商务英语（中级）试卷及参考答案(2)

37. A. regard B. respect C. view D. term

38. A. not later than B. later than C. no more than D. none later than 39. A. call B. reject C. refuse D. cancel 40. A. grateful B. thankful C. appreciated D. obliged Section C

Directions: There are two passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C, and D. You should decide on the best choice. This section totals 20 points, two points for each question. Questions 41 to 50 are based on the following passage. 1 Ivester, a factory foreman’s son and former accountant, stepped in smoothly to run Coca-Cola as CEO following the death of champion wealth creator Roberto Goizueta. Early in his job as Coke’s chief, Goizueta had recognized Ivester’s drive, commenting that he was the hardest-working man he had ever met. Together the two changed the company’s operations and capital structure to maximize shareholder value. 2 Both of Ivester’s parents were factory workers from a tiny mill town in Georgia. His parents were children of the depression, he recalls, ‘strong savers, very strong religious values,’ and had very high expectations for their only son. If he got an A, his father would say, ‘They give A pluses, don’t they?’ 3 Dough Ivester is the guy who for nearly two years worked constantly to provide essential support to Roberto Goizueta as he not only turned Coca-Cola around but made it into a powerhouse. If you want to know just how driven Ivester is, know that more than a decade ago he set himself the goal of becoming the CEO and chairman of Coca-Cola. Then he put on paper the dates by which he intended to do that. 4 By comparison with Goizueta, Ivester is an accountant by training, an introvert by nature. He worked systematically to obtain the breadth needed to be a modern chief executive – getting media coaching and spending three year’s worth of Saturdays, six hours at a time, being tutored in marketing. 5 He is big on discipline, which to him means: be where you’re supposed to be. Dress the part (he is opposed to casual Fridays). Return phone calls promptly (employees know never to get too far away from their office voice-mail, even on weekends). Still, when directing his troops, he asks them to set ‘aspirations’ (difficult targets). 6 Hierarchy is out – it slows everything down; he communicates freely with people at all levels. The ‘conventional’ desk job is also out. Ivester prefers that employees think of themselves as knowledge workers – their office is the information they carry around with them, supported by technology that allows them to work anywhere. This really matters when your business is as large as Coke’s, which gets 80% of its profit from overseas. 第5页 （共12页） …… 此处隐藏：767字，全部文档内容请下载后查看。喜欢就下载吧 ……