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1 Men lie; women lie.Husbands lie, friends lie, wives lie, and believe it or not, your mother might lie.A recent study showed that 91% of all people lie on a regular basis, and people tell at least 13 major lies a week.
Dr.Robert G.Newby, a professor of sociology , believes that men are more likely to tell lies than women."Men are more concerned about how they present themselves in public, the impression they make on people and things like that," he says."And they want to make sure that their presentation of self is one that makes them look good. 2 ”
Women, on the other hand, Dr.Newby believes, are more private people and their relationship tends to be more interpersonal, as opposed to having to put on a public face.Women are more easily hurt and they are not as likely to try to cheat like men.
Psychotherapist Vesta Callender also agrees that men and women do lie differently." 3 They plan better," Callender notes. "They create a history around the lie, and they try to project into the future what might happen if the lie is detected. With a woman, a lie has a beginning, a middle and an end. " Callender believes that men tend to lie for the moment or to get out of a situation. 4
Dr Elmore stresses that while it is true that most people lie from time to time, one should be truthful.
" 5 Everything that is true does not need to be said, but everything said needs to be true," he says.
A.Be truthful at any cost. |
B.Men also lie to each other. |
C.Everyone lies from time to time. |
D.Women are much more careful in their lies. |
As anyone who has tried to lose weight knows, realistic goal-setting generally produces the best results. That’s partly because most people who set realistic goals actually work more efficiently, and put more effort, to achieve those goals.
What’s far less understood by scientists, however, are the potentially harmful effects of goal-setting. Newspapers convey daily accounts of goal-setting widespread in industries and businesses up and down both Wall Street and Main Street, yet there has been surprisingly little research on how the long-advocated practice of setting goals may have contributed to the current economic crisis, and immoral behavior in general.
“Goals are widely used and promoted as having really beneficial effects. And yet, the same motivation that can push people to put more effort in a constructive way could also motivate people to be more likely to engage in immoral behaviors,” says Maurice Schweitzer, an associate professor at Penn’s Wharton School. His paper, titled “Goals Gone Wild: The Systematic Side Effects of Over-Praised Goal Setting,” appears in the February issue of the Academy of Management Perspectives.
“It turns out there’s no financial benefit to just having a goal---you just get a psychological benefit” Schweitzer says. “But in many cases, goals have financial rewards that make them more powerful.”
A major example Schweitzer and his colleagues give is the 2004 breakdown of energy-trading giant Enron( 德國安然公司), where managers used financial rewards to motivate salesmen to meet specific goals. The problem, Schweitzer says, is that the actual trades were not profitable.
Other studies have shown that burdening employees with unrealistic goals can force them to lie, cheat or steal. Such was the case in the early 1990s when Sears(西爾斯公司)placed a sales quota (銷售限額) on its auto repair staff. It inspired employees to overcharge for work and to complete unnecessary repairs on a companywide basis.
Schweitzer admits his research runs counter to a very large body of literature that praises the many benefits of goal-setting. Advocates of the practice have argued with his team’s use of such evidence as news accounts to support his conclusion that goal-setting is widely over-praised.
In a rebuttal (反駁) paper, Dr. Edwin Locke writes: “Goal-setting is not going away. Organizations cannot grow without being focused on their desired end results any more than an individual can grow without goals to provide a sense of purpose.”
But Schweitzer argues the “evidence” linking goal-setting and harmful behavior should be studied to help draw attention to issues that deserve attention and further investigation. “Even a few negative effects could be so large that they outweigh many positive effects,” he says.
The debate is likely to get heated on in future papers, and the practice of setting goals no doubt will continue. For now, though, the lesson seems to be to put more thought into setting goals.
“Goal-setting does help motivate people. My idea would be to combine that with careful management, a strong organizational culture, and make sure the goals that you use are going to be constructive and not significantly harmful to the organization,” Schweitzer says.
【小題1】What does Maurice Schweitzer want to show by mentioning the example of Enron?
