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A Pay Rise or Not？
"Unless I get a rise, I'll have a talk with the boss, Henry Manley," George Strong said to himself. George liked his job and he liked the town he lived in, but his wife kept telling him that his pay was not enough to meet the needs of the family. That was why he was thinking of taking a job in Birmingham, a nearby city about 50 miles away. He had been offered a job in a factory there, and the pay was far better.
George lived in Wyeford, a medium-sized town. He really liked the place and didn't like the idea of moving somewhere else, but if he took the job in Birmingham, he would
have to move his family there.
Henry Manley was the manager of a small company manufacturing electric motors.The company was in deep trouble because, among other reasons, the Japanese were selling such things at very low prices. As a result, Manley had to cut his own prices and profits as well. Otherwise he would not get any orders at all. Even then, orders were still not coming in fast enough, so that there was no money for raises （加工资） for his workers.Somehow, he had to struggle along and keep his best workers as well. He sighed. Just then the phone rang.
His secretary, told him that George Strong wanted to see him as soon as possible.Manley sighed again. He could guess what it was about. George Strong was a very young engineer. The company had no future unless it could attract and keep men like him. Manley rubbed his forehead （前额）; his problems seemed endless.
第 16 题 Henry Manley was already deeply in debt.
A．Right
B．Wrong
C．Not mentioned
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第1题
She applied to her____ (employ) for a pay rise, but she was refused.
第3题
A. consideration
B. inquiry
C. regard
D. application
第4题
It can be concluded from the passage that
A．blue-collar employees are expecting more pay rise
B．pleasant workplace could promote business profits
C．pay rise is an important motivation for manual workers
D．words of praise could possibly increase business profits
第6题
Workers doing well but not getting thanks from their bosses will probably______.
A．leave for jobs elsewhere
B．work harder to get praise from their bosses
C．exert themselves in their work to get pay rise
D．work harder to get encouragement from their bosses
第7题
to cope with
to stand at
to lead to
to meet up
to amount to
1.Consumer spending on sports-related items ________ ￡9.75 billion last year. 2.He warned yesterday that a pay rise for teachers would ________ job cuts. 3.She has had to ________ losing all her previous status and money. 4.Support for the two sides is ________ between 42 and 44 per cent. 5.They _______ in 1956, when they were both young schoolboys.
第8题
It is true that CEO pay has gone up-top ones may make 300 times the pay of typical workers on average, and since the mid-1970s CEO pay for large publicly traded American corporations has, by varying estimates, gone up by about 500% The typical CEO of a top American corporation now makes about S18.9 million a year. The best model for understanding the growth of CEO pay is that of limited CEO talent in a world where business opportunities for the top firms are growing rapidly. The efforts of America's highest-earning 1% have been one of the more dynamic elements of the global economy. It's not popular to say, but one reason their pay has gone up so much is that CEOs really have upped their game relative to many other workers in the U.S. economy.Today's CEO, at least for major American firms, must have many mere skills than simply being able to“run the company" CEOs must have a good sense of financial markets and maybe even how the company should trade in them. They also need better public relations skills than their predecessors, as the costs of even a minor slipup can be significant. Then there' s the fact that large American companies are much more globalized than ever before,with supply chains spread across a larger number of countries. To lead in that system requires knowledge that is farly mind-boggling plus, virtually all major American companies are beyond this major CEOs still have to do all the day-to-day work they have always done.The common idea that high CEO pay is mainly about ripping people off doesn't explain history very well. By most measures, corporate governmance has become a lot tighter and more rigorous since the 1970s. Yet it is principally during this period of stronger govemnance that CEO pay has been high and rising. That suggests it is in the broader corporate interest to recruit top candidates for increasingly tough jobs.”Furthermore, the highest CEO salaries are paid to outside candidates, not to the cozy insider picks, another sign that high CEO pay is not some kind of depredation at the expense of the rest of the company. And the stock market reacts positively when companies tie CEO pay to, say, stock prices, a sign that those practices build up corporate value not just for the CEO.
26. Which of the following has contributed to CEO pay rise? （）
A.The growth in the number of corporations
B.The general pay rise with a better economy
C.Increased business opportunities for top firms
D.Close cooperation among leading economies
27. Compared with their predecessors, today's CEOs are required to().
A.foster a stronger sense of teamwork
B.finance more research and development
C.establish closer ties with tech companies
D.operate more globalized companies
28. CEO pay has been rising since the 1970s despite().
A.continual internal opposition
B.strict corporate governance
C.conservative business strategies
D.Repeated government warnings
29. High CEO pay can be justified by the fact that it helps().
A.confirm the status of CEOs
B.motivate inside candidates
C.boost the efficiency of CEOs
D.increase corporate value
30. The most suitable title for this text would be().
A.CEOs Are Not Overpaid
B.CEO Pay: Past and Present
C.CEOs' challenges of Today
D.CEO Traits: Not Easy to Define
第9题
The changes have been significant, but, because tradition and prejudice can still handicap women in their working careers and personal lives, major legislation to help promote equality of opportunity and pay was passed during the 1970s.
At the heart of women's changed role in society has been the rise in the number of women at work, particularly married women. As technology and society permit highly effective and generally acceptable methods of family planning there has been a decline in family size. Women as a result are involved in child-rearing for a much shorter time and related to this, there has been a rapid increase in the number of women with young children who return to work when the children are old enough not to need constant care and attention.
Since 1951 the proportion of married women who work has grown from just over a fifth to a half. Compared with their counterparts elsewhere on the Continent, British women comprise a relatively high proportion of the work-force, about two-fifths, but on average they work fewer hours, about 31 a week. There is still a significant difference between women's average earnings and men's, but the equal pay legislation which came into force at the end of 1975 appears to have helped to narrow the gap between women's and men's basic rates.
As more and more women joined the work-force in the 1960s and early 1970s there was an increase in the collective incomes of women as a whole and a major change in the economic role of large numbers of housewives. Families have come to rely on married women's earnings as an essential part of their income, rather than as "pocket money". At the same time social roals within the family are more likely to be shared, exchanged or altered.
The general idea of the passage is about______.
A．social trends in contemporary Britain.
B．changes in women's economic status.
C．equal opportunity and pay in Britain.
D．women's roles within the family.
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