2021年秋期1378國開電大《管理英語3》歷年期末考試(第三題閱讀選擇)題庫(珍藏版)

1、2021年秋期1378國開電大管理英語3歷年期末考試（第三題閱讀選擇） 題庫（珍藏版）說明：更新至2021年7月試題。試題Im Michael Bush, Managing Director of Hoogle Engineering. I am pleased to welcome you here to our website and 1 d like to tell you a little about the company and its organization. Hoogle Engineering was set up in 1960. It was divided into

2、several departments at that time, such as the sales department, marketing department , and production department. Lots of managers were employed to manage it all.Fortunately things are different now. Sixty people are employed by Hoogle and communication between departments is considered to be one of

3、 the most important aspects of the business. The market is global so we need to make contact with customers worldwide, not just locally.But in the old days we were all in different departments and never spoke to each other. We had a tall structure. Traditionally we had people at the first level on t

4、he shop floor, manufacturing products according to the instructions which they were given. Then you had a supervisory level of people who supervised them every day. Then you moved up to the middle management, who were doing the tasks of getting new business, and then you had the senior management te

5、am , and then you had the board , who decided the business strategy. So there were a lot of levels in the company in the old days actually.The structure today is that we form teams within teams to place people who can manufacture a product. Each team has members that can manufacture different produc

6、ts. The actual teams now are self-managing, so we don，t even have team leaders. Youve got the teams, and then you，ve got two people, only two people, who are what you think of as management. This is generally called flat structure.Hoogle Engineering was set up in 答案the twentieth centuryof management

7、 in atall structure.There are many different 答案levelsPeople in a flat structure usually work in .答案teamsthe passage EXCEPT that functionsAll of the following statements are true according to 答案the author thinks the two structures have the sameThe best title for the passage would be ” 答案Organization

8、Structure in Hoogle Engineering 試題Im Michael Bush, Managing Director of Hoogle Engineering. I am pleased to welcome you here to our website and Id like to tell you a little about the company and its organization. Hoogle Engineering was setup in 1960. It was divided into several departments at that t

9、ime, such as the sales department, marketing department, and production department. Lots of managers were employed to manage it all.Fortunately things are different now. Sixty people are employed by Hoogle and communication between departments is considered to be one of the most important aspects of

10、 the business. The market is global so we need to make contact with customers worldwide, not just locally.But in the old days we were all in different departments and never spoke to each other. We had at all structure. Traditionally we had people at the first level on the shop floor, manufacturing p

11、roducts according to the instructions which they were given. Then you had a supervisory level of people who supervised them everyday. Then you moved up to the middle management, who were doing the tasks of getting new business, and then you had the senior management team, and then you had the board,

12、 who decided the business strategy. So there were a lot of levels in the company in the old days actually.The structure today is that we form teams within teams to place people who can manufacture a product. Each team has members that can manufacture different products. The actual teams now are self

13、-managing, so we don，t even have team leaders. You，ve got the teams, and then you，ve got two people, only two people, who are what you think of as management. This is generally called flat structure.Who is telling the information about Hoogle Engineering?答案Managing Director.How many people are emplo

14、yed by Hoogle Engineering? 答案60.Why is it necessary to make contact with customers worldwide?答案Because the market is global.Which of the following statements is NOT true?答案The speaker thinks the two structures have the same functions.What kind of organizational structure was Hoogle Engineering? 答案At

15、 all structure.試題Of all the family members, grandparents are probably the least valued. They are just the people who have always been around. They make a fuss over the children in the family, showoff to their friends the achievements of this child or that child, and show countless pictures of new ba

16、bies. Grandfathers can fix anything and grandmothers always have homemade biscuits around.When you are small, it is fun to stay with your grandparents because they always let you do things you can，t do at home, and of course, they buy you things. They are always able to baby-sit because they don，t g

17、o out much and actually prefer to see their grandchildren. They are usually good for a small loan now and then that does not need to be paid back because they turned it into a gift. You respectfully listen to their advice but do not follow it because they are old and do not understand how things are

18、 in this day and age. You thank them politely for what they do for you, and then do not call or visit them until you need something else. And, of course, you never tell them how dear they are to you because they know how you feel about them anyway. Then all of a sudden, they are no longer there to d

