growing areas of Europe, but when.”
Over the next year and a half investigators will test the various strains of salt-tolerant rice they’ve bred. In 2018, farmers will plant the varieties with the most promise in the Ebro Delta and Europe’s other two main rice-growing regions—along the Po in Italy, and France’s Rh?ne. A season in the field will help determine which, if any, of the varieties are ready for commercialization.
As an EU-funded effort, the search for salt-tolerant varieties of rice is taking place in all three countries. Each team is crossbreeding a local European short-grain rice with a long-grain Asian variety that carries the salt-resistant gene. The scientists are breeding successive generations to arrive at varieties that incorporate salt tolerance but retain about 97 percent of the European rice genome(基因组). Why does the author mention the Spanish Civil War at the beginning of the passage?
A.It had great impact on the life of Spanish rice farmers.
B.It is of great significance in the records of Spanish history.
C.Rice farmers in the Ebro Delta are waging a battle of similar importance.
D.Rice farmers in the Ebro Delta are experiencing as hard a time as in the war.
What may be the most effective strategy for rice farmers to employ in fighting their enemies?A.Striking the weaker enemy first
B.Killing two birds with one stone
C.Eliminating the enemy one by one
D.Using one evil to combat the other
What do we learn about “Project Neurice”?A.Its goals will have to be realized at a cost.
B.It aims to increase the yield of Spanish rice.
C.Its immediate priority is to bring the pest under control.
D.It tries to kill the snails with the help of climate change.
What does Neurice project manager say about the giant apple snail?A.It can survive only on southern European wetlands.
B.It will invade other rice-growing regions of Europe.
C.It multiplies at a speed beyond human imagination.
D.It was introduced into the rice fields on purpose.
What is the ultimate goal of the EU-funded program?A.Cultivating ideal salt-resistant rice varieties.
B.Increasing the absorbency of the Spanish rice.
C.Introducing Spanish rice to the rest of Europe.
D.Popularizing the rice crossbreeding technology.
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第6题
Planning and People
In all kinds of organizations--companies, schools, hospitals, etc. --decisions appear correct in theory but do not work in practice. There are many reasons for this. To illustrate the problems involved we will consider four cases where different decisions have to be taken.
Case No. 1
The manager of a shipping company was interested in using large metal containers for the company's cargo instead of conventional methods of loading and unloading. He discovered that the use of containers was less expensive and quicker than conventional methods. More cargo could be sent at one time and delays on the way were shorter. The only major disadvantage (apart from the initial cost of the containers) was that not all ships could take them. However, the manager believed that his company could find enough ships for their containers. His plan to use containers was adopted by the board of directors. Unfortunately, however, it was never put into practice. The dockers heard about the plan and did not like it. The reason was that the containers would make about a quarter of the dockers redundant. The plan was killed.
The comparison of containers with conventional methods is shown in the following table.
Case No. 2
A solar pump was built in a small desert village. The pump used the desert's most common resource-sunlight, to increase its greatest necessity-water. Solar collectors were used to collect the sun's rays. Flat collectors can be stationary and do not have moving parts which can be broken in sand storms. The system used the 20 degree centigrade temperature difference between the solar collectors and the ground water to work a gas expansion engine which pumped water from under the ground.
Some of the social effects of the new pumps were planned for. Children aged 6 to15 used to bring the water from wells, where they met the old men of the village and received informal education from them. In order to replace this, a school was also included in the project. But the project had not considered the traditional power structure of the village. As soon as the foreign experts left, the two richest men in the village took control of the pump and started selling water to everyone else. The result was that the majority of people were poorer than before.
Case No. 3
In 1946 there was a program in the Rio Grande valley to substitute hybrid corn for the native corn. The native corn was of poor nutritional quality and gave a poor quantity of grain while the hybrid corn was of excellent quality and gave about three times as large a crop as the native variety. In the first year half of the 84 farmers in the village planted hybrid corn and doubled the corn production. Three years later, however, only three farmers planted hybrid corn. The others were planting the traditional variety. At the beginning of the project the program leader studied the ecology of the area and showed films demonstrating the superiority of the new corn. The farmers agreed that the hybrid corn had great advantages. The size of the crop confirmed these advantages. Why did they stop planting it? The answer was simple: their wives did not like it. They complained that it wasn't good for cooking and they didn't like the flavor.
Case No. 4
The manager of a large office building had received many complaints about the lift service in the building. He engaged a group of engineers to study the situation and make recommendations for improvement. The engineers suggested two alternative solutions:
1. adding more lifts of the same types;
2. replacing the existing lifts by faster ones.
The manager decided that both alternative solutions were too expensive. So the firm's psychologist offered to study the problem. He noticed that many people ar
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第7题
听力原文:M: Do you want to go to the cinema with us on Saturday?
W: Thanks, but I have to study for my research project. I'm taking that same anthropology course you took with Professor Gray.
M: The one on ethnographic interviewing? Oh, good! I'm sure you'll get a lot out of it.
W: I have to admit the word "ethnography" scared me a little at first. It seems so technical. But then when she explained that it's what anthropologists do, you know, how they investigate and record aspects of a culture, it didn't seem so intimidating!
