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Part B
Read the following three texts. Answer the questions below each text by choosing [A], [B] ,[ C] or [D] Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET.
Text 1
However important we may regard school life to be, there is no denying the fact that children spend more time at home than in the classroom. Therefore, the great influence of parents cannot be ignored or discounted by the teacher. They can become strong allies of the school personnel or they can consciously or unconsciously hinder and obstruct curricular objectives.
Administrators have been aware of the need to keep parents informed of the newer method used in schools. Many principals have conducted workshops explaining such matters as the reading readiness program, manuscript writing, and developmental mathematics.
Moreover, the classroom teacher, with the permission of the supervisors, can also play an important role in enlightening parents. The many interviews carried on during the year as well as new ways of reporting pupils' progress, can significantly aid in achieving a harmonious interplay between school and home.
To illustrate, suppose that a father has been drilling Junior in arithmetic processes night after night. In a friendly interview, the teacher can help the parent convert his natural paternal interest into productive channels. He might be persuaded to let Junior participate in discussing the family budget, buying the food, using a yardstick or measuring cup at home, setting the clock, calculating mileage on a trip, and engaging in scores of other activities that have a mathematical basis.
If the father follows the advice, it is reasonable to assume that he will soon realize his son is making satisfactory progress in mathematics and, at the same time, enjoying the work.
Too often, however, teachers' conferences with parents are devoted to petty accounts of children' s offences, complaints about laziness and poor work habits, and suggestions for penalties and rewards at home
What is needed is a more creative approach in which the teacher, as a professional adviser,plants ideas in parents' minds for the best utilization of the many hours that the child spends out of the classroom.
In this way, the school and the home join forces in stimulating the fullest development of youngsters' capacities.
36. A method of parent-teacher communication NOT mentioned or referred to by the author is .
A. home training
B. demonstration lesson
C. parent-teacher interviews
D. new progress report forms
37. It can be reasonably inferred that the author .
A. thinks that teachers of this generation are inferior to those of the last generation
B. is satisfied with present relationships between home and school
C. feels that the traditional program in mathematics is slightly superior to the development program
D. feels that parent-teacher interviews can be made much more constructive than they are at present
38. The author' s primary purpose in writing this passage is to .
A. improve the teaching of mathematics
B. tell parents to pay more attention to the guidance of teachers in the matter
C. help ensure that every child' s capacities are fully developed when leaving school
D. urge the use of a much underused resource-the parent
39. The phrase "an important role in enlightening parents" in the third paragraph most probably means an,important role in .
A. causing parents to understand
B. persuading parents
C. understanding parents
D. discussing with parents
40. The attitude of the author towards the role of parents is .
A. positive
B. negative
C. doubtful
D. unclear
Text 2
Often referred to as "the heart of a factoring organization", the credit department is responsible for granting credit to clients' customers and for collecting the accounts receivable purchased by the factor. When factored clients submit customer orders for credit approval, the credit department analyzes the financial condition and credit worthiness of the customer, and then makes a decision to approve or decline the order. The department must then monitor the condition of approved customers and collect all due receivables. Careful credit checking and effective collection procedures in this department can greatly reduce the risks inherent in factoring.
As the head of the credit department, the credit manager is responsible for seeing that the department operates effectively. He must develop the factor' s credit policies in consultation with senior factoring associates, and he is in overall command of everything from credit and collections to bankruptcy and liquidations. If the factor is a commercial bank division, the credit manager is a bank' s vice president, and credit policy must also be approved by top management of the bank.
Assisting the credit manager may be several supervisors who have credit responsibilities of their own and who also oversee the analysis and approval of customer orders by the credit specialists. Credit supervisors typically spend about eighty percent of their time handling large customer orders. If a customer order exceeds a supervisor' s credit authority , he is responsible for making recommendations to the credit manager. A supervisor also reviews a subordinate' s credit decision if the subordinate is unsure of the extent of the credit risk or if a client questions a particular credit decision.
