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Section B
Directions: There are 2 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.
Emotional intelligence skills are synergistic (起协同作用的) with cognitive ones: top performers have both. The more complex the job, the more emotional intelligence matters —if only because a deficiency in these abilities can hinder the use of whatever technical expertise or intellect a person may have. Take, for example, an executive who had just been brought in to run a＄ 65 million, family owned business, the first president from outside the family.
A researcher, using an interview method to assess the executive's ability to handle cognitive complexity, determined his capacity was the very highest a "level six," someone smart enough, theoretically, to be CEO of a global firm or head of a country. But during that interview the conversation turned to why he had to leave his previous job: He had been fired because he had failed to confront subordinates and hold them responsible for their poor performance.
"It was still an emotional trigger for him," the researcher told me. "His face got red and flushed, he started waving his hands —he was clearly agitated. It turned out that his new boss —the owner of the company —had criticized him that very morning for the same thing, and he went on and on about how hard it was for him to confront low-performing employees, especially when they had been with the company for a long time." And, the researcher noted, "While he was so upset his ability to handle cognitive complexity —to reason —plummeted (骤降)."
In short, out-of-control emotions can make smart people stupid. The aptitudes you need to succeed start with intellectual horsepower —but people need emotional competence, too, to get the full potential of their talents. The reason we don't get people's full potential is emotional incompetence.
This passage mainly discusses ______.
Stress and pressure-filled days have become an almost normal part of contemporary life, due to the ever-growing demands of careers, home maintenance, parenting responsibilities, and community involvement. Because of this, there is a general consensus that just doing all that daily needs to be done is an emotionally intense and complex process. In fact, a wit once commented, "Living these days is like a grammar lesson: the past is perfect; the present is tense."
Technology makes it more difficult to separate ourselves from work. In times past, it was possible to have a stressful workplace, go home, and relax. Since less work was mental and more was physical, it was relatively easy to remove oneself —physically and mentally —from it. The sophisticated communication technology available today was not yet developed. In contrast to the "good old days," it is no longer possible for busy men and women to go home or go on vacation and truly "get away from it all." It becomes difficult to relax when you are carrying a beeper that may go off any minute. The result is higher levels of stress in men and women because technology enables others to "find them anywhere."
It is ironic that much technology is designed to make work easier and faster; presumably, this will make life easier for those who must operate the technology, but such is not the case. Witness the prophetic words of the great philosopher John Stuart Mill (1806- 1873): "It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being." How true this is despite the promise of "miraculous" new machinery ranging from a "new and more efficient" vacuum cleaner to the most sophisticated computer. The solution to living well lies not in new and better technology, but in the selective disuse of it so that life can be enjoyed in a more emotionally fulfilling way.
This passage mainly discusses ______.
听力原文：M: These yellow gloves and those red ones seem about the same as far as quality is concerned. Is there any difference in price？
W: The yellow ones are ＄ 3.40 a pair, but the red ones are on sale today for ＄ 3.15. They were ＄ 3.60 a pair last week.
Q: How much will the man pay if he buys two pairs of red gloves？
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Scientists in general believe that croplands, forests, and grasslands will supply enough raw materials, food, and fuel to guarantee further economic growth in the years to come.
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