________at his model plane over the weekend,he didn’t complete it.A.As he worked hardB.H
________at his model plane over the weekend,he didn’t complete it.
A.As he worked hard
B.Hard as he worked
C.How he worked hard
D.How hard he worked
________at his model plane over the weekend,he didn’t complete it.
A.As he worked hard
B.Hard as he worked
C.How he worked hard
D.How hard he worked
A. respective
B. respectful
C. respectable
D. respecting
Henry Ford changed the American society ______. ()
A.through great social revolution
B.through automotive technological revolution
C.through numerous mechanical inventions
D.through radical political reforms
利用你关于边际收益产品的知识,解释下列现象:
(1)一个著名的网球明星在一个30秒钟的电视商业片中得到200000美元。而那个扮演他的搭档的演员只得到500美元。
(2)为了让一个还有两年合同期满的经营不善的储蓄贷款机构的总裁离职,向他支付离职工资。
(3)一架载客400人的大型喷气客机比载客250人的客机定价高,即使两种飞机的制造成本是相同的。
Using your knowledge of marginal revenue product , explain the following:
a. A famous tents star is paid S 200000 for appearing in a 30 - second television commercial. .The actor who plays his doubles partner is paid S 500,
b. The president of an ailing savings and loan is paid not to stay in his job for the last two years of his contract.
c. A jumbo jet carrying 400 passengers is priced higher than a 250-passenger model even though both aircraft cost the same to manufacture.
One could well imagine a dictionary entry that reads."Honda,n. automobile.cf. Af fordable,reliable,friendly. "Or in the words of the prospective car buyers portrayed in its U.S. television eommercials. "l&39;II take it. "Buyers all over the world did. pushing sales of Honda cars and Honda motorcyeles into the millions. Behind those definitions,though,there was a flesh-and-blood Honda. self-made giant of Japanese industry who hated boardrooms and preferred getting grease on his hands as he tinkered alongside his engineers with the little ears that would zoom across the Pacific and conquer America. When Soichiro Honda,84,died last week of liver failure,the company he founded in 1948 was ranked fourth in Japan and poised to displace Chrysler as the third largest producer of passenger cars in the U.S. Honda was fated to build cars, The son of a village black-smith.he was no more than six when, breathless and memorized. be ran through the streets of his native town,near Hamamatsu,chasing a Ford Model T. By 18 he bad built his first auto,powered by a discarded American airplane engine. The after months of the war provided him with priceless opportunities,especially after U.S. occupation forces purged the upper echelons(梯队) of Japanese industry and government ,opening the doors for outsiders, Honda decided to manufacture affordable motorcyeles that would allow the Japanese to move cheaply farms to cities to buy ,sell or work. Honda refused to obey the Ministry of lnternational Trade and Industry when it ordered him to stick to motoreycies. Japan,it said,did not need more than a few car manufacturers. Honda ignored them. He also helped establish the company policy of setting up factories in the U. S. when Japanese competitors such as Toyota saw no wisdom inbuilding abroad.
According to the second paragraph which one of the folowing best describes Mr. Honda?
A.Mr. Honda was an imaginary hero in Japancse Mythology
B.Mr. Honda was a diligent person who always seated himself in his office reading a great number of reports
C.Mr. Honda was a severe person who always wear clean suit and white gloves
D.Mr. Honda loved to fiddle with the little cars in the workshop accompanied by engineers.
