新视野大学英语读写译(第三版)第二册课后习题答案7

Because she was pleasantly surprised that female bosses are much more accessible to their employees and much more sensitive and intimate with their employees.

Because there are still some people, both men and women, who report that they have a low tolerance for female bosses.

Her working style is more flexible, understanding, willing to give power to others and seek consensus, and more team-oriented.

Studies suggest that men are typically hierarchical, goal-oriented and feel entitled. Women, by contrast, manage diplomatically and share power.

While women may feel more comfortable with a female boss, men often have to spend a long time making concessions to the new working styles. This example shows the conflicting male-female working styles, their entirely different ways of thinking, and their opposite attitudes toward the same situations. Because she thinks that it stems from the whole social context of traditional roles for men and women. Men are more authoritative than women, thus demanding more power than women. Though a few decades ago there were fewer female bosses in leading

positions, women could now be perceived to work together with men to create the best management style. Men: strong, tough, stubborn, direct, hierarchical, distant, cold, impatient, rough, goal-oriented, rational, decisive, top-down.

Women: flexible, understanding, patient, detailed, warm, careful, considerate, indecisive, diplomatic, feeling-based, bottom-up.

Men's: more direct and decisive.

Women's: more accessible and reasonable.

Be nice and gentle.

Try best to accomplish assigned tasks.

Get her confirmation before taking any action.

Listen rather than speak. Be assertive but rational.

Be a good listener.

Compromise when necessary.

Be more patient and considerate.

Share thoughts and opinions. Will definitely play an indispensable role.

Will possibly outweigh men in leadership.

Will probably become tougher than before.

Will still face challenges and gender barriers

. It was essential to (harness) science and technology, not just for the

economy but for environmental protection as well.

2. Language is the (symbolic) representation of a people, and it

combines their historical and cultural backgrounds, as well as their

approach to life.

3. Because of the effective and helpful method, I was (disposed) to

answer all the questions I could, and I never worried about making

mistakes.

4. It can be inferred from the passage that the commercial prosperity in

Cambridge is due to hi-tech IT companies whose business has been

(flourishing) .

5. You will need to prove that the noise (violated) the regulations, that

your neighbor was causing the noise, and that you attempted to have him stop. 6. Most universities will guarantee your (accommodation) , at least during

your first year, but you are likely to share a kitchen and bathroom with other students.

7. We may (infer) from the report that hackers from outside of the

company present a more serious threat to their security systems.

8. She frowned at the business report, making an effort to (compose)

herself before she talked to the employees at the upcoming meeting. 9. A crucial factor is that one witness' evidence, though (plausible) , may

be rejected because it is contradicted by another witness whose evidence is already proved correct.

10. Windsor Middle School has been famous for zero (tolerance) to

violence and emphasis on respect for its students and rules.

fatal horizontal

mechanical

occasional

proportional

logic

denial

commerce

relativity

priority

continuity / continual

actuality

1. In (actuality) , it was the poor peasants and blue-collar workers who

complained louder about and suffered more from the current tax policy. 2. The purchase insurance covers (mechanical) breakdown for one year,

which is stated in the insurance policy form.

3. The salesperson's emotional state will influence the customer, and the

customer's buying decisions are first emotional and then are justified with (logic) .

4. I don't appreciate his reply as it was in part a(n)

and in part an attempt to change the issue.

5. (Occasional) gunshots can still be heard in the district though no one (denial) of the criticism

seems to know who fires the guns and if anyone is hit.

6. The boss was undecided as to what to do since his decisions can have

severe and

company.

7. Mike is well over 40 now and is much worried about how to maintain

(continuity) between his youthful past and his middle-aged present.

8. All notions about the well-known theory of (relativity) seem to have (fatal) consequences to all the employees and the

been coming from Einstein's general theory of relativity.

9. Social fund officers are expected to give high (priority) to requests for

loans for the repairs in public places like schools.

10. With the increase of (commerce) in the 21st century, investment in money rather than in land has become the most convenient and popular form.

11. The insurance fee charged by the company is directly (proportional) to

the compensation its clients try to claim from their cases.

12. As construction progresses, workers check (horizontal) and vertical

levels to ensure that both walls are exactly up to the design requirements.

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