［D］“Some people have suggested a number of things like using conviction records as a performance criterion. However, we know that’s not fair—too many other things are involved. Bad paperwork increases the chance that you lose in court, but good paperwork doesn’t necessarily mean you’ll win. We tried setting up team competitions based on the excellence of the reports, but the guys caught on to that pretty quickly. No one was getting any type of reward for winning the competition, and they figured why should they labor when there was no payoff.”
［E］The problem occurs when they get back to the station. They hate to do the paperwork, and because they dislike it, the job is frequently put off or done inadequately. This lack of attention hurts us later on when we get to court. We need clear, factual reports. They must be highly detailed and unambiguous. As soon as one part of a report is shown to be inadequate or incorrect, the rest of the report is suspect. Poor reporting probably causes us to lose more cases than any other factor.
［F］So I just don’t know What to do. I’ve been groping in the dark in a number of years. And I hope that this seminar will shed some light on this problem of mine and help me out in my future work.
［G］A large metropolitan city government was putting on a number of seminars for administrators, managers and/or executives of various departments throughout the city. At one of these sessions the topic to be discussed was motivation—how we can get public servants motivated to do a good job. The difficulty of a police captain became the central focus of the discussion.
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G→41→42→43→44→45→F
［试题分析］
样题中共有七个段落，其中已给出篇首和篇尾段落。首先我们看一下已知段落。首段说的是整个文章的背景，一个大都市的市政厅举行全市各部门管理、行政人员的研讨会，其中有一个研讨会的主题是如何发动公务员做好工作。这个研讨会上一个警察局警长的难题成了讨论的焦点。尾段是一个引语：“所以我不知道该怎么办。多年来我一直在黑暗中探索。我希望这次研讨会能给我的难题带来些启发，能帮我应对未来的工作。”然后我们再看一下其余的选项，发现都是引语，可以推断，除第一段外剩下的部分都是警长说的话。尾段似乎是一个结语，第一段是介绍背景，那么第二段应该是话语的开端。接着，我们将选项，即其余的五段都通读一遍。[A]大意是说警长不知道采取什么样的措施才能调动起警员的积极性，因为面临许多困难；[B]大意是为什么警长说警员不能因为报告写得不好而得不到提升；[C]大意是警长叙说起警员对实际工作的爱好；[D]是说将报告作为评判警员表现的标准不太合理，实施效果不明显；[E]大意是讲述警长碰到的具体难题是什么。
那么我们首先来看第二段，已经推断出第二段是发言的开始，而由第一段可知是警长讲述难题，那么就需要在选项中辨别哪个关于这个问题发言的开始了。[C][E]都提到了problem这个词，但[E]一开始就讲警员回到警察局什么的，显得很突兀；而[C]感觉像一个娓娓道来的故事，比较切合。
由第二段来推断第三段，第二段第一句是说警长的难题出在警员身上，而接下来讲述了警员们喜欢自己的工作，这是正面的表现；可以推断，真正问题应该在后面，选项中[E]就是讲的一个难题，而且开头和上文连接自然，“一回到警局问题就来了”，正好形成一个转折。