A.to
B.of
C.at
D.with
Even after reading it for three lines,he couldn’t_____the meaning of that letter.
A. conceive
B. consult
C. contrast
D. concern
After reading the story what can we infer about the hospital?
A.h is a children’s hospital.
B.It has strict rules about visiting hour.
C.The conditions there aren’t very good.
D.The nurses and doctors there don’t work hard.
After reading the story, you can probably tell which of the following is NOT true?
A. Mr. Green didn't go to the police station until the man got off his car and ran away.
B. Mr. Green would go to the police station as soon as possible.
C. The robber got out of Mr. Green's car at the outskirts of London safely.
D. Mr. Green might not go to the police station unless he was wanted.
Task 4
Direction: The following is a list of terms used in Safety Management. After reading it, you are required to find the items equivalent to those given in Chinese in the table below. Then you should mark the corresponding letter in order of the numbered blanks, 53 through 57, on the Answer Sheet.
A ---------------- Warning equipment
B ---------------- Accident management
C ---------------- Protection measures
D ---------------- Risk assessment
E ---------------- Administrative controls
F ---------------- Detection technique
G ---------------- Failure analysis
H ---------------- Responsible person
I ---------------- Harmful substances
J ---------------- Protection devices
K ---------------- Accident statistics
L ---------------- Safety standards
M ---------------- Accident promotion
N ---------------- Monitoring system
O ---------------- Special operation
P ---------------- Medical aid
Q ---------------- Emergency rescue
Examples: (Q) 应急救援 (D) 风险评估
53.() 事故统计 () 检测技术
54. () 报警设备 () 医疗救护
55. () 有害物质 () 管理控制
6. () 保护措施 () 责任人
57. () 特殊作业 () 失效分析
Think before you read. Before you read the text, ask yourself the questions that why you are reading it and what you want to get from it. These will help you choose what words you need to know and what words you can skip or scan.
Think while you are reading. Can you get the meaning of the text without looking up new words in a dictionary? A text will often give examples that may help you understand some words. For example: Many large Russian cities, such as Chelyabinsk and Irkutsk, have taken steps to protect their culture. The words "Chelyabinsk' and "Irkutsk' may be new to us, but the sentences before and after it tell us what they are.
Think after you read. What is the main idea of the text? Is the text too easy or too hard for you?
If you practice reading and thinking in this way, you will become a better reader and you will learn better and faster.
This passage is probably taken from______.
A.a newspaper for general readers
B.a magazine for language teachers
C.a book for language learners
D.an advertisement for a new book
As the college is a virtual organisation using serviced training rooms, Judy rarely sees her manager Blake Jones. However, he contacted her recently to suggest that they should conduct her fi rst appraisal and a date and time was agreed. Blake explained that ‘it would be just a general chat looking at how the year had gone. We need to do one to satisfy the college and the IMF’. The time of the appraisal was set for 3.00 pm, fi nishing at 5.00 pm.
The appraisal did start with a general discussion. Blake outlined the plans of the organisation and his own promotion hopes. Judy was surprised to see that Blake was not following any standard list of questions or noting down any of the answers she made. She told him that one of her main problems was the numeracy level of some of the candidates. She recognised that the course had no pre-conditions, ‘but it does require some basic mathematical skills that some of our candidates just do not have’.
After listening to Judy for a while Blake produced a statistical summary of the feedback questionnaires from the courses she had run in the last year. He said that the organisation expected its lecturers to attain an acceptable result in all 10 questions given in the post-course questionnaire. An acceptable result ‘is that 90% of all candidates said that they were ‘satisfi ed or very satisfi ed’ with key aspects of the course’. Judy had achieved this on seven of the questions but specifi cally failed on the following performance measures;
– Percentage of candidates who felt that the course was relevant to their current job – only 65% of your candidates felt that the course was relevant to their current job.
– Percentage of candidates who passed the examination – only 88?88% of your candidates passed the examination.
– Percentage of candidates who felt that the course pace was satisfactory – only 75% of your candidates felt that the pace of the course was satisfactory.
After expressing her surprise that she had not been given this information before, she immediately returned to the problem of numeracy skills. ‘As I told you’ she said ‘some of these students lack the mathematical skills to pass. That’s not my fault, it is yours – you should not have let them on the course in the fi rst place. You are just fi lling the places to make money’.
After a heated discussion, Blake then turned to the ‘last thing on my agenda’. He explained that it was only college policy to give pay increases to lecturers who had achieved 90% in all 10 questions, so there would be no increase for Judy next year. However, he also needed to discuss her workload for next year. He produced a spreadsheet and had just begun to discuss course planning and locations in great detail when his mobile phone rang. ‘I am sorry, Judy, I have to collect the children from school – I must go. I will write down your planned course assignments and e-mail them to you. I think that was a very useful discussion. Overall we are very happy with you. See you at the end-of-year party, and of course at next year’s appraisal.’ He left at 4.30 pm.
Required:
(a) Based on Judy’s appraisal, evaluate the appropriateness of the appraisal process and performance measures at the National College, from both an employee and an organisational perspective. (15 marks)
(b) Explain the concept and purpose of competency frameworks for organisations, assessing their potential use at the National College and the Institute of Managerial Finance. (10 marks)