Question

【題目】閱讀下面四篇短文，從每題所給的A、B、C、D四個選項中選出最佳選項。
C
Ricardo Semler became the boss of his father's company in Brazil at the age of 21. The name of the company is Semco. It sold parts for ships. Semler worked like a mad man, from 7:30 in the morning to midnight every day. One afternoon, while he was visiting a factory in New York, he fell down. The doctor said, “ There's nothing wrong with you. But if you continue like this, you'll find a new home in our hospital.” Semler got the message. He changed the way he worked. In fact, he changed the ways his workers worked, too.
At the same time, Semler changed the office. Instead of walls, they have plants at Semco, so the boss can't shut himself away from everyone else. And the workers are free to decorate their workplace as they want. As for uniforms, some people wear suits and others wear T-shirts.
Semco has flexible working hours: the workers can decide when they need to arrive at work. Also, Semco lets its workers use the company's machines for their own projects, and makes them take holidays for at least thirty days a year.
It sounds perfect, but does it work? The answer is in the numbers: in the last six years, Semco's revenues (收益) have gone from $35 million to $212 million. The company has grown from 800 workers to 3,000. Why?
Semler says it's because of “peer pressure” (同輩壓力). Peer pressure makes workers work hard. It means if someone isn't doing his job well, the other workers will not allow the situation to continue. In other words, Semler treat his workers like adults rather than children, and expects them to act like responsible (負責(zé)任的) adults. And they do.
（1）Why did Semler change the ways he and his workers worked?
A.Because he became mad.
B.Because he had to stay in hospital.
C.Because his father asked him to do.
D.Because he realized the danger of overwork.
（2）What does the underlined word “ flexible” probably mean in Chinese?
A.靈活的
B.短暫的
C.漫長的
D.固定的
（3）What does the underlined word “they” in the last paragraph refer to?
A.Adults.
B.Semler's workers.
C.The bosses.
D.Semco's revenues.
（4）In Paragraph 4, the writer mainly wants to tell us .
A.the company made a lot of money
B.the reason for Ricardo Semler's success
C.Ricardo Semler's idea sounded perfect but it didn't work
D.Ricardo Semler's method of running the company was successful

Answer 1

【答案】
（1）D
（2）A
（3）B
（4）D
【解析】本篇文章講述了Ricardo Semler的故事。他在接手父親的公司后，拼命工作，結(jié)果身體一度垮掉。于是他改變了自己的管理方式，給了員工更多的自由，也使他們有了更多的責(zé)任意識，培養(yǎng)了他們負責(zé)的態(tài)度，由此公司無論從規(guī)模上，還是效益上都有了顯著的增長。
⑴推理判斷。根據(jù)文章首段內(nèi)容可知Semler 因工作過度而身體一度垮掉，于是他接受了醫(yī)生的警告“got the message. He changed the way he worked. In fact，he changed the ways his employees worked too.”，從而改變了自己以及員工的工作方式。所以答案選D。
⑵詞義猜測。根據(jù)冒號后面的解釋 the workers can decide when they need to arrive at work員工可以決定他們到崗的時間。所以flexible的意思是“靈活的”，故選A。
⑶詞義猜測。根據(jù)前文的描述：Semler對待工人像大人而非小孩，期望他們像負責(zé)任的成人那樣做事，他們做到了。所以they指的是他的員工們，故選B
⑷段落大意。本段開頭提出中心問題but does it work? ，然后用公司收入和員工人數(shù)增長的數(shù)字進行說明，由此可知本段內(nèi)容是講述他管理模式的成功，答案選D