[填空题]A
Ensuring employees arrive at work geared up and ready to give their all is a major challenge facing managers today. It used to be so easy. A fat pay cheque and the promise of promotion was all that was needed to keep people committed, loyal and happy. But the world of work has changed, and nowadays, organisations cannot rely on the corporate cheque book to give them the edge. Numerous employee surveys have shown that although pay still makes people tick, a whole raft of other issues have entered the motivation equation.
B
One of the problems is that managers often don’t appreciate they are playing in a completely new ball game, and a reliance on old-style motivational techniques just won’t work in today’s technology-driven, fast-paced business environment. For example, an employee could be working in South Africa, with a boss sitting in London and the main client they are dealing with based in Asia. So for someone who is very motivated by face-to-face contact a

[填空题]A
Ensuring employees arrive at work geared up and ready to give their all is a major challenge facing managers today. It used to be so easy. A fat pay cheque and the promise of promotion was all that was needed to keep people committed, loyal and happy. But the world of work has changed, and nowadays, organisations cannot rely on the corporate cheque book to give them the edge. Numerous employee surveys have shown that although pay still makes people tick, a whole raft of other issues have entered the motivation equation.
B
One of the problems is that managers often don’t appreciate they are playing in a completely new ball game, and a reliance on old-style motivational techniques just won’t work in today’s technology-driven, fast-paced business environment. For example, an employee could be working in South Africa, with a boss sitting in London and the main client they are dealing with based in Asia. So for someone who is very motivated by face-to-face contact a

[单项选择]The underlined phrase work up in Quiz 1 means （）
A. relieve
B. develop
C. lose
D. waste

[单项选择]Lilly has to get up early and arrive in good time because______.


A. she has to study all the poses
B. it takes time for her to get prepared
C. the photographers insist on punctuality
D. no one can do anything until she arrives

[填空题]to give up one’s work

[单项选择] Bringing up children is hard work, and you are often to blame for any had behavior of your children. If so, Judith Rich Hams has good news for you. Parents, she argues, have no important long term effects on the development of the. personality of their children. Far more important are their playground friends and neighborhood companions. Ms Harris takes to bits the assumption which has dominated developmental psychology for almost half a century. Ms Harris’’s attack on the developmentalists’ "nurture" argument looks likely to reinforce doubts that the profession was already having. If parents matter, why is it that two adopted children, reared in the same home, are no more similar in personality than two adopted children reared in separate homes Or that a pair of identical twins, reared in the same home, are no more alike than a pair of identical twins reared in different homes Difficult as it is to track the precise effects of parental upbringing, it may be harder to meas
A. Children tend to assume their parents’ personality.
B. Children reared in the same home are similar in personality.
C. Children are more influenced by their peers than by their parents.
D. Identical twins under the same parents develop separate personalities.

[单项选择]Now I must work twice as hard to catch up with others．（）
A. 我现在必须花两倍的时间，为的是赶上别人。
B. 我现在必须加倍努力，与别人保持同步。
C. 我面对双重困难，依然不落后他人。
D. 我现在必须加倍努力才能超过别人。

[单项选择]He will have to give up his research work, because he suffers from ______ vision.
A. blocked
B. blurred
C. weakened
D. damaged

[单项选择]Up to now, the work has been easy.（　）
A. So
B. So long
C. So that
D. So far