The company Honda founded was all set to____A.become the third largest car prodocer in the U. S
B.remove Chrysler from its present position
C.put Chrysler out of business
D.push sales in the United States
Honda was fated to build cars , because____A.he was the son of a village black-smith
B.Honda decided to manufacture affordable motorcycles that would allow the Japanese to move cheaply from farms to cities to buy,sell or work
C.Ministry of International Trade and Industry of Japan said that Japan did not need more than a few car manufacturers
D.he ran chasinga Ford Model T when he was 6,and by 18 he had built his first auto. By grasping opportunities he began to manufacture motorcycles
Which of the following factors contributes to making Honda a giant automaker? A Education. aoble origin and inheritage
A.Education. aoble origin and inheritage
B.Tenacity determination and timing
C.Luck.cunnings and eruelty
D.Poverty ,inferiority and pitiablity
【C1】
A.hurt
B.pain
C.harm
D.work
You may have noticed how people who live or work closely together come to behave in a similar way. Unconsciously we copy those we are close to or love or admire, So a sportsman's individual, way of walking with raised shoulders is imitated by an admiring fan; a pair of lovers both shake their heads in the same way; an employee finds him- self duplicating his boss' habit of wagging a pen between his fingers while thinking. In every case, the influential person may not consciously notice the imitation, but he will feel comfortable in its presence. And if he does notice the matching of his gestures or movements, he finds it pleasing he is influencing people: they are drawn to him.
Sensitive people have been mirroring their friends and acquaintances all their lives, and winning affection and respect in this way without being aware of their methods. Now, for people who want to win agreement or trust, affection or sympathy, some psychologists recommend the deliberate use of physical mirroring.
The clever saleswoman echoes her lady customer's movements, tilting her head in the same way to judge a color match, or folding her arms a few seconds after the customer, as though consciously attracted by her. The customer feels that the saleswoman is in sympathy with her, and understands her needs--a promising relationship for a sale to take place. The clever lawyer, trying in a law-court to influence a judge, imitates the great man's shrugging of his shoulders, the tone of his voice and the rhythm of his speech.
Of course, physical mirroring must be subtle. If you blink every time your target blinks, or bite your bottom lip every time he does, your mirroring has become mockery and you can expect trouble. So, if you can't model sympathetically, don't play the game.
According to the passage, "physical mirroring" (Pare. 3) means ______.
A.the comfortable feeling about people with physical qualities similar to ours
B.the imitation of the gestures or movements of those we are close to, or love, or admire
C.the attraction to people with ideas, beliefs and interests like our own
D.the fact that people living or working closely together behave in a similar way
Every afternoon when John could sit up, he would describe to Tom all the things he couldsee outside the window. Tom was so attracted by the description that he could not wait for thoseone-hour periods. The window faced a park with a lovely lake. Ducks and birds played on thewater while children sailed their model boats. Young lovers walked arm in arm and a fine view ofthe city could be seen in the distance. As John described all this in detail, Tom would close hiseyes and imagine the beautiful scenes.
Days and weeks passed. One morning, the nurse found that John had passed awaypeacefully in his sleep. The next day, Tom asked if he could be moved to the bed next to thewindow. The nurse was happy to do this, and after making sure he was comfortable, she left himalone.
Slowly, painfully, Tom supported himself up with one arm to take his first look at the realworld outside, but only faced a blank wall. When the nurse came back, Tom asked her what hadmade John describe such wonderful things outside this window. She said that John was blind andcould not even see the wall. “Perhaps he just wanted to encourage you,” she added.
We can learn from Paragraph 1 that_______________ .
A.Tom was allowed to sit up
B.John and Tom were old friends
C.Tom could look out of the window
D.John and Tom were roommates in a hospital
Why did Tom expect that one-hour period every day?A.Because he could listen to what John described.
B.Because he could change the bed with John.
C.Because he could see the park by himself.
D.Because he could have a rest then.
What happened to John according to Paragraph 3?A.He went blind.
B.He fell asleep.
C.He was dead.
D.He became weaker.
What did Tom ask the nurse to do?A.To move him to another room.
B.To move him to the other bed.
C.To get him a new nurse.
D.To get him a new doctor.
How would Tom feel when he heard what the nurse said?A.Upset.
B.Happy.
C.Calm.
D.Moved.
请帮忙给出每个问题的正确答案和分析,谢谢!
of selling cars to the public which takes advantage of the greater freedom given to independent car distributors to
market cars more aggressively within the European Union. This reduces the traditional control and interference of the
automobile manufacturers, some of whom own their distributors. He has opened a number of showrooms in the
London region and by 2004 Auto Direct had 20 outlets in and around London. The concept is deceptively simple;
Mark buys cars from wherever he can source them most cheaply and has access to all of the leading volume car
models. He then concentrates on selling the cars to the public, leaving servicing and repair work to other specialist
garages. He offers a classic high volume/low margin business model.