In extremely large credit exposures, supervisors bear the responsibility for analyzing the credit position of the customers and deciding on credit limits. To do this, they must regularly obtain current data from various credit information sources. They must also have extensive contact with each customer to determine operational performance and progress. Frequently, supervisors are called upon to give advice on what should be done to improve a company' S financial condition. Meeting all these responsibilities requires that each supervisor continuously observe and study the industries with which he is concerned, so that he is capable of anticipating market changes which may affect his accounts.
A supervisor' s major challenge is to maintain a fine balance between the demands of clients that all their customer orders be approved and the questionable financial position of some of the customers. In reviewing any credit decision, a supervisor must be capable of weighing a variety of elements, including the possibility of losing the client, the customer' s credit position, and the extent of any possible loss.
41. What is the main idea of the passage?
A. The credit manager' s responsibility.
B. The supervisor' s responsibility.
C. The working procedures of a credit department.
D. The command and control in the credit department.
42. Which of the following is NOT true?
A. The credit policy can be a part of a commercial bank' s policy.
B. The credit policy rests only with the credit manager.
C. The supervisors are the helping hands of the credit manager.
D. A credit manager of the credit department is not necessarily a bank' s leading person.
43. By "a customer order", the customer is most probably trying to get
A. some goods from the factor
B. some money from the factor
C. some goods from the factor' s client
D. some money from the factor' s client
44. "Credit exposures ”probably means
A. uncovered risks
B. approved limits
C. expected sums
D. protected sources
45. The word " anticipating" (Para.4, Sent.5)can be safely replaced by
A. bringing
B. preventing
C. protecting
D. expecting
Text 3
Bill Gates, the billionaire Microsoft chairman without a single earned university degree, is by his success raising new doubts about the worth of the business world' s favorite academic title : the MBA ( Master of Business Administration).
The MBA, a 20th century product, always has borne the mark of lowly commerce and greed on the tree-lined campuses ruled by purer disciplines such as philosophy and literature.
But even with the recession apparently cutting into the hiring of business school graduates,about 79,000 people were expected to receive MBAs in 1993. This is nearly 16 times the number of business graduates in 1960, a testimony to the widespread assumption that the MBA is vital for young men and women who want to run companies some day.
"If you are going into the, corporate world it is still a disadvantage not to have one, " said Donald Morrison, professor of marketing and management science. "But in the last five years or so, when someone asks, ' Should I attempt to get an MBA?" The answer a lot more is: ' It depends. ' "
The success of Bill Gates and other non-MBAs, such as the late Sam Walton of Wal-Mart Stores Inc., has helped inspire self-conscious debates on business school campuses over the worth of a business degree and whether management skills can be taught.
The Harvard Business Review printed a lively, fictional exchange of letters to dramatize complaints about business degree holders. The article called MBA hires "extremely disappointing" and said "MBAs want to move up too fast, they don' t understand politics and people, and they aren' t able to function as part of a team until their third year. But by then, they' re out looking for other jobs. "
The problem, most participants in the debate acknowledge, is that the MBA has acquired an image of future riches and power far beyond its actual importance and usefulness.
Enrollment in business schools exploded in the 1970s and 1980s and created the assumption that no one who pursued a business career could do without one. The growth was fueled by a drive against the anti-business values of the 1960s and by the women' s movement.
Business people who have hired or worked with MBAs say those with the degrees often know how to analyze systems but are not so skillful at motivating people. "They don' t get a lot of grounding in the people side of the business", said James Shaffer, vice-president and principal of the Towers Pen-in Management Consulting Firm.
