Directions: Read the passage and answer the questions or complete the statements in the fewest possible words.
It's logical to suppose that things like good labor relations, good working conditions, good wages and benefits and job security motivate workers, but one expert, Fredrick Herzberg argued that such conditions do not motivate workers. They are merely satisfiers. Motivators, in contrast, include things such as having a challenging and interesting job, recognition and responsibility. However, even with the development of computers and robotics, there're always plenty of boring, repetitive and mechanical jobs and lots of unskilled people who have to do them. So how do managers motivate people in such jobs? One solution is to give them some responsibilities, not as individuals, but as a part of a team. For example, some supermarkets can buy office stuff to people who fill the shelves, and the people who work at the check out into a team, and let them decide what product lines to stock, how to display them and so on. Many people now talk about the importance of a company's shared values or culture with which all the staff can identify, for example, being the best hotel chain, or making the best, the most user-friendly or the most reliable products in a particular field. Such values are more likely to motivate workers than financial targets which automatically only concern a few people. Unfortunately, there are only a limited number of such goals to go around and by definition, not all the competing companies in that industry can seriously plan to be the best.
(Note: Answer the questions or complete the statements in NO MORE THAN 8 WORDS.)
81: What can actually motivate workers according to Fredrick Herzberg?
__________________________________________________________
82: What does the speaker say about jobs in the computer era?
__________________________________________________________
83: What do some supermarkets do to motivate their employees?
__________________________________________________________
84: Why does the speaker say financial targets are less likely to motivate workers?
__________________________________________________________
81.  Challenging work and interesting job, recognition and responsibility.
82.  Many tedious jobs continue to be done manually.
83.  Give them responsibilities as part of a team.
84.  They concern a small number of people only.
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80. When invited to an American family for dinner, the first rule of polite behavior to keep in mind is to __________________________________.
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_______________________________________.
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閱讀下面短文,從短文后各題所給的四個選項(A、B、C和D)中,選出可以填入空白處的最佳選項,并在答題卡上將該項涂黑。
I was on my lunch break and had left the office to get something to eat.On the way, I saw a busker (賣藝人).This wasn't something out of the   36 ; there was always someone   37  enough to busk near the office buildings during lunch.
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I   45  and dropped all the coins into his hat and he smiled at me.I watched for a while.As selfish as it sounds, I expected something   46  to come from that moment.I wanted a natural high or even a feeling of happiness,   47  nothing happened.So then I smiled and walked off,   48  why I did things like that just now.It was a waste of money.
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37.A.handsome        B.smart             C.foolish             D.capable
38.A.food              B.notes              C.checks                D.coins
39.A.thought           B.came              C.left                D.smiled
40.A.give              B.feed              C.catch               D.bring
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42.A.cost              B.spend               C.waste             D.pay
43.A.choice            B.power              C.right               D.a(chǎn)bility
44.A.even               B.hardly                C.a(chǎn)lmost              D.just
45.A.stopped           B.walked             C.hurried             D.left
46.A.fewer              B.less                  C.more                D.worse
47.A.but                 B.or                 C.a(chǎn)nd                D.so
48.A.finding           B.wondering           C.forgetting           D.losing
49.A.beginning        B.end                  C.time                D.middle
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閱讀下面短文,從短文后所給各題的四個選項A、B、C、D中選出能填入相應(yīng)空白處的最佳選項。
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I do a lot of management training each year for the Circle K Corporation, a national chain of convenience stores.      21    the topics we discuss is the retention (保持)of quality employees -- a real challenge to managers when you consider the pay scale (薪水標(biāo)準(zhǔn))in the service industry. During these discussions, I asked the participants, "What has caused you to stay long enough to become a manager?" Some time back a new   22    took the question and     23      said, "It was a $19 baseball glove."
Cynthia told the group that she    24    took a Circle K clerk job as an interim (過渡時期)position   25      she looked for something   26     .On her second or third day behind the counter, she received a phone call from her nine-year-old son, Jessie. He needed a baseball glove for Little League. She explained that    27     a single mother, money was very    28    , and her first check would    29    go for paying   30    . Perhaps she could buy his baseball glove with her second or third check..
When Cynthia arrived for work the next morning, Patricia, the store manager, asked her to come to the small room in the back of the store that    31    as an office. Cynthia    32    if she had done something wrong or left some part of her job incomplete from the day before. She was concerned and confused.
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23.A.loudly
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31.A.worked
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第二部分:完形填空(共20小題,每小題1分,滿分20分)
閱讀下面短文,掌握其大意,然后從每題所給的四個選項(A、B、C、D)中,選出最佳選項。
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A powerful earthquake measuring 7.0 on the Richter scale shook Haiti on Tuesday, causing several buildings to collapse in the Western hemisphere's poorest nation and leading to an unknown number of fatalities(死亡), officials and witnesses said.
The earthquake was centered just 10 miles southwest of the crowded and impoverished(貧困的)capital of Port-au-Prince(太子港).Making matters worse, the earthquake was relatively shallow, at a depth of five miles, the U.S. Geological Survey said Shallow earthquakes can cause more damage.
“I think it's really a huge catastrophe,” Haiti's ambassador to the U.S., Raymond Alcide Joseph, told Cable News Network.
An Associated Press(美聯(lián)社)videographer saw the ruins of a hospital in Petionville, near Port-au-Prince. Reuters(路透社)news agency said several buildings had crumbled in the capital and that there were dead and injured trapped in the rubble.
At least 1.8 million people live within the area where the earthquake had its highest intensity, John Bellini, a geophysicist at the USGS, told The Wall Street Journal. “With a strong and shallow earthquake like this in such a populated area, it could really cause substantial damage.” he said.
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Within minutes of the original quake, two aftershocks rolled through the area, measuring 5.9 and 5.5 on the Richter scale.
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B. Thanks to the shallow earthquake, it did little damage to Port-au-Prince.
C. Earthquakes occur frequently in the area of Port-au-Prince,capital of Haiti.
D. At least 1770 people lost their lives in the earthquake.
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A. problem                   B. disaster                    C. phenomenon             D. news
63.   How many earthquakes of Haiti are mentioned in this article?
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