Which of the following is true according to the passage?
A greater percentage of women are advancing professionally in the U.S. than previously.
B. Professional men refuse to accompany their female colleagues on business trip.
C. Each year there are more female tourists in the United States.
D. Businesswomen become successful by showing a willingness to travel alone.
How have electronic links benefited professionals and managers?
A. They can establish links with their business associates.
B. They do not have to make any business trips.
C. They do not have to work in their offices anymore.
D. They can improve their work efficiency.
PART C
Directions: You will hear three dialogues or monologues. Before listening to each one, you will have 5 seconds to read each of the questions which accompany it. While listening, answer each question by choosing A, B, C or D. After listening, you will have 10 seconds to check your answer to each question. You will hear each piece ONLY ONCE.
听力原文:M: Office systems are equipment used to create, store, process, or communicate information in a business environment. This information can be manually, electrically, or electronically produced, duplicated, and transmitted.
The rapid growth of the service sector of the world economy beginning in the mid-1970s has furnished a new market for sophisticated office automation.
Most modem office equipment, including typewriters, dictation equipment, facsimile machines, photocopiers, calculators, and telephone systems as well, contains a microprocessor. With the increasing incorporation of microchips into office equipment, the line between the computer and other equipment has blurred.
At the same time, computers, either stand-alone or as part of a network, and specialized software programs are taking over tasks such as facsimile transmission or fax, voice mail, and telecommunications that were once performed by separate pieces of equipment. In fact, the computer has virtually taken the place of typewriters, calculators, and manual accounting techniques and is rapidly talking over graphic design, production scheduling, and engineering design.
The use of computers and other modem equipment has enabled links to be established far beyond the walls of a building. Electronic links allow people in a modem office to communicate with workers at home or in satellite offices. This capability has led to a sharp increase in telecommuting. Since the early 1990s workers have worked at least part of the time outside the main office. Managers and professional employees are the major participants in this trend. As they no longer have to spend hours traveling from home to office, their work productivity has increased.
As technology advances further, new equipment will be invented and introduced into the modem office, which will result in even greater efficiency in office work.
What do office systems refer to according to the passage?
A. Computerized equipment used in a business environment in a modem office.
B. Equipment used to create, store, process, or communicate information in a business environment.
C. Equipment used in satellite offices.
D. Equipment used to create a web page and download information from the Internet in a business or non-business environment.
A hundred years ago, pioneer psychologist William James declared that humans use only a
【21】______ part of their potential. All too many of tasks are 【22】______ or tedious. Then the 【23】______ operates almost on idle. The result can be 【24】______ mistakes or dragged-out drudgery because we can't get with it. The perfect state of flow, Csikszentmihalyi explains, 【25】______ l when our skills exactly measure up to the challenges 【26】______ us. 【27】______ ,says Csikszentmihalyi, the way to get a dull but 【28】______ job done easily is to make it harder. Turn a boring task into a 【29】______ game, so than you 【30】______ all your potential. Invent rules, 【31】______ l goals, 【32】______ yourself against a clock. This increased challenge may be what 【33】______ you into your zone. I was once asked to write an 【34】______ to a 【35】______ l of articles on lawsuit. Words came slowly as I plugged away at a 【36】______ that didn't 【37】______ me. I made 【38】______ trips to the coffeepot. Then the magazine's art director phoned to say he'd created an eye-catching 【39】______ for the article. Could the first 【40】______ of the article begin with J?
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A. tiny
B. secondary
C. minimal
D. minimum