46. According to Paragraph 2, what is the general attitude towards business on campuses dominated by purer disciplines?
A. Scornful.
B. Appreciative.
C. Envious.
D. Realistic.
47. It seems that the controversy over the value of MBA degrees had been fueled mainly by .
A. the complaints from various employers
B. the success of many non-MBAs
C. the criticism from the scientists of purer disciplines
D. the poor performance of MBAs at work
48. What is the major weakness of MBA holders according to the Harvard Business Review?
A. They are usually self-centered.
B. They are aggressive and greedy.
C. They keep complaining about their jobs.
D. They are not good at dealing with people.
49. From the passage we know that most MBAs
A. can climb the corporate ladder fairly quickly
B. quit their jobs once they are familiar with their workmates
C. receive salaries that do not match their professional training
D. cherish unrealistic expectations about their future
50. What is the passage mainly about?
A. The reason for an enrollment in MBA programs.
B. The necessity of reforming MBA programs in business schools.
C. Doubts about the worth of holding an MBA degree.
D. A debate held recently on university campuses.
答案与解析：
Part B
Text l
阅读赏析
本文讲述了家长对孩子教育的重要性。家长的影响是不容忽视的，所以学校的校长和指导老师们需要将学校内采用的新方法对家长们进行讲解，以求得配合;老师们应更好地利用和家长的会面，多汇报学生的进步。家长在家里采用激励的办法，引导学生热爱学习。总之，学校和家长携起手来才能最大限度地激发孩子们的潜力。
答案及解析
36.B
【命题目的】此题考查对文章信息的捕捉。
【解题要点】A项意为“家教”，在第四段中提到“父亲可以在家里帮 助训练孩子的计算能力”，这是“家教”的一种方式;C项意为“老师 家长见面会”，在第四段第二句中提到过;D项意为“学生进步报告”，文章第三段第二句提到“以新的方式报告学生进步”。8项意为“示范课(公共课)”，全文中未提到过。
37.D
【命题目的】此题考查推理能力。
【解题要点】A项“这一代老师不如上一代老师”，作者没有这方面的表述，此项是无关项。作者在文章中主要讲述的就是如何在未来通过增进学校和家庭的互动来促进学生的学习和发展，显然是对现状不满，所以B项是不正确的。C项文中未提及。D项“作者认为家长老师会面还可以做得更好”，在倒数第二段提到“老师应用一种更有创造性的方式与家长沟通，使得他们知道如何有效利用课堂外的时间”，第四段中也提到“在友好的会面中提醒家长利用一种有效的方式帮助孩子学数学”。
38.D
【命题目的】此题考查考生归纳中心思想的能力。
【解题要点】A项“改进数学教育”显然与中心无关，在第四段中提到“在家里培养孩子学习数学能力”只是举的一个例子，为了说明如何以一种更好的方式在家庭中教育孩子，所以不选A项。8、C两项都很牵强附会，没涉及文章中心。第一段和第四段都强调家长的重大影响，“他们是教育孩子的同盟军”，作者目的正是“呼吁学校充分开发潜在的人力资源——家长”。
39.A
【命题目的】此题考查根据上下文猜测短语含义的能力。
【解题要点】在解题过程中，最有可能遇到的问题是enlighten这个生词。即使不知道这个词的含义，也可通过上下文，推测出来其含义。在本句后面接着就具体讲了通过“和家长会面以及汇报学生进步的新方法来促进学校和家庭的和谐互动”，这是进一步阐释老师在推动 家长方面可以发挥的作用，因为是“互动”，就不可能是单方面的“说服”，故排除8项。而C项“理解家长”和D项“和家长讨论”，用在此处无法表示老师的积极作用，从而推断此处意为“在启发家长方面有重要作用”。
40.A
【命题目的】此题考查考生推断作者观点态度的能力。