A.Setting realistic goals can turn a failing business into success. |
B.Businesses are likely to succeed without realistic goals. |
C.Companies are certain to meet specific goals with financial rewards. |
D.Goals with financial rewards have strong motivational power. |
A.They had to work more hours to increase their sales. |
B.They competed with one another to attract more customers. |
C.They turned to immoral practice to reach their goals. |
D.They improved their customer service on a companywide basis. |
A.a(chǎn)grees with | B.goes against | C.fits in with | D.a(chǎn)pplies to |
A.The practice of setting goals only helps people to develop. |
B.Goal-setting is of no use motivating people to accomplish their tasks. |
C.The positive effects of goal-setting outweigh its negative effects. |
D.Studying goal-setting can contribute to successful business practices. |
A.the goals that most people set are unrealistic. |
B.a(chǎn)ll people can improve their work quality by setting goals. |
C.setting goals can provide people with a sense of purpose. |
D.people should not ignore the negative effects of goal-setting. |
You're busy filling out the application form for a position you really need. Let's assume you once actually completed a couple of years of college work or even that you completed your degree. Isn't it appealing to lie just a little, to claim on the form that your diploma represents a Harvard degree? Or that you finished an extra couple of years back at State University? More and more people are turning to cheat like this to land their job or to move ahead in their careers, for personnel officers, like most Americans, value degrees from famous schools. A job applicant may have a good education anyway, but he or she assumes that chances of being hired are better with a diploma from a well-known university.
Registrars(登記員) at most well-known colleges say they deal with deceitful claims like these at the rate of about one per week. Personnel officers do check up on degrees listed on application forms, then. If it turns out that an applicant is lying, most colleges are unwilling to accuse the applicant directly. One Ivy League school calls them "cheats"; another refers to them as "special cases". One well-known West Coast school, in perhaps the most delicate phrase of all, says that these claims are made by "no such people". To avoid outright(徹底的) lies, some job-seekers claim that they "attending" means being dismissed after one semester. It may be that "being associated with" a college means that the job-seeker visited his younger brother for a football weekend. One school that keeps records of false claims says that the practice dates back at least to the turn of the century—that's when they began keeping records, anyhow. If you don't want to lie or even stretch the truth, there are companies that will sell you a false diploma.
One company, with offices in New York and on the West Coast, will put your name on a diploma from any number of nonexistent colleges. The price begins at around twenty dollars for a diploma from "Smoot State University". The prices increase rapidly for a degree from the "University of Purdue". As there is no Smoot State and the real school in Indiana is properly called Purdue University, the prices seem rather high for one sheet of paper.
The main idea of this passage is that ______.
A. employers are checking more closely on applicants now
B. lying about college degrees has become a widespread problem
C. college degrees can now be purchased easily
D. employers are no longer interested in college degrees
According to the passage, "special cases" refers to cases that ______.
A. students attend a school only part-time
B. students never attended a school they listed on their application
C. students purchase false degrees from commercial firms
D. students attended a famous school
We can infer from the passage that _______.
A. performance is a better judge of ability than a college degree
B. experience is the best teacher
C. past work histories influence personnel officers more than degrees do
D. a degree from a famous school enables an applicant to gain advantage over others in job competition
This passage implies that ______.
A. buying a false degree is not moral
B. personnel officers only consider applicants from famous schools
C. most people lie on applications because they were dismissed from school
D. society should be greatly responsible for lying on applications
You're busy filling out the application form for a position you really need. Let's assume you once actually completed a couple of years of college work or even that you completed your degree. Isn't it appealing to lie just a little, to claim on the form that your diploma represents a Harvard degree? Or that you finished an extra couple of years back at State University? More and more people are turning to cheat like this to land their job or to move ahead in their careers, for personnel officers, like most Americans, value degrees from famous schools. A job applicant may have a good education anyway, but he or she assumes that chances of being hired are better with a diploma from a well-known university.
Registrars(登記員) at most well-known colleges say they deal with deceitful claims like these at the rate of about one per week. Personnel officers do check up on degrees listed on application forms, then. If it turns out that an applicant is lying, most colleges are unwilling to accuse the applicant directly. One Ivy League school calls them "cheats"; another refers to them as "special cases". One well-known West Coast school, in perhaps the most delicate phrase of all, says that these claims are made by "no such people". To avoid outright(徹底的) lies, some job-seekers claim that they "attending" means being dismissed after one semester. It may be that "being associated with" a college means that the job-seeker visited his younger brother for a football weekend. One school that keeps records of false claims says that the practice dates back at least to the turn of the century—that's when they began keeping records, anyhow. If you don't want to lie or even stretch the truth, there are companies that will sell you a false diploma.