Mark now wants to develop this business model onto a national and eventually an international basis. His immediate
plans are to grow the number of outlets by 50% each year for the next three years. Such growth will place
considerable strain on the existing organisation and staff. Each showroom has its own management team, sales
personnel and administration. Currently the 20 showrooms are grouped into a Northern and Southern Sales Division
with a small head office team for each division. Auto Direct now employs 250 people.
Mark now needs to communicate the next three-year phase of the company’s ambitious growth plans to staff and is
anxious to get an understanding of staff attitudes towards the company and its growth plans. He is aware that you
are a consultant used to advising firms on the changes associated with rapid growth and the way to generate positive
staff attitudes to change.
Required:
(a) Using appropriate strategies for managing change provide Mark with a brief report on how he can best create
a positive staff response to the proposed growth plans. (12 marks)
Obama's success isn't all good news for black Americans
As Erin White watched the election results head towards victory for Barack Obama, she felt a burden lifting from her shoulders. "In that one second, it was a validation for my whole race," she recalls.
"I've always been an achiever," says White, who is studying for an MBA at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. "But there had always been these things in the back of my mind questioning whether I really can be who I want. It was like a shadow, following me around saying you can only go so far. Now it's like a barrier has been let down."
White's experience is what many psychologists had expected - that Obama would prove to be a powerful role model for African Americans. Some hoped his rise to prominence would have a big impact on white Americans, too, challenging those who still harbour racist sentiments. "The traits that characterise him are very contradictory to the racial stereotypes that black people are aggressive and uneducated," says Ashby Plant of Florida State University. "He's very intelligent and eloquent."
Sting in the tail
Ashby Plant is one of a number of psychologists who seized on Obama's candidacy to test hypotheses about the power of role models. Their work is already starting to reveal how the "Obama effect" is changing people's views and behaviour. Perhaps surprisingly, it is not all good news: there is a sting in the tail of the Obama effect.
But first the good news. Barack Obama really is a positive role model for African Americans, and he was making an impact even before he got to the White House. Indeed, the Obama effect can be surprisingly immediate and powerful, as Ray Friedman of Vanderbilt University and his colleagues discovered.
They tested four separate groups at four key stages of Obama's presidential campaign. Each group consisted of around 120 adults of similar age and education, and the test assessed their language skills. At two of these stages, when Obama's success was less than certain, the tests showed a clear difference between the scores of the white and black participants—an average of 12.1 out of 20, compared to 8.8, for example. When the Obama fever was at its height, however, the black participants performed much better. Those who had watched Obama's acceptance speech as the Democrats' presidential candidate performed just as well, on average, as the white subjects.After his election victory, this was true of all the black participants.
Dramatic shift
What can explain this dramatic shift? At the start of the test, the participants had to declare their race and were told their results would be used to assess their strengths and weaknesses. This should have primed the subjects with "stereotype threat" – an anxiety that their results will confirm negative stereotypes, which has been shown to damage the performance of African Americans.
Obama's successes seemed to act as a shield against this. "We suspect they felt inspired and energised by his victory, so the stereotype threat wouldn't prove a distraction," says Friedman.
Lingering racism
If the Obama effect is positive for African Americans, how is it affecting their white compatriots (同胞)? Is the experience of having a charismatic (有魅力的) black president modifying lingering racist attitudes? There is no easy way to measure racism directly; instead psychologists assess what is known as "implicit bias", using a computer-based test that measures how quickly people associate positive and negative words—such as "love" or "evil"—with photos of black or white faces. A similar test can also measure how quickly subjects associate stereotypical traits—such as athletic skills or mental ability—with a particular group.
In a study that will appear in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Plant's team tested 229 students during the height of the Obama fever. They found that implicit bias has fallen by as
A.Excited.
B.Victorious.
C.Anxious.
D.Relieved.