Question

Several days ago, a Beijing-based IT company fired about 400 people overnight. No one had expected the job cuts, which broke with traditional ways of letting go of workers in China. Moreover, what was special about this case was that the day before the 400 were fired, they all received from their boss a gift—the book “Who Moved My Cheese?”

The book—a bestseller in the US—is being used by men and women to deal with changes in their lives and work. Some large organizations, including Coca-Cola, Kodak and General Motors, ask their employees to read it in order to encourage them to be active towards changes.

Cheese is something related to everyone’s livelihood-Our jobs, the industries we work in, relationships and love as well.

With China’s official entry into the WTO, the whole nation will face up to more changes and challenges. So what we should do once this “cheese” on which we are so dependent is moved?

“Whatever challenges and changes we meet, we should face up to them bravely,” Jiang Hengwei, a civil servant said after reading the book.

Professor Zhang Yang in Renmin University of China agrees. “We should change our way of thinking. The coming competitive foreign companies and products provide us with great chances to learn from them and improve our own products to meet international standards and be more competitive.”

“With hard work and wisdom, we will create a much larger and better piece of cheese.” Zhang smiled confidently.

1.. The whole passage is about_________.

A. a bestseller in the US

B. what people think about China’s entry into the WTO

C. the change in people’s attitude towards changes and challenges

D. how a book influences the Chinese workers

2. The company in Beijing gave each of the 400 fired workers a copy of “Who Moved My Cheese ”in order to_________.

A. be more competitive with foreign firms

B. find an excuse for their job cuts

C. let the workers make a living on their own

D. encourage the fired workers

3.. The word “cheese” in the passage can refer to_________.

A. something we depend on

B. a most important kind of food

C. change or challenge

D. way of life

4.. From what Heng wei and Professor Zhang Yang said, we can know that____________.

A. they have different opinions on changes and challenges

B. people are not afraid of competition from foreign companies

C. the Chinese people are ready to face any changes and challenges

D. they are both greatly encouraged by the book

 

Answer 1

1.C

2.D

3.A

4.C

【解析】

試題分析:在生活中，人們往往會遇到很多突如其來的的變故，可能是工作的改變，也可能是人們居住環(huán)境或者與別人關(guān)系的改變，那么如何去面對這些變化呢？在本文中作者通過介紹北京一家IT公司一夜間400人下崗的事情，告訴人們當遇到這些問題時，應(yīng)該勇于面對。

1.主旨大意題。本文通過介紹一家公司一夜間400人下崗的事情，引出討論的話題，即如何應(yīng)對生活或工作中突然發(fā)生的變動或者挑戰(zhàn)，然后通過一位教授和一個公務(wù)員的話介紹了人們對待變動的態(tài)度，故判斷C選項內(nèi)容可以概括文章中心。

2.細節(jié)理解題。從文章第二段….. ask their employees to read it in order to encourage them to be active towards changes.判斷答案選D。

3. 詞義猜測題。根據(jù)文章第三段內(nèi)容Cheese is something related to everyone’s livelihood-Our jobs, the industries we work in, relationships and love as well.可以推斷cheese在此處指人們賴以生存的東西，故答案選A。

4.細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)文章后三段內(nèi)容可知在新的經(jīng)濟環(huán)境下，中國人民已經(jīng)做好了應(yīng)對任何變化和挑戰(zhàn)的準備，選C。

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