自考高级英语(下册)

Lesson One: The Company in Which I Work

A. Answer the following questions on the text.

1. In the company, everyone is afraid of al least one person.

2. Because their position is the lowest.

3. Because they fear that they may, start doing worse and they

should begin doing better.

4. They live and work under pressure that is extraordinary.

5. Yes.

6. Because first their salaries are small, arid they know they will

not have much trouble finding jobs paying just as little in other

companies if they lose their jobs here.

7. They are not expected to change reality, but merely to find it if

they can and suggest ingenious ways of disguising it.

8. He is bored with his work very often now.

9. On days when he's especially melancholy, he began constructing

tables of organization … classifying people in the company on the

basis of envy, hope, fear, ambition, frustration, rivalry, hatred,

or disappointment.

10. The passage is a satire on the company's ruining the normal human

feelings and on the sad fact that people scramble for power and

profit at the cost of sacrificing their dignity.

B. Translate the following into Chinese.

1．他们召开会议，研究该提升谁，别人准备并发布的声明上也要署上他们的名字。

2．他不时地让我清楚一个事实，即他希望我的部门所出的成果在显示给其他部门之前先给他看看。

3．把统计数字复印，分发，这种做法的结果是公司每个部门的每个销售办公室的推销员在任何时期内业绩的好坏都不断地处于公众的审查和评论之中。

4．纪律和指令激励并驱使他们。

5．他们的经费很少，因为不再允许他们承担大的项目。

6．不仅推销员认为（我们所做的是重要的），而且那些精明的。能力强的高级管理层的人员也这样认为。

7．做令人厌烦的事情是否比把令人厌烦的事情交给别人去做而自己却无所事事更令人厌烦呢？这真是一个要做出决定的问题。

8．我时常感到我被利用只是因为我被要求去做能付我工资的工作。

C. Fill in the blanks in each sentence with the best word or expression

from the box below, changing its from when necessary.

1. having fallen victim to

2. with honors

3. have trouble

4. was held to blame

5. credited with

6. regardless of

7. squandered

8. motivated

D. Circle the right word or expression in the brackets in each of

the following sentences.

1. incurred

2. ingenuous

3. explicit

4. compliment

5. simulated

6. brooded

7. grudge

8. shrewd

E. Explain the underlined words in English.

1. how much they sold in the same week

2. they tend to lose temper unreasonably

3. after several months of feeling sorry for his wife's death, he

usually takes up managerial position.

4. which they have to obey.

5. Usually, they are happy, full of confidence and glad to be with

people.

6. it's a stupid person who believes.

7. except a temporary feeling of pride and highly spirited, I only

feel bored and hopeless.

8. after a difficult period of time, an emotion of enormous

disappointment comes over me

F. Translate the following into English.

It' s not easy to work in a big company. There is the rigid

hierarchy in such company. If you want to achieve success and

promotion, you’ll have to do your work well under great

pressure and be subjected to the discipline and direction.

Every day you work under strict supervision with great fear.

If you' re doing a job without any opportunity to be promoted,

and you can t find another job for certain reasons, you'll be

bored with the present work and feel tired of it. You will

lose hope for the future and lose your ambition and motivation

for the work, and finally turn to be a mediocre person.

G. Write a short passage of 150 - 200 words in English on the topic "Do You Like to Be a Salesman in a Big Company? Why or Why Not?".

I Like to Be a Salesman in a Big Company There are many kinds of positions in a big company. If I can choose one of them, I'd like

to be a salesman. For one thing, I' 11 be able to fully explore

my latent power by working under pressure, facing challenges from

the highly competitive market. To be a salesman, I can usually be vigorous, friendly, generous and confident. Travelling will be

part of my job as a salesman which allows me to meet people of