[17]-学位英语：2008年阅读理解分析

2008年阅读理解真题

I knew a man who was asked to be the new dean (院长) of the college of business of

a large university. When he first arrived, he studied the situation the college faced and felt that what it needed most was money. He recognized that he had a unique capacity to raise money, and he developed a real sense of vision about fund-raising as his primary function.

This created a problem in the college because past deans had focused mainly on meeting day-to-day faculty needs. this new dean was never there . He was running around the country trying to raise money for research .But he was not attending to the day-to-day things as the previous dean had. The faculty, who were used to working with the person at the top , had to work through his administrative assistant.

The faculty became so upset with his absence that they sent a delegation to the president of the univerisity to demand a new dean or a fundamental change in his leadership style . the president , who knew what the dean was doing, said. “relax, he has a good administrative assistant. Give him some more time”

Within a short time. The money started pouring in and the faculty began to recognize the vision . it wasn’t long until every time they saw the dean, they would say “get out of here!we don’t want to see you. Go out and bring in more funds. Your administative assistant runs this office better than anyone else”

This man admitted to me later that the mistake he made was not doing enough team building.enough explaining , enough educating about what he was trying to accomplish. From him , I learn a powerful lesson. We need to constantly be asking ourselves, “what is neede out there, and what is my unique strength?”

16、the new dean thought that the most important thing for him to do was to ___

A gain a sense of vision

B set up a primary goal

C win the trust of the faculty

D raise money

17、the new dean was different from the past deans in that___

A、he was less responsible

B he didn’t attend to daily things

C he had an administrative assistant

D he didn’t like to talk with others

18、we can learn from the passage that the faculty____

A、was not well paid for their work

B didn’t understand the new dean’s ideas at first

C had a conflict with the president of the university

D didn’t want to work with the administrative assistant

19、the faculty would ask the new dean to get out because they_____

A、were upset by his deadership style

B wanted to get rid of him

C were unhappy with his explanation

D wanted him to bring back more money

20、what was the mistake the new dean realized he had made?

A he was absent all the year around

B he was insensitive to the faculty’s need

C he didn’t communicate well with the faculty

D he didn’t work hard to accomplish his goal

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Is new technology damaging our ability to communicate ? fingers flying,we can blog (写博克文章), email, and enter chat rooms. But, as we type our millions of words, something is being lost . As our virtual skills increase, I wonder if our ability to communicate using speech is on the decline.

Young people send me dozens of emails from schools and universities .They often attach long lists questions,to which they want detail reponses. Time is short. So my reply is usually that they can phone me and I will do my best to answer.

They very rarely do , at least partly because their oral and telephone skills are less developed than their ability to type ,text and email. Yet to adapt an old business saying a meeting is worth five phone calls and a phone call is worth five emails.

Direct communication can quickly lead to bonding and trust .people are more likely to reveal what they are thinking when they actually speak to another person. Most are wary of committing themselves in writing.

The great tragedy , of coures, is that the phone was invented before the computer.if it had been the other way around, internet forums would now be filled with the