【解题要点】通观全文，都贯彻着一种对更多发挥家长的作用的希望，所以推断作者对家长的作用持肯定的态度。
Text 2
阅读赏析
本文主要讲述了信用部门的职责和权力。作为代理机构的核心，信用部门对客户信贷活动负责，并收集应收款项。信用部门主管，即信用经理，有责任使整个部门正常运转，由几个部门监督人员来协助其工作。在信用风险极大的情况下，监督人员有责任分析客户的信用情况并决定信用限制。但他们也面临挑战，要协调主管对客人订单的需要和信用风险的平衡。
答案及解析
41.D
【命题目的】此题考查考生归纳中心思想的能力。
【解题要点】文章第一句，“信用部是代理机构的核心，负责给委托人的客户发放贷款以及收集代理商购买的应收账目”。全文围绕此句展开，讲解“信用部的管理和控制”。A、B、c三项文章都提到了，但是都只是一个方面，不够概括。
42.B
【命题目的】此题考查对文章细节的捕捉。
【解题要点】文章第二段第二句提到“信用经理要和几个信用合作人 协商过后，才能制定信用政策”，所以，8项是错误的。第三段第一句 “几个有信用责任的监督人协助信用经理并监督其他信用专家的工 作”，所以c项是正确的。第二段最后一句表明“信用经理可以是副 行长”，即“不一定是银行的最高领导”，故D项是正确的。
43.D
【命题目的】此题考查语句释义能力。
【解题要点】factor意为“代理商，代理经营，代管”，client意为“代理委托人”，customer“客户”。a customer order意为“客户订单”，即“向代理委托人贷款的请求”。首先，factor即“代理商”是不会直接发给顾客任何事物或金钱的，先排除A、B两项。第一段第二句详细解释了代理商要如何审查客户的还款能力和信用度，由此可知是客户希望贷款。
44.A
【命题目的】此题考查语句释义能力。
【解题要点】A项意为“信用风险”，B项意为“通过的限额”，C项意 为“预期的数额”，D项意为“受保护的来源”。上文提到“the extent of the credit risk or if a client questions a particular credit decision”.此处紧承上文，作出表述，因而可推测“credit exposure”意为“信用风 险”。
45.D
【命题目的】此题考查单词释义能力。
【解题要点】A项意为“带来”，8项意为“防止”，C项意为“保护”，D 项意为“期待”。做这类题，如果不认识所有单词，可以通过上下文来推测，上文提到“监督人必须不断地研究自己所在的领域才能承担其所有的责任”，推测这样做的目的是“了解这一领域的情况，避免市场’的变化带来的冲击”，因为“市场的变化”是一种不利因素，是需要避免的，故排除A、C两项。而仅靠“了解所在领域的情况”是不可能 “阻止”市场变化的，也排除B项。
Text 3
阅读赏析
本文首先以比尔·盖茨为例来对现在风靡世界的MBA(工商管理学硕士)的价值表示质疑，紧接着讨论了人们对MBA的看法，指出MBA实际上只是一个拥有未来财富的形象，而其重要性和实用性却并不大，获得 MBA的人往往会做理论分析，而不善于利用和处理公司中的人际关系。 MBA人才欠缺的正是与人打交道和激励人的本领。
答案及解析
46.A
【命题目的】此题考查考生推断作者观点态度的能力。
【解题要点】第二段中“lowly commerce”和“greed”有明显的轻视意味。A项意为“轻蔑的”，B项意为“赞赏的”，c项意为“嫉妒的”，D 项意为“现实的”。
47.B
【命题目的】此题考查对文章信息的捕捉。
【解题要点】第一段提到“亿万富翁和微软主席比尔·盖茨，没有任何大学学历，通过其成功引起人们对商界所喜爱的MBA学术头衔的价值的新的怀疑”，第五段更明确地指出“比尔·盖茨及其他非MBA人士的成功，激起了人们对商校学位价值的自省式的争论”，恰和B 项吻合。
48.D
【命题目的】此题考查对文章信息的理解。
【解题要点】第六段谈到“MBA人想很快提升，他们不懂政治，不懂人事，他们直到3年后才能与集体协作，可那时，他们已转向其他工作了”，即“MBA人不善于处理人际关系”。A项有可能是“不善于处理人际关系”的原因，但原文没有明确提出，因而不选，而B、c两项文中未提及，因而也不选。
49.D
【命题目的】此题考查对文章信息的捕捉。
【解题要点】此题最好用排除法，文中均未提过ABC三项的说法，而 D项则在第七段可找到相似说法。“The problem…is that the MBA has acquired an image of future riches and power far beyond its actual importance and usefulness”，即“问题在于…MBA已被套上了一圈光 环，其对未来权力及富裕的期望远远超出了它自身实际的重要性和 用途。”
50.C
【命题目的】此题考查学生综合概括中心思想的能力。
【解题要点】A项“为什么MBA项目要招生”，是无关项。8项“改革 MBA项目的必要性”，说得过于肯定，文中意见尚未到达论证“必须 改革”的地步。D项“在大学校园上展开的一场辩论”，说得过于泛 泛。文章从头至尾围绕一个主题“doubts or debates over the worth of MBA”。
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