自考高级英语课后练习题及答案 下册.doc

Advanced English Lesson one The Company in Which I Work 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 and 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 trouble 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 company on the basis of envy , hope, fear, ambition, frustration , rivalry , hatred , or disappointment . 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 used on announcements that are prepared and issued by somebody else . 2. He makes it clear to me every now and then that he wishes to see everything 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 continuous public scrutiny and discussio