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Well, no gain without pain, they say. But what about pain without gain? Everywhere you go in America, you hear tales of corporate revival. What is harder to establish is whether the productivity revolution that businessmen assume they are presiding over is for real.
The official statistics are mildly discouraging. They show that, if you lump manufacturing and services together, productivity has grown on average by 1.2% since 1987. That is somewhat faster than the average during the previous decade. And since 1991, productivity has increased by about 2% a year, which is more than twice the 1978-1987 average. The trouble is that part of the recent acceleration is due to the usual rebound that occurs at this point in a business cycle, and so is not conclusiv
e evidence of a revival in the underlying trend. There is, as Robert Rubin, the treasury secretary, says, a “disjunction” between the mass of business anecdote that points to a leap in productivity and the picture reflected by the statistics.
Some of this can be easily explained. New ways of organizing the workplace—all that re-engineering and downsizing—are only one contribution to the overall productivity of an economy, which is driven by many other factors such as joint investment in equipment and machinery, new technology, and investment in education and training. Moreover, most of the changes that companies make are intended to keep them profitable, and this need not always mean increasing productivity: switching to new markets or improving quality can matter just as much.
Two other explanations are more speculative. First, some of the business restructuring of recent years may have been ineptly done. Second, even if it was well done, it may have spread much less widely than people suppose.
Leonard Schlesinger, a Harvard academic and former chief executive of Au Bong Pain, a rapidly growing chain of bakery cafes, says that much “re-engineering” has been crude. In many cases, he believes, the loss of revenue has been greater than the reductions in cost. His colleague, Michael Beer, says that far too many companies have applied re-engineering in a mechanistic fashion, chopping out costs without giving sufficient thought to long term profitability. BBDO’s Al Rosenshine is blunter. He dismisses a lot of the work of re-engineering consultants as mere rubbish—“the worst sort of ambulance cashing.”
46. According to the author, the American economic situation is ________.
[A] not as good as it seems
[B] at its turning point
[C] much better than it seems
[D] near to complete recovery
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As our knowledge of health and fitness increases,people are becoming more and moreinterested in not only taking care of themselves ___1,but mentally and spiritually as well.As aresult,many are turning ___2 more complete approaches to health,including less mainstream fitness methods such as yoga.
Yoga's origins lie in Hindu philosophy,___3 was developed thousands of years ago in India.Recent decades have ___4 yoga gain widespread acceptance as a method of staying in shape,as well as a way of handling stress.Pop singer Madonna and supermodel Christy Turlington are just two of the many celebrities ___5 to be strong advocates of yoga.
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Which of the following is true according to the text?
A People with surnames beginning with N to Z are often ill-treated.
B VIPs in the Western world gain a great deal from alphabetism.
C The campaign to eliminate alphabetism still has a long way to go.
D Putting things alphabetically may lead to unintentional bias.
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参考答案:错误
第5题
A. The IP addresses of workstations allowed gain access to the router via an access list
B. Permanent name-to-address mappings created using the ip host command.
C. Temporary and permanent DNS entries.
D. The names of the routers created using the hostname command.
E. The length of time of users logged into the router, as well as the duration
第6题
The value of competition works against the spirit of national cooperation in that().
A. it makes people not believe in the government
B. it causes people to suspect but not to trust each other
C. it makes people even unable to cooperate well on local levels
D. it encourages people to gain success through individual hard work
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According to the text, which of the following statements is TRUE? ()
[A] Wal-Mart was forced to withdraw its investment from Germany.
[B] Wal-Mart operates very well in South Korea.
[C] Wal-Mart has wholly-owned operations in China and Canada.
[D] Wal-Mart made its new company logo known in 2009.
第10题
A.it can use video and audio as well as text and images.
B.it can appear almost anywhere on the page
C.it can take you to a place where you can buy something.
D.it can offer you the exact product that you are looking for.
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