19、o the things that only- grandparents can do, and you find yourself wishing that you had told them what they meant to you as people and not as grandparents.What is the position of grandparents in the family? 答案They are the least important members of the family.What do grandparents never do?答案Telling

20、their grandchildren how dear they are to them.Why don，t children need to payback the loan from their grandparents?答案Grandparents turn the loan into a gift.Why don，t children take their grandparents advice?答案Their advice is not of any help in the present situation.How do children feel after their gra

21、ndparents died?答案They regret they didn，t express their true feelings to them.試題On Christmas Eve一the night before Christmas Day一children all over Britain put a stocking at the end of their beds before they go to sleep. Their parents usually tell them that Father Christmas will come during the night.F

22、ather Christmas is very kind and hearted. He gets to the top of each house and climbs down the chimney into the fireplace. He fills each of the stockings with Christmas presents.Of course, Father Christmas isn，t real. In Jim and Kates house, aFather Christmas” is really Mr Green. Mr Green doesn，t cl

23、imb down the chimney. He waits until the children are asleep. Then he quietly goes into their bedrooms and fills their stockings with small presents. When they were very young, Mr Green sometimes wore a red coat. But he doesn，t do that now. The children are no longer young, and they know who “Father

24、 Christmas really is. But they still put their stockings at the end of their beds.Christmas Eve is .答案the night before Christmas DayFather Christmas often puts presents .答案into children，s stockingsWhen the children were very young, .答案they didn，t know who Father Christmas wasWhen the children are ol

25、der, they .答案know that Father Christmas is really their fatherFather Christmas comes into the house through the .答案chimney試題The 2014 Ebola outbreak is the largest in history and the first Ebola outbreak in Test Africa. Although the current epidemic does not cause a significant risk to other nations,

26、 many countries, including China and the United States of America, have actually been working closely with the Ebola hit states. For example, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is taking precautions at home besides its activities abroad.CDC， s team of virus hunters” is supported

27、 by specialized public health teams both in West Africa and at the CDC Atlanta headquarters. Together, they offer continuous support to save lives and protect people. CDC works closely with a number of US government agencies, national and international partners. CDC， s experience of working with Ebo

28、la is important to the World Health Organization，s growing West Africa Ebola response.On Sept. 2, 2014 , CDC Director, Tom Frieden called for more international partners to join this effort. The sooner the world comes together to help West Africa, the safer we all will be. We know how to stop this o

29、utbreak. There is a window of opportunity to do sothe challenge is to scale up the massive response needed to stop this outbreak. ”CDC， s response to Ebola is the largest international outbreak response in CDC， s history with over 100 disease specialists on the ground in West Africa , supported by h

30、undreds of public health emergency response experts stateside, activated at Level 1, its highest level, because of the significance of this outbreak.The CDC supports affected countries to establish Emergency Operations Centers at national and local levels and helps countries track the epidemic inclu

31、ding using real-time data to improve real-time response.Efforts in West Africa to identify those infected and track people who have come into contact with them are improving. The CDC is operating and supporting labs in the region to improve diagnosis and testing samples from people with suspected Eb

32、ola from around the world.Local health care systems are strengthened through communication, coordination with partners and training on infection control for health care workers and safe patient treatment.How could we describe the 2014 Ebola outbreak?答案Not the first but the largest e.The 2014 Ebola o

33、utbreak response was .答案an international activityWhat does the underlined word massive mean in Paragraph 3?答案Huge.How many disease specialists from CDC have gone to West Africa for the Ebola response? 答案10re than 100.What action does CDC take to respond to the large Ebola outbreak?答案Work closely wit

34、h governmental, national and international partners.試題There are three kinds of goals： short-term, medium-range and long-term goals. Short-term goals are those that usually deal with current activities, which we can apply on a daily basis. Such goals can be achieved in a week or less, or two weeks, o

35、r possibly months. It should be remembered that just as a building is no stronger than its foundation, our long-term goals can not amount to very much without the achievement of solid short-term goals. Upon completing our short-term goals, we should date the occasion and then add new short-term goal

36、s that will build on those that have been completed.The intermediate goals build on the foundation of the short-term goals. They might deal with just one term of school or the entire school year, or they could even extend for several years. Anytime you move a step at a time, you should never allow y