One company, with offices in New York and on the West Coast, will put your name on a diploma from any number of nonexistent colleges. The price begins at around twenty dollars for a diploma from "Smoot State University". The prices increase rapidly for a degree from the "University of Purdue". As there is no Smoot State and the real school in Indiana is properly called Purdue University, the prices seem rather high for one sheet of paper.
【小題1】The main idea of this passage is that ______.
A.employers are checking more closely on applicants now |
B.lying about college degrees has become a widespread problem |
C.college degrees can now be purchased easily |
D.employers are no longer interested in college degrees |
A.students attend a school only part-time |
B.students never attended a school they listed on their application |
C.students purchase false degrees from commercial firms |
D.students attended a famous school |
A.performance is a better judge of ability than a college degree |
B.experience is the best teacher |
C.past work histories influence personnel officers more than degrees do |
D.a(chǎn) degree from a famous school enables an applicant to gain advantage over others in job competition |
A.buying a false degree is not moral |
B.personnel officers only consider applicants from famous schools |
C.most people lie on applications because they were dismissed from school |
D.society should be greatly responsible for lying on applications |
1. B:作者不是從其他運動,而是從沖浪運動中獲得(get)了無止境的挑戰(zhàn)的體會。再則,前文The feeling I get when I'm surfing across that water,becoming one with the ocean也有暗示。take from減少,降低;get from從……得到;make from由……制造; keep from阻止,隱瞞,抑制。
2. C你永遠也不會是最好的沖浪手,因為大洋呈現(xiàn)、提供(offer)的是任何人都控制不了的、數(shù)不盡的、各種各樣的海浪。catch抓住,捕獲;include包括,包含;offer提供;collect收集,聚集。
3. A有些沖浪手自由自在、嫻熟流暢,有些沖浪手則活躍有力、生機勃勃。注意這兩個句子的并列關(guān)系,應該特別注意free 和 flowing之間詞義的順承和協(xié)調(diào)"自由而流暢",后句的aggressive and__3__也應該是這樣一種意義聯(lián)系,故選擇A,sharp可以表示"精明敏捷的,迅速活潑,有力有為"意思,其它三項在意義上與aggressive的順承和協(xié)調(diào)相距甚遠。
4. D所有的這些都在吸引著我去沖浪,并使之不同于(different)其他運動。注意此段第一句The one thing I can get from surfing and not any other sport is endless challenge.也有所暗示。(be)different from和……不同。(be)far from遠離,遠非;known和right通常不與from搭配。
5. B我盡力(try)地勸我所認識的每一個女孩去做人們認為女孩不能做的事情。choose選擇、挑選;try試圖、努力;learn學習;promise答應、許諾。
6. A朝著新的水平(level)不斷前進是人類活動的組成部分。level水平,水準,標準,級別;point 點,尖端;step步調(diào),步伐,步驟,措施;part 部分,局部。
7. C所以女孩子們難道不應當拾級而上,開始沖破(push)男人們過去主宰的事物的極限嗎?reach到達,伸出;accept 接受,認可;push突出,突破攻擊;set 放置,樹立,調(diào)整。
8. D在我們國家有女性和總統(tǒng)不僅僅一起坐(sit),步行(walk),戰(zhàn)斗(fight),而且并肩工作(work)著。同時注意句子的一般現(xiàn)在時意義特征,表示經(jīng)常性的行為。
9. C所以為什么女孩子不能夠肩并肩地與男孩子一起踢足球,外出一起沖浪呢?介詞on表示"在……供職"、"(是)……的成員",on the football team的意思是"是/成為足球隊隊員"。
10. B給女孩子一個獲得成功(succeed)的機會,讓她們思考(think),感覺(feel)表演(perform),她們就都會有所成就。
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