MBA英语阅读习题和答案(三)

MBA

英语阅读习题和答案（三）

When your parents advise you to “get an

education”

in

order

to

raise

your

income,they

tell

you

only

half

the

they

really

mean

is

to

get

just

enough education to provide manpower for your

society,but

not

so

much

that

you

prove

an

embarrassment

to your society.

Get a high school diploma,at t

that,you will be occupationally dead unless your name

happens to be George Bernard Shaw or Thomas Alva

Edison,and you can successfully dropout in grade

school.

Get

a

college

degree,if

a

B.A.,you

are on the launching now you have to start to

put

on

the

you

go

for

a

master’s

degree,make

sure it is an M.B.A.,and is famous law of diminishing

returns begins to take effect.

Do you know,for instance,that long- haul truck

drivers

earn

more

per

year

than

full

professors?Yes,the

average 1977 salary for those truckers was $$24000.

While

the

full

professors

managed

to

earn

just

$$23030.

A

Ph.D.

is

the

highest

degree

you

can

for a few specialized fields such as physics or

chemistry where the degree can quickly be turned to

industrial or commercial purposes,if you pursue such

a

degree

in

any

other

field,you

will

face

a

dim

future.

there are more Ph.D.s unemloyed or underemployed in

this country than any other part of the world.

If you become a doctor of philosophy in English

or history or anthropology or political science or

languages or-worst of all-in philosophy,you run the

risk of becoming overeducated for our national

for

our

needs,mind

you,but

for

our

demands.

Thousands of Ph.D.s are selling shoes,driving

cars,waiting on table,and endlessly filling out

applications

month

after

may

also

take

a

job

in

some

high

school

or

backwater

college

that

pays

much

less than the janitor earns.

You

can

equate

the

level

of

income

with

the

level

of

education

only

so

enough,that

is,to

make

you

useful

to

the

gross

national

product,but

not

so

far

that

nobody can turn much of a profit on you.

1. According to the writer,what the society

expects of education is to turn out people who _____.

[A] will not be a disgrace to society

[B] will become loyal citizens

[C] can take care of themselves

[D] can meet the nation’s demands as a source

of manpower

2. Many Ph.D.s are out of job because _____.

[A] they are improperly educated

[B]

they

are

of

little

commercial

value

to

their

society

[C] there are fewer jobs in high schools

[D]

they

prefer

easier

jobs

that

make

more

money

3.

The

nation

is

only

interested

in

people

_____.

[A] with diplomas

[B] who specialize in physics and chemistry

[C] who are valuable to the gross national

product

[D] both A and C

4. Which of the following is not true?

[A]

Bernard

Shaw

didn’t

finish

high

schools,n

or

did Edison.

[B] One must think carefully before pursuing a

master degree.

[C] The higher your education level,the more

money you will earn.

[D] If you are too well-

educated,you’ll be

overeducated for society’s demands.

5. The writer sees education as _____.

[A] a means of providing job security and

financial

security

and

a

means

of

meeting

a

country’s

demands for technical workers

[B] a way to broaden one’s horizons

[C] more important than finding a job

[D] an opportunity that everyone should have

参考答案：

D B C C A

The London Stock Exchange

has

been

famous

as

a

place

for

men

only,

and

women

used

to be strictly forbidden to enter. But the world is

changing

day

by

day,

and

even

the

Stock

Exchange,

which

seemed to be a men’s castle, i

s gradually opening its

doors to the other sex. On 16th November 1971, a great

decision was taken. The Stock Exchange Council (the

body of men that administers the Stock Exchange )

decided that women should be allowed onto the new

trading

floor

when

it

ope

ned

in

1973.

But

the

“castle”

had not been completely conquered. The first girls to

work

in

“The

House”

were

not

brokers

or

jobbers.

They

were

neither

allowed

to

become

partners

in

stockbroking

firms,

nor

to

be

authorized

dealers

in

stocks

and

shares.

They

were

simply

junior

clerks

and

telephone

operators.

Women have been trying to get into the Stock

Exchange

for

many

years.

Several

votes

have

been

taken

in “The House” to see whether the members would be

willing

to

allow

women

to

become

members,

but

the

answer

has

always

been

“No”.

There

have

been

three

refusals

of this kind since 1967. Now women are admitted,

although

in

a

very

junior

capacity.

Two

forms

of

jobbers

made an application to the Stock Exchange Council to

be allowed to employ girl clerks. Permission was

finally

given.

A

member

of

the

Stock

Exchange

explained,

after

this

news

had

been

given,

“The

new

floor

is

going

to be different from the old one. All the jobbers will

have their own stands, with space for a telephone and

typewriters, Therefore there will have to be typists

and

telephone

operators.

So

women

must

be

allowed

in.”

This decision did not mean a very great victory in the

war for equal rights for women. However, it was a step

in

the

right

direction.

The

Chairman

of

the

new

building

will

eventually

lead

to

women

being

allowed

to

have

full

membership of the Stock Exchange. It is only a matter

of time; it must happen.

London Stock Exchange is famous____.

its favorable location

its policy of opening its doors to women

e it has been a place for men only

e women are now beginning to enter its

doors to work

l votes have been taken in “The

House”____.

see

if

women

were

willing

to

become

members

decide when women would be allowed into

“The House”

find out whether the members were willing

to allow women to become members

decide when to allow women onto the new

trading floor

of the following is true?

1973

women

have

been

allowed

to

work

with

the London Stock Exchange.

have always been refused participation

in stock trading.

were never officially allowed to enter

the Stock Exchange.

have been trying to get into the Stock

Exchange.

is this article about?

’s place in society.

the London Stock Exchange functioned in

1971.

women have been struggling for full

membership of the Stock Exchange.

women

were

gradually

allowed

to

work

in

the

Stock Exchange.

参考答案：

C

C

A

D

In

science

the

meaning

of

the

word “explain” suffers with civilization’s every

step in search of e can not really

explain electricity,magnetism,and gravition;their

effects can be measured and predicted,but of their

nature no more is known to the modern scientist than

to Thales who first looked into the nature of the

electrification of physicists reject the notion that

man can ever discover what these mysterious forces

“really” are. Electricity, Bertrand Russell says,is

not a thing,like ’

s Cathedral;it is a way in

which

things

we

have

told

how

things

behave

when

thry

are

electrified,and

under

what

circumstances

they are electrified,we have told all there is to

recently scientists would have disapproved

of such an tle,for example,whose natural

science dominated Western thought for two thousand

years,believed that man could arrive at an

understanding of reality by reasoning from

self-evident felt,for example,that it is

a self-evident principle that everything in the

universe

has

its

proper

place,hence

one

can

deduce

that

objects fall to the groud because that’s where they

belong,and smoke goes up because that’s where it

goal

of

Aristotelian

science

was

to

explain

why

things

science

was

born

when

Galileo

began trying to explain how things happen and thus

originated the method of controlled experiment which