自考英语（二）模拟试卷33
阅读判断
The Workers\’ Role in Management
Traditionally, it has been the workers\’ role to work and management\’s role to manage. Managers have planned and directed the firm\’ s operations with little thought to consulting (咨询) the labor force. Managers have rarely felt compelled (被迫) to obtain the workers\’ opinions or to explain their decisions to their employees. At most, companies have provided \\
1.Traditional workers showed no interest in management.(C)
A. True
B. False
C. Not Given
解析：原文只提到经理们很少考虑工人的意见，未提到工人本身是否对公司的管理有兴趣。
2.\\(B)
A. True
B. False
C. Not Given
解析：根据原文第一段第四句话，公司最多(at most)也就是提供一些建议箱(suggestion boxes)供员工提出改进意见，除此之外工人是很少参与公司管理的。
3.Since policy decisions are business secrets of a firm, workers should not be informed of them.(C)
A. True
B. False
C. Not Given
解析：文中未提到该信息。
4.Before closing, a plant should put up a notice and keep it for 90 days.(B)
A. True
B. False
C. Not Given
解析：文中第二段第四句话中的“90 days notice”意思是提前90天通知，以便让工人有时间调整适应(have time to adjust)，而不是说通知贴出来要保存90天。
5.Companies should tell their major policy decisions to the workers.(A)
A. True
B. False
C. Not Given
解析：根据原文第二段第二句话可知答案。
6.The workers’ participation(参与) in management might save a plant from closing down.(A)
A. True
B. False
C. Not Given
解析：根据原文第二段倒数第一句话，工人可能会提出提高生产率或降低成本的办法，也可能会做出让步，以帮助工厂继续运营(help keep the plant operating)而免于倒闭。
7.Board of directors is the major policymaking group in many companies.(A)
A. True
B. False
C. Not Given
解析：根据原文第三段第二句话可推测出大多数公司board of direction（董事会）是制定最大决策的地方，需要有工人代表加入。
8.One of the advantages of involving workers in making a decision is that the interpersonal relationship between workers and managers can be improved.(C)
A. True
B. False
C. Not Given
解析：文中未提到该信息。
9.An efficient and productive worker should be rewarded with anything but shares in the company’s profits.(B)
A. True
B. False
C. Not Given
解析：题干中anything but意思是“绝不”，与原文第三段第四句话意思相反。
10.Workers should be allowed to buy the plant if it cannot make a profit anymore.(A)
A. True
B. False
C. Not Given
解析：根据原文最后一句话，如果工厂不能赢利(operate at a profit)，工人应该有机会将工厂买下并自主经营。
阅读选择
The Language of Music
A painter hangs his or her finished picture on a wall, and everyone can see it. A composer writes a work, but no one can hear it until it is performed. Professional singers and players have great responsibilities, for the composer is utterly dependent on them. A student of music needs as long and as arduous a training to become a performer as a medical student needs to become a doctor. Most training is concerned with technique, for musicians have to have the muscular proficiency of an athlete or a ballet dancer. Singers practice breathing every day, as their vocal chords would be inadequate without controlled muscular support. String players practice moving the fingers of the left hand up and down, while drawing the bow to and fro with the right arm—two entirely different movements.
Singers and instrumentalists have to be able to get every note perfectly in tune. Pianists are spared this pa
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