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There is another problem with chasing the promotion fantasy. Many companies have a strong tendency to promote the best sales people. Convincing others to buy goods and services is a useful skill, requiring charm and persistence. But, as the authors point out, these are not the same capabilities as the strategic planning and administrative competence needed to lead a sales team
The research then looked at what happened after these super-salespeople were promoted Their previous sales performance was actually a negative indicator of managerial success.The sales growth of workers assigned to the star sellers was 7.5 percentage points lower than for those whose managers were previously weaker performers
The trick to avoiding this curse is to stick to what you like doing. If you enjoy teaching, don't be a headmaster or college principal. If you like writing articles and columns, editing other people’s work may not give the same degree of satisfaction.
Another problem with pursuing frequent promotions is that it turns you into a supplicant, endlessly in search of favourable feedback from the higher-ups. This can lead you to lose control of your work-life balance. In Charles Handy's new book, 21 Letters On Life And Its Challenges, the experienced management theorist recalls an insight when working for Royal Dutch Shell,an oil giant. \exchange for the promise of financial security and guaranteed work, I had sold my time to complete strangers with my permission for them to use that time for their own purpose,” he writes.
The higher up the ladder you go, the greater the demands are likely to be on your time.The chief executive will expect you to be available at weekends: after all, that is why you get paid the big bucks.
So that shiny promotion may not be for everyone. Beware the curse of overwork an/dissatisfaction. Some people like to devote their whole lives to their job and be at the centre of events. It is best to let them get on with it 58. What can we learn about\
A. People’s careers are easily spoiled by unrealistic expectations.
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B. There are to some degree certain ceilings in people's career paths C Incompetent employees tend to have more chances to gain promotions D People don't necessarily get promoted by virtue of their competence
59. Why is Charles Handy's new book 21 Letters On Life And Its Challenges mentioned? A. To put forward useful suggestions on how to get promoted B. To show how many challenges we face without getting promoted C. To illustrate the serious consequences of the pursuit of promotion D. To prove the economic security brought along by the promotion. 60. Which of the following might be the best title of this passage? A. The Promotion Satisfaction B. The Promotion Curse C The Promotion Strategies D. The Promotion Prospect
C.
In 2010,the planetary(行星的）
defence team at NASA had identified and logged 90 percent of the asteroids(小行星）near Earth measuring 1km wide. These\
size of mountains and include anything within 50 million kilometers of Earth's orbit.With an estimated 50 left to log, NASA says none of the 887 it knows about are a significant danger to the planet.
Now NASA is working towards logging some of the smaller asteroids,those measuring 140 metres wide or more. Of the 25, 000 estimated asteroids of this size,so far about 8, 000 have been logged,
leaving 17, 000 unaccounted for. Considering that a 19-metre asteroid that exploded above the city of Chelyabinskin Russia in 2013 injured 1, 200 people,these middlesized asteroids would be a serious danger if they enter Earth's orbit. ① Whether NASA can find the remaining middle-sized NEOs depends on getting the money to build NEOCam,a 0. 5-metre space telescope which would use infrared(红外线的）
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light to locate asteroids. ② Once logged,the planetary defence team would still need to work out how to defend the planet against being hit by the truly worrying asteroids-the PHAs.
＂Potentially Hazardous Asteroids\kilometres of Earth's orbit. NASA has created a map of 1, 400 PHAs,none of which are expected to be a threat in the next one hundred years. _③ With technology already available,NASA can track these objects and make predictions about possible impact,at which point two defence solutions could be launched.
The first is DART-the Double Asteroid Redirection Test. Plans are scheduled to test DART on the moon of an asteroid called Didymos. \etre mother,and hopefully the impact of DART will knock it out of its orbit enough for Earth-based telescopes to pick up.
Another suggested defence against a PHA on course to hit Earth is to blow it up using a nuclear weapon. It may sound like a plot from a film, and it was the subject of the 1998 film Armageddon, but the Hypervelocity Asteroid Mitigation Mission for Emergency Response (HAMMER) is a genuine NASA proposal. ④ The eight-ton rockets would be fired at an approaching asteroid with the hope of bumping it off course. If the asteroid was too close to Earth for this plan to work, the rockets would carry nuclear bombs to blow it up instead. 61. Which of the following has the closest meaning to the underlined word“log”? A record B protect C decide D. discover 62. What can we know from the first two paragraphs? A. NASA has measured 90 percent of the asteroids B. The asteroids are proved to be no danger to the planet C. There are still many unlogged asteroids near Earth. D. Middle-sized asteroids are more likely to enter Earth's orbit 63. What can we infer from the passage?
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A. PHAs are a big concern but not an immediate threat in the short term B People needn't worry about the middle-sized asteroids with the help of DART. C. A special telescope will provide a complete defence against asteroids hitting Earth D. It is likely that Didymoon will be knocked out of its orbit, dropping to Earth 64. Where does the following sentence fit best in the passage? \ A.① B ② C ③ D.④
D
Monday dawned warm and rainless. Aurelio Escovar, a dentist without a degree, opened his office at six. When he had a handful of instruments arranged on the table, he sat down to polish the false teeth. He seemed not to be thinking about what he was doing, but worked steadily
The sharp voice of his eleven-year-old son interrupted his concentration “Papa” “What?”
“The Mayor wants to know if you'll pull his tooth” “Tell him I’m not here.”
He was polishing a gold tooth. He held it at arm's length, and examined it with his eyes half closed. His son shouted again from the little waiting room
“He says you are, too, because he can hear you”
The dentist kept examining the tooth. Only when he had put it on the table with the finished work did he say, \much the better. He took several pieces of a bridge out of a cardboard boxwhere he kept the things he still had to do and began to polish the gold
“Papa”
“What? “ He still hadn't changed his expression \if you don't take out his tooth, he'll shoot you.” Without hurrying, with an extremely calm movement, he stopped his work and pulled the lower drawer of the table all the way out. There was a revolver(左轮手枪).”OK, ” he said .
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