2015年12月英语六级听力原文及答案

2015

年

12

月英语 六级听力原文及答案：第一套短文

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Passage 1

Changing technology and markets have stimulated the team approach to management. Inflation, resource scarcity, reduced

personnel levels and budget cuts have all underscored the need for better coordination in organizations. Team management

provides for this coordination. Team management calls for new skills if personnel potential is to be fully realized. Although a

team

maybe

composed

of

knowledgeable

people,

they

must

learn

new

ways

of

relating

and

working

together

to

solve

cross- functional problems.

When

teams

consist

of

experienced

employees

from

hierarchical

organizations,

who

had

been

conditioned

to

traditional

organizational culture, cooperation may not occur naturally. It may need to be created.

Furthermore,

the

issue

is

not

just

how

the

team

can

function

more

effectively,

but

how

it

integrates

with

the

overall

organization or society it supposedly serves.

A group of individuals is not automatically a team. Therefore, teambuilding may b

e necessary in order to improve the group’s

performance.

Casey, an expert in this filed, suggests that the cooperation process within teams, must be organized, promoted and managed.

He believes that team cooperation results when members go beyond their individual capabilities, beyond what each is used to

being and doing. Together, the team may then produce something new, unique, and superior to that of any one member. For

this

to

happen,

he

suggests

that

the

multicultural

managers

exhibit

understandings

of

their

own

and

others’

cultural

influences and limitations. They should also cultivate such skills as toleration of ambiguity, persistence and patience, as well as

assertiveness.

If a team manager exemplifies such qualities, then the team as a whole would be better able to realize their potential and

achieve their objectives.

问题

+

答案：

16. What should team members do to fully realize their potential?

B) Follow closely the fast development of technology.

17. What needs to be considered for effective team management?

B) What type of personnel the team should be composed of.

18. What conclusion can we draw from what Casey says?

D) A team manager should develop a certain set skills.

Passage 2

In early 1994, when Marc Andreessen was just 23 years old, he arrived in Silicon Valley with an idea that would change the

world. As a student at the University of Illinois, he and his friends had developed a program called Mosaic, which allowed

people to share information on the worldwide web. Before Mosaic, the web had been used mainly by scientists and other

technical people, who were happy just to send and receive text. But web Mosaic, Andreessen and his friends, had developed a

program, which could send images over the web as well.

Mosaic was an overnight success. It wa

s put on the university’s network at the beginning of 1993, and by the end of the year,

it had over a million users. Soon after, Andreessen went to seek his fortune in Silicon Valley. Once he got there, he started to

have meetings with the man called Jim C

lark, who was one of the valley’s most famous entrepreneurs.

In 1994, nobody was making any real money from the Internet, which was still very slow and hard to use. But Andreessen had

seen an opportunity that would make him and Clark rich within 2 years. He suggested, they should create a new computer