37、ourself to become discouraged or overwhelmed. As you complete each step, you will enforce the belief in your ability to grow and succeed. And as your list of completion dates grows, your motivation and desire will increase. Long-term goals maybe related to our dreams of the future. They might cover

38、five years or more. Life is not a static thing. We should never allow along-term goal to limit us or our course of action.Short-term goals are the ones that .答案keep you engaged on a daily basisThe medium-range goals are built upon .答案the completion of the short-term goals23.Once we set ourselves lon

39、g-term goals, .答案 we may change our goals as we have new ideas and opportunitiesWhat does the word “static mean in the last paragraph?答案not movingWhich of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?答案Short-term goals all help in achieving your long-term goals.試題To minimize traffic jam

40、s in the city center and on major roads out of Sydney, the City，s highway department will not agree to road closures scheduled for weekdays or Saturdays. On minor roads outside the city center, weekdays and Saturdays may be considered. You must apply for approval to do roadwork and other road-relate

41、d activities, tree cutting and use of very large construction machinery, ladders etc. Please note that approval is needed if you plan to block the road or footpath.Applications to have a road closed to traffic must be completed and sent to the Department，s Traffic Calming Committee at least a month

42、before the scheduled date.Roads can be closed partially or fully, depending on your requirements. Partial road closures are only allowed in light traffic areas where, there will be at least 1 lane for traffic with extra traffic control measures to make sure 2-way traffic can continue to run for the

43、duration of the work. Any change of traffic flow will require the proposal to be treated as a full road closure. For further information about a partial road closure, please refer to Contacts.If you are organizing a parade, march or other type of street-based event, approval is also required and we

44、recommend you choose one of our 4 preferred routes. Choosing an existingroute reduces the amount of planning you will need to do.As a rule, Sydney，s highway department will agree to road closures in the city centre scheduled for .答案SundaysIf you want a road closed to traffic, you must complete your

45、applications and send them to the relevant committee at least before the scheduled date.答案30 daysPartial of full road closures are decided by .答案the requirements from applicantsWhich is NOT the condition for partial road closures according to the passage? 答案On work days.Which is the best title of th

46、is passage?答案Road Closure Procedures in Sydney.試題Uncle Li and Uncle Wang are good friends. They live next to each other and their farms are both at the foot of the mountain. So they can help each other. But neither of them likes to use his head. Theyre both poor though they work hard. Most villagers

47、 have built new houses, but they still live in the low and broken houses. They never find out why.Once Uncle Li went to town to buy some medicine for his wife. In the town he heard the apples in a city were expensive. He told Uncle Wang about it as soon as he went back. They decided to carry some ap

48、ples to the city. They borrowed some money from their friends and bought nearly 1, 000 kilograms of apples in the villages and carried them to the city on a tractor. Bad luck! A lot of apples have already been carried there when they arrived. A few days later they had to sell them at a low price （價(jià)格

49、）.They felt unhappy and returned to their village.“I can，t understand why we sustained （蒙受）losses in business while others always profit （盈利）” Uncle Li asked one day.“The tractor was too small. Uncle Wang said without thinking. We 11 carry more apples on a truck next time!“I agree! said Uncle Li. Ho

50、w foolish （傻的）we were!”Uncle Li and Uncle Wang live in the low and broken houses because .答案they re both poorThe two farmers carried the apples to the city to . 答案make a profitThe tow farmers had to sell their apples at a low price because . 答案a lot of apples had been already carried to the cityUncl

51、e Li and Uncle Wang were unhappy because .答案they had sustained losses in businessWhich of the following is true?答案Neither of the farmers is clever.試題Without good budget management, you are likely to overspend on marketing accidentally. Here are three steps that help to make a good marketing budget.S

52、tep 1: Organize financial informationThe first step is to be clear of your current financial situation. You need to know how much money your company makes monthly and the changes that might arise in the future. Although income flows change throughout the year, you must organize the information based

53、 on reliable revenue-the minimum amount of money your company makes each month.A realistic budget plan will always focus on the income that exceeds the expenses. Not the total revenue that comes in. When you have determined the amount of disposable income available for the company, you should determine where the money will go.Step 2: Determine where you want to spend marketing fundsAfter you know the total amount available to spend on marketing, t