2004年MBA考前冲刺-英语模拟试题及答案(2-8)
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Part B
Directions: read the following passages carefully and then
give short answers to the five questions. Write your
answers to the ANSWER SHEET 2.
In general, our society is becoming one of giant enterprise
directed by a bureaucratic management in which man becomes
a small, well oiled cog in the machinery. The oiling is
done with higher wages, and piped music, and by
psychologists and “human-relations” experts; yet all this
oiling does not alter the fact man has become powerless,
that he does not wholeheartedly participate in his work and
he is bored with it. In fact, the blue-collar and the white-
collar workers have become economic puppets who dance to
the tune of automated machines and bureaucratic management.
The worker and employee are anxious, not only because they
might find themselves out of a job; they are anxious also
because are unable to acquire any real satisfaction or
interest in life. They live and die without ever having
confronted the fundamental realities of human existence as
emotionally and intellectually independent and productive
human beings.
Those higher up on the social ladder are no less anxious.
Their lives are no less empty than those of their
subordinates. They are even more insecure in some respects.
They are in a highly competitive race. To be promoted or to
fall behind is not a matter of salary but even more a
matter of self-respect. When they apply for their first
job, they are tested for intelligence as well as for the
right mixture of submissiveness and independence. From that
moment on they are tested again and again——by the
psychologists, for whom testing is a big business, and by
their superiors, who judge their behavior, sociability,
capacity to get along, etc.. this constant need to prove
that one is as good as or better than one’s fellow-
competitor creates constant anxiety and stress, the very
causes of unhappiness and illness.
Am I suggesting that we should return to the pre-industrial
mode of production or to nineteenth century “free
enterprise” capitalism? Certainly not. Problems are never
solved by returning to a stage which one has already
outgrown. I suggest transforming our social system from a
bureaucratically managed industrialism in which maximal
production and consumption are ends in themselves into
humanist industrialism in which man and full development of
his potentialities—— those of love and of reason ——are
the aims of all social arrangements. Production and
consumption should serve only as means to this end, and
should be prevented from ruling man.
66. Why man becomes “a well-oiled cog in the machinery?
67. What is the real cause of the anxiety of the workers
and employees?
68. According to the author, what is “real happiness of
life”?
69. How does the author solve the present social problems?
70. The author’s attitude towards industrialism might best
be summarized as one of ______
参考答案:
Part B
66. Man plays minor part in economic society, though
functioning smoothly.
67. They are deprived of their individuality and
independence.
68. Man needn’t compete with others.
69. We should enable man to fully develop his
potentialities.
70. dissatisfaction.
摘自《英语--临考点拨与模拟考场》
策划:太奇MBA培训中心
主编:周建武
出版社:中国经济出版社