Section Ｄ
Directions: Read the following passage and complete the sentences or answer the questions according to the information given in the passage you have just read.?
In tomorrow's offices, there will be more bosses and fewer assistants. New technologies have made clerical work so efficient that fewer workers are necessary, so one assistant may serve several bosses.
Bosses in the United States are spending twice as much time resolving employee disputes as they did just a decade ago. Corporate downsizing has made workers more insecure and competitive, increasing the number of personality conflicts that managers are forced to settle.
Fighting age bias(偏见) may be a critical workplace issue of the future. As companies depend on older, more experienced workers to solve labor shortages in the next century, managers will need to overcome the view that older workers are less productive, less flexible, and more expensive. Electronic networking will give more power to workers at the bottom of the corporate pecking order(等级排序).Computer networks allow employees to skip over chains of command and communicate directly with senior managers. The relative anonymity (匿名) of electronic communications will make low-status individuals more relaxed about expressing their points of view and offering valuable new ideas.
1. ____________________________________________ will enable low-status individuals to feel relaxed about expressing their points of view and offering valuable new ideas.
2. How could low-status workers gain more power?
3. Why should managers change the negative view of older workers?
4. Fewer workers are necessary due to _______________________________.
Keys
1.The relative anonymity (匿名) of electronic communications
2.By electronic networking.
3.Because companies will depend on older and more experienced workers to solve labor shortages in the next century.
4.high work efficiency brought by new technologies
Section Ｄ
Directions: Read the following passage and complete the sentences or answer the questions according to the information given in the passage you have just read.?
When Andrea Peterson landed her first teaching job, she faced the daunting task of creating a music program with almost no money for equipment or supplies in a climate where standards-based learning was the focus and music just provided a break for students and teachers.
For her drive and creativity in overcoming those challenges, she’s been named national teacher of the year.
Principal Waynes Kettler said he’s worked with many outstanding teachers in his 22 years as an educator, but Peterson is “just that one step above anybody I’ve ever worked with before.”
Kettler and others at Monte Cristo Elementary School talk about the ways she has introduced the learning from other classrooms into her music program and her creativity in working around things such as the lack of money for new music.
When students were reading S.E. Hinton’s novel The Outsiders in their regular classroom, Peterson helped them write a 30-minute play with scenes from the book. Then they chose three Broadway tunes that focused on race, equality and social justice, the themes of the book. Peterson composed two other sons herself after classroom discussions about the play and the book.
The honor means a lot to residents of Granie Falls. It’s inspiring to know that people from small towns can even win national honors.
As national teacher of the year, Peterson will spend the next year outside classroom, as a national and international spokeswoman for education.
Not surprisingly, she is a big believer in the value of arts education. She said it’s essential for schools to offer classes such as art or music and physical education because for some kids one of those subjects is the only thing that motivates them to come back to school day after day.