Self-Study and Exam Practice of Unit 5

1. Self-Study and Exam Practice of Unit 5 English Department, Huzhou Teachers College

2. Objectives • To enable students to talk about recruitment. • To practise text level reading skills. • To practise a collaborative speaking test.

3. Tasks and Schemes • Exercises (self-study a&b) • Exam practice

4. Self-study 5a: • Find out the extra words in lines 1 – 12. • In line 5 there is no objective of reference. • In line 12, it is unnecessary to add definite article because the later expression is plural form.

5. Fill in suitable words and then translate them. • We pay competitive salaries because we don’t want our people to feel unappreciated and undervalued. • 公司实行竞争性工资，因为我们不想让员工觉得不受赏识，个人价值被低估。 • Some managers are incapable of understanding that an employee’s goals might not be the company’s. • 一些经理并不明白，员工的目标不一定是公司目标。

6. You can motivate workers by ensuring that they always have interesting and varied work. • 通过保证员工不断从事有趣、内容多变的工作，可以起到激励员工的作用。 • I find it a lot easier when I’m working towards specific objectives and goals. • 一旦有了确切具体的目标，我觉得工作起来会容易得多。

7. Progress meetings tend to be spontaneous and held at pretty irregular intervals. • 工作进展会议往往不定期随机召开。 • Any motivational technique will be ineffective if the employees are determined not to enjoy their work. • 一旦员工铁定了心不喜欢自己的工作，任何激励的方法都无能为力。

8. All the way through the negotiations both sides remained inflexible on the issue of longer hours. • 在整个谈判过程当中，双方在加班问题上各执己见，毫无回旋余地。 • Management dismissed the union’s behavior as irresponsible and unreasonable. • 管理层把工会行为视作不负责任和无理要求草草处理。

9. Match the verbs with a similar meaning. • Remain / stay honest • Restore / repair a clock • Schedule / pan a campaign • Appreciate / value employee’s work • Sever / cut the connection • Rename / rebrand the project • Address / deal with the problem • Quit / resign one’s job

10. Fill in suitable preposition and translate each sentence. • I prefer working on big projects because I like to have something to get my teeth into. • 我更愿意搞大项目，因为我喜欢做能让我专注其间的事。 • A lot of the problem stems from a personality clash between Helen and her line manager. • 由于海伦与直属经理个性不和，导致了许多问题的发生。

11. Attitudes toward motivational techniques vary substantially within the workforce. • 工人对激励方法的态度差别很大。 • In terms of pay and conditions, I don’t think we are falling behind our competitors. • 说到报酬和工作条件，我觉得我们并不比别家公司差

12. There’s a lack of promotion opportunities. • 缺少晋升机会。 • Not working overtime is often seen as a failure to show commitment to the company. • 不加班常常被认为是是公司缺乏奉献精神的表现。

13. Self-study 5b • Put the steps into the correct order: • 4-2-3-5-7-1-6 • Match the words and do translation • Recruitment agency招聘代理公司 • Extension number分机号 • Future reference将来查询，备用 • Executive search 猎头 • Neutral location中间地带 • Key player核心参与者、主要商家、关键角色 • Sensitive information敏感信息、机密 • Skills shortage技术人员短缺

14. Fill in suitable propositions and translate them. • Headhunting is on the increase as advertising becomes less and less cost-effective. • 随着广告招聘越来越难以获得成本效益，猎头活动不断增加。 • Headhunters are able to target people who are not actually on the job market. • 猎头有办法猎取并未真正进入劳动力市场的人士。

15. A headhunter will always make a careful note of names for future reference. • 猎头总是仔细记下名字，以备日后查询。 • Recruitment in the UK is divided into agency recruitment, advertising or executive search. • 在英国，人员招聘方式有代理招聘、广告招聘和猎头等多种形式。

16. Headhunters can offer companies access to commercially sensitive information. • 猎头公司可以为公司提供商业机密。 • Executive search firms monitor Internet forums, noting any interesting names they come across. • 猎头公司主持网上论坛，对他们碰见的任何有趣人物都会记录在案。 • The headhunter assists in the offer process. • 猎头会协助整个开价过程。

17. You don’t need to be fed up with your job to be susceptible to an approach from a headhunter. • 猎头手段高明，你无需讨厌自己的工作，也会被他们说得动心。 • A brilliant contribution to an Internet forum could possibly attract the attention of a headhunter. • 一篇投给因特网论坛的出色稿件便可能引起猎头的注意。

18. Match the words and translate them: • Fill a vacancy • 填补空职位 • Present findings • 提交调查结果 • Shortlist candidates • 对应聘者进行初选 • Pay a retainer • 付订金 • Conduct business • 经商 • Compile a list • 整理出一份名单

19. To make up for; balance补偿 • Exam practice • Reading test part one: • Difficult points: • This company will sell off assets to offset poor financial results. • In a series of downsizing measures ——using several ways of redundancy. (A) • The proposed joint venture with DTR International, one of Taler Chemicals’ main competitors, is likely to shelved. (A) • The company, whose flagship training centre in Copenhagen is currently being modernized and refurnished, made an interim profit of $12m, compared with $23m in 1998. (C) • Shake-up at BTED. (D) delayed

20. The business of carrying goods by road 搬运 • The announcement follows confirmation that the company has also decided to postpone the planned upgrading of haulage systems at its Stockholm subsidiary. • Match the sentence with the suitable passage. • B • C • E • A • D • C • B • E

21. Fill in the suitable word in each blank. • Relevant explanation Corporate hospitality: to offer some strategies for companies to communicate with others better.企业攻关 • The answers • Which • Unlike • However • Only • Each • A • Such • Both / each • One • Than

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