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发表于 2016-7-12 17:54:58
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原文：Changing technology and markets have stimulated the team approach to management. Inflation, resource scarcity, reduced personnel levels and budget cuts have all underscore the need for better coordination in organizations. Team management provides for this coordination. Team management calls for new skills if personnel potential is to be fully realized. Although a team may be composed of knowledgeable people, they must learn new ways of relating and working together to solve cross-functional problems. When teams consist of experienced employees from hierarchical organizations, who have been conditioned to traditional organizational culture. Cooperation may not occur naturally, it may need to be created. Furthermore, the issue is not just how the team can function more effectively, but how it integrates with the overall organization or society that it supposedly serves. A group of individuals is not automatically a team. Therefore, team building may be necessary in order to improve the group’s performance. Casey, an expert in this field, suggests that the cooperation process within teams must be organized, promoted and managed. He believes that team corporation results when members go beyond their individual capabilities, beyond what each is used to being and doing. Together, the team may then produce something new, unique and superior to that of any one member. For this to happen, he suggests the multi-cultural managers exhibit understanding of their own and others’ cultural influences and limitations. They should also cultivate such skills as toleration of ambiguity, persistence and patience, as well as assertiveness. If a team manager exemplifies such qualities, then the team as a whole would be better able to realize their potential and achieve their objectives.
Q 16: What should team members do to fully realize their potential?
Q 17: What needs to be considered for effective team management?
Q 18: What conclusion can we draw from what Casey says?
解析：本文是介绍团队管理的说明文，Q16和Q17难度较低，答案均在原文中直接给出，掌握听即原则就可选出答案。其中Q17答案更由but一词引出，考生只要留意到这个重要词汇即可。Q18考查主旨大意，答案在文章末尾出现：掌握某些技能的重要性。
Passage 2
19. 答案：A
A) It is a program allowing people to share information on the Web.
B) It started off as a successful program but was unable to last long.
C) It was mainly used by scientists and technical people to exchange text.
D) It is a platform for sharing ideas on teaching at the University of Illinois
20. 答案：B
A) He visited a number of famous computer scientists.
B) He met with an entrepreneur named Jim Clark
C) He invested in a leading computer business.
D) He sold a program developed by his friends.
21. 答案：B
A) They trusted his computer expertise.
B) They had confidence in his new ideas.
C) They were very keen on new technology.
D) They believed in his business connections.
原文：In early 1994, when Mark Andreessen was just 23 years old, he arrived in Silicon Valley with an idea that would change the world. As a student at the University of Illinois, he and his friends had developed a program called Mosaic, which allowed people to share information on the worldwide web. Before Mosaic, the web had been used mainly by scientists and other technical people, who were happy just to send and receive text. But with Mosaic, Andreessen and his friends had developed a program, which could send images over the web as well. Mosaic was an overnight success. It was put on the university’s network at the beginning of 1993. And by the end of the year, it had over a million users. Soon after, Andreessen went to seek his fortune in Silicon Valley. Once he got there, he started to have meetings with a man called Jim Clark, who was one of the Valley’s most famous entrepreneurs. In 1994, nobody was making any real money from the Internet, which was still very slow and hard to use. But Andreessen had seen an opportunity that would make him and Clark rich within two years. He suggested they should create a new computer program that would do the same job as Mosaic but would be much easier to use. Clark listened carefully to Andreessen, whose ideas and enthusiasm impressed him greatly. Eventually, Clark agreed to invest three million dollars of his own money in the project, and to raise an extra fifteen million from venture capitalists, who were always keen to listen to Clark’s new ideas.
Q 19 What do we learn about Mosaic?
Q 20 What did Andreessen do upon arriving in Silicon Valley?
Q 21Why were venture capitalists willing to join in Clark’s investment?
解析：典型故事叙述文章。抓住人物，经历事件及发生时间，最后留意故事结尾。短文理解重在框架性的理解，配合听即原则进行做题。
Passage 3
22．答案：A
A) Word-of-mouth advertising.
B) Distributing free trial products.
C) Prestige advertising.
D) Institutional advertising
23．答案： D
A) To sell a particular product.
B) To attract high-end customers
C) To promote a specific service.
D) To build up their reputation.
24．答案： D
A) By creating their own ads and commercials.
B) By buying media space in leading newspapers.
C) By hiring their own professional advertising staff.
D) By using the services of large advertising agencies.
25．答案：C
A) Conduct a large-scale survey on customer needs
B) Specify the objectives of the campaign in detail.
C) Pre-test alternative ads or commercials in certain regions.
D) Decide on what specific means of communication to employ.
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