自考高级英语 下册 练习答案

下册

Lesson one The Company in Which I Work

By Joseph Heller

A.Answer the following questions on the text :

1.What kind if emotion dominates all the people in the company ?

2.Why are salesmen afraid of most of the people in the company ?

3.Why do salesmen still feel pressure upon them when they are doing well ?

4.What kind of life are salesmen leading ?

5.Do salesmen have any grudge about their work ?

6.Why are people in the Market Research Department the least afraid ?

7.What is the nature of the work done by the Market Research Department ?

8.How does the narrator feel about his work now ?

9.What does he do when he is especially melancholy ?

10.What do you think is the theme of this passage ?

Key A

1.fear

2.They are always on trial , always on the verge of failure , collectively a nd individually .

3.Because they are afraid that they may start doing worse .

4.They live and work under extraordinary pressure.

5.Yes.

6.Because their salaries are small , and they know they will not have troub le finding jobs paying just as little in other companies if they lose their jobs here .

7.The nature of the work is to suggest ingenious ways of disguising reality .

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

9.He constructs tables of organization .. and classifies people in the compa ny on the basis of envy , hope, fear, ambition, frustration , rivalry , hatred , or d isappointment .

10.Big company destroies the nature of people , and people have to do what they don’t want to do in order to survive in the company .

B.Translate the following into Chinese :

1.They hold meetings ,make promotions , and allow their names to be use

d on announcements that ar

e prepared and issued by somebody else .

2.He makes it clear to me every now and then that he wishes to see ever ything coming out of my department before it is shown to other departments .

3.The result of this photocopying and distributing is that there is almost co ntinuous public scrutiny and discussion throughout the company of how well or p oorly the salesmen in each sales office of each division of the company are doing at any given time .

4.They are stimulated and motivated by discipline and direction .

5.Their budget , too , is small , for they are no longer permitted to undert ake large projects .

6.This happens not only to salesmen , but to the shrewd,,capable executives in top management .

7.It’s a real problem to decide whether it’s more boring to do something b oring than to pass along everything boring that comes in to somebody else and th en have nothing to do at all .

8.I frequen tly feel I ‘m being taken advantage of merely because I’ m ask ed to do the work I’m paid to do .

Key B