[简答题]Leadership certainly requires business smarts, technical capabilities and cultural sensibilities, but above all, it is about power. While this point is upsetting to some people, the brutal reality is that whatever else a leader must do, a leader must gain, exercise and retain power. We meet too many "high potentials" who aspire to high leadership but are used to receiving rewards for being bright and creative. This breeds a sense of entitlement that is incompatible with the necessity to fight for leadership power.

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Running your small business requires good staff. Once you find them, you don’t want to let them go elsewhere. During an employee’s time with a company, there are a number of forces that influence his or her behavior. I like to refer to them as "push" and "pull" . You’re either pushing an employee towards the door, or pulling them deeper into your organization. Suppose that you’ve made a good hire and you want to keep the employees, the trick is to recognize individual needs of employees and satisfy those needs, within reason, in order to keep pulling them away from the door. Even if you can’t pull them away from the door, at least don’t do things to push them out the door. Recognize that some employees will lose interest and need something fresh to keep their interest. If you can’t continually provide challenges, opportunities for promotion and other interesting and rewarding opportunities, then you’ll have some
A. makes employees satisfied with their work
B. drives employees to work more efficiently
C. causes employees to leave their company
D. keeps employees to remain in their company

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TECHNOLOGY ON OUR LIVES
In the first part of your writing you should present your thesis statement, and in the second part you should support the thesis statement with appropriate details. In the last part you should bring what you have written to a natural conclusion or a summary.
Marks will be awarded for content, organization, grammar and appropriacy. Failure to follow the above instructions may result in a loss of marks.
Write your essay on ANSWER SHEET FOUR.

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[填空题]Recent advances in computing and communication technologies have transformed the contemporary library.

[单项选择]The reliability principle requires that accounting information be dependable--free from significant error and bias. Users of accounting information rely on its truthfulness. To be reliable, information must be verifiable by people outside the business; Financial statement users may consider information reliable if independent experts would agree that the information is based on objective and honest measurement.
Consider the error in a company’s failure to accrue interest revenue at the end of an accounting period. This error results in understated interest revenue and understated net income. Clearly, this company’s accounting information is unreliable.
Biased information -- data prepared from a particular viewpoint and not based on objective facts -- is also unreliable. Suppose a company purchased inventory for $ 25. 000. At the end of the accounting period, the inventory had declined in value and can be replaced for $ 20 000. Under the lower of cost or market rule, the compa

[单项选择]Current legislation that requires designated sections for smokers and nonsmokers on the premises of privately owned businesses is an intrusion into the private sector that cannot be justified. The fact that studies indicate that nonsmokers might be harmed by inhaling the smoke from others’ cigarettes is not the main issue. Rather, the main issue concerns the government’s violation of the right of private businesses to determine their own policies and rules.
Which one of the following is a principle that, if accepted, could enable the conclusion to be properly drawn
A. Government intrusion into the policies and rules of private businesses is justified only when individuals might be harmed.
B. The right of individuals to breathe safe air supersedes the right of businesses to be free from government intrusion.
C. The right of businesses to self-determination overrides whatever right or duty the government may have to protect the individual.
D. It is the duty of private businesses to protect employees from harm in the workplace.
E. (E) Where the rights of businesses and the duty of government conflict, the main issue is finding a successful compromise.

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