M: Yeah, it's a part of the field work anthropologists conduct and it's good to start doing that now before you become a graduate student and have to conduct large projects yourself. Who are you going to interview?
W: You know the publishing office where I used to work? Vivian, the woman I worked for, has been a manager there for over 30 years and seen a lot of changes in the industry. I thought I'd start out by interviewing her about how the people in the office interact with each other and with outside clients.
M: The best part of that course is that it shows you that ethnographic research can also be done on a familiar ground.
W: Yeah. I got the idea for my project from reading Robert Marshal's study of office life and I realized I already had some background in that. So far, I'm really enjoying this course.
(20)
A.Which major the woman will be choosing.
B.An anthropology course the woman is taking.
C.How to find a job in publishing.
D.Which anthropology professors the man recommends.
第8题
In America, there is some evidence that the events of September 11th have made people more public-spirited and more inclined to blow the whistle. The Government Accountability Project, a Washington-based group, received 27 reproaches from potential informants in the three months before September 11th, and 66 in the three months after. Many of these complaints were about security issues. They included a Federal Aviation Administration employee who claimed that the agency had repeatedly failed to respond to known cases of security violations at airports.
Legislation to give greater protection to people who expose corporate or government misbehavior. externally (after having received no satisfaction internally) is being introduced in a number of countries. In America, it focuses on informants among federal employees. According to Billy Garde, a lawyer who was a member of BP's Alaska inquiry team, they "have less rights than prisoners". A bill introduced last year by Senator Daniel Akaka to improve protection for them is currently stuck in congressional committees.
In Britain, the Public Interest Disclosure Act came fully into force last year. Described by one American as "the most far-reaching informant protection in the world", it treats informants as witnesses acting in the public interest. This separates them from people who are merely pursuing a personal grievance. But even in Britain, the protection is limited. Rupert Walker, a fund manager, was fired by Govett Investments in September 2001 for expressing concerns in the Financial Times about a group of people of investment trusts that invest in each other.
What does the author most probably think about what the ACCC did to the woman?
A.Inconsistent.
B.Disheartening.
C.Unreasonable.
D.Bureaucratic.
第9题
A.Husband and wife.
B.Personnel Manager and secretary.
C.Sales Manager and Manager-general.
D.Manager and a newspaper editor.
第10题
A.Chairman of Flaxico
B.Production Manager
C.Accounts Manager
D.Sales Manager
第11题
Having an extended period of free time in the prime of one's life can in fact be a unique opportunity to focus on volunteer service, professional education or personal growth.
Community Involvement
For Lisa Perez, the wakeup call was burned pork chops. An executive who previously hadn't been particularly interested in home and health had become obsessed with homemaking during a stint of unemployment.
She realized that cleaning and organizing her home wasn't helping her job search. Nevertheless, "I made lists of 50 things to do every day," says Ms. Perez, a political and public-relations consultant in Scottsdale, Ariz. "My house was spotless, just so I'd have something to do."
One day, her boyfriend didn't arrive on time for dinner because he had to work late, and her pork chops were ruined. She threw a fit. "I'd never been a person like that," she says. "So I decided to stop feeling sorry for myself, and go out and do something productive."
Ms. Perez, 35, resolved to become an active volunteer for the duration of her search. She gave her time to a health-care concern, a housing program and a political campaign.
The work bolstered her self-confidence. "Volunteering takes the focus off of you. One thing you have that's still valuable is your time. And, of course, you learn that there are thousands of people with a life that's much worse than yours," she says.
Volunteer assignments are also great ways to meet powerful and well-connected people. Over a six-month period, her volunteering evolved into working as a paid consultant and then as a full-time employee, a job she still holds today. In all, she was unemployed for eight months.
Before her job loss, she thought she didn't have time to volunteer while working. "Now, even though I have a demanding job, I still volunteer, because of what I got out of it," says Ms. Perez.
Continuing Education
Gene Bellavance, a 36 year old information-technology project manager, took another route during his unemployment. When he was laid off from a steel company near Cleveland, he knew his immediate prospects were bleak. He expected his search to take a year. He faced a decision: take a job that would set back his career or hold out for an offer he really wanted.
Mr. Bellavanee, single and virtually debt free, shifted his finances into survival mode. He cashed out his pension, sold his house, unloaded things he didn't need at gar age sales, and rented an apartment with a roommate. Then, he says, "I signed up for every benefit I could find."
But he wasn't just waiting out the year. He spent the rest of his search updating his skills, including becoming certified in new database and project management software. "You have to invest in yourself," Mr. Bellavance says. "I estimated what technology was going to be the most beneficial and chose applications that were going to be pervasive, that were right for my market, and that were going to ensure top pay."
In addition to income from the occasional IT-consulting assignment, he relied on a combination of displaced-worker-retraining grants and unemployment benefits. "I went out and found the classes, submitted the paperwork, and dealt with the bureaucracy. You have to stay after them, keeping your benefits moving forward. It's up to you to make it work with your overall transition plan," he says.
His job search was one month shy of the
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