2003年09月大学英语六级(CET-6)真题-中大网校

1、中大网校引领成功职业人生 2003年09月大学英语六级(CET-6)真题总分：100分 及格：60分 考试时间：120分Part II Reading Comprehension (35 minutes)(1)QuestionsTSEare based on the following passage. In 1985 when a Japan Air Lines （JAL） jet crashed, its president, Yasumoto Takagi, called each victims family to apologize, and then promptly resigned. And in 1987, when a subsidiary of Toshiba sole sensitive military technology to the former Soviet Union, the chairman of Toshiba gave up his post. These executive actions, which Toshiba calls “the

2、 highest form of apology,” may seem bizarre to US managers. No one at Boeing resigned after the JAL crash, which may have been caused by a faulty Boeing repair. The difference between the two business cultures centers around different definitions of delegation. While US executives give both responsibility and authority to their employees, Japanese executives delegate only authoritythe responsibility is still theirs. Although the subsidiary that sold the sensitive technology to the Soviets had it

3、s own management, the Toshiba top executives said they “must take personal responsibility for not creating an atmosphere throughout the Toshiba group that would make such activity unthinkable, even in an independently run subsidiary.” Such acceptance of community responsibility is not unique to businesses in Japan. School principals in Japan have resigned when their students committed major crimes after school hours. Even if they do not quit, Japanese executives will often accept primary respons

4、ibility in other ways, such as taking the first pay cut when a company gets into financial trouble. Such personal sacrifices, even if they are largely symbolic, help to create the sense of community and employee loyalty that is crucial to the Japanese way of doing business. Harvard Business School professor (2)According to the passage if you want to be a good manager in Japan, you have to _.A. apologizepromptlyforyoursubordinatesmistakesB. beskillfulinacceptingblamesfromcustomersC. makesymbo

5、licsacrificeswhenevernecessaryD. createastrongsenseofcompanyloyalty(3)Whats Professor George Lodges attitude towards the resignations of Japanese corporate leaders?A. SympathetiB. BiaseC. CriticaD. Approvin(4)Which of the following statements is TRUE?A. BoeinghadnothingtodowiththeJALaircrashin1985.B. AmericanexecutivesconsiderauthorityandresponsibilityinseparablC. SchoolprincipalsbearlegalresponsibilityforstudentscrimeD. Persuadingemployeestotakepaycutsdoesnthelpsolvecorporatecrise(5)The passage

6、 is mainly about _.A. resignationasaneffectivewayofdealingwithbusinesscrisesB. theimportanceofdelegatingresponsibilitytoemployeesC. waysofevadingresponsibilityintimesofcrisesD. thedifferencebetweentwobusinesscultures(6)QuestionsTSEare based on the following passage. As machines go, the car is not terribly noisy, nor terribly polluting, nor terribly dangerous; and on all those dimensions it has become better as the century has grown older. The main problem is its prevalence, and the social costs

7、that ensue from the use by everyone of something that would be fairly harmless if, say, only the rich were to use it. It is a price we pay for equality. Before becoming too gloomy, it is worth recalling why the car has been arguably the most successful and popular product of the whole of the past 100 yearsand remains so. The story begins with the environmental improvement it brought in the 1900s. In New York city in 1900, according to the Car Culture, a 1975 book by J. Flink, a historian, horses

8、 deposited 2.5 million pounds of manure （粪） and 60,000 gallons of urine （尿） every day. Every year, the city authorities had to remove an average of 15,000 dead horses from the streets, it made cars smell of roses. Cars were also wonderfully flexible. The main earlier solution to horse pollution and traffic jams was the electric trolley bus （电车）. But that required fixed overhead wires, and rails and platforms, which were expensive, ugly, and inflexible. The car could go from any A to any B, and allowed towns to develop in all directions with low-density housing, rather than just being concentrated along the trolley or rail lines. Rural areas benefited too, for they became less remote. However, since pollution became a concern in the 1950s, experts have predictedwronglythat the car boom was about to end. In

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