【正文】 o the ________. [A] turning of the business cycle [B] restructuring of industry [C] improved business management [D] success in education 答案： C D B A 考研英語閱讀解題思路：時間安排 1 : 1，解題步驟四步走 If you intend using humor in your talk to make people smile, you must know how to identify shared 中國最大的管 理 資料下載中心 (收集 \整理 . 大量免費資源共享 ) 第 3 頁 共 20 頁 experiences and problems. Your humor must be relevant to the audience and should help to show them that you are one of them or that you understand their situation and are in sympathy with their point of view. Depending on whom you are addressing, the problems will be different. If you are talking to a group of managers, you may refer to the disanized methods of their secretaries。s machinetool industry was on the ropes. For a while it looked as though the making of 中國最大的管 理 資料下載中心 (收集 \整理 . 大量免費資源共享 ) 第 2 頁 共 20 頁 semiconductors, which America had invented and which sat at the heart of the new puter age, was going to be the next casualty. All of this caused a crisis of confidence. Americans stopped taking prosperity for granted. They began to believe that their way of doing business was failing, and that their ines would therefore shortly begin to fall as well. The mid1980s brought one inquiry after another into the causes of America39。s best, its workers the most skilled. America and Americans were prosperous beyond the dreams of the Europeans and Asians whose economies the war had destroyed. It was inevitable that this primacy should have narrowed as other countries grew richer. Just as inevitably, the retreat from predominance proved painful. By the mid1980s Americans had found themselves at a loss over their fading industrial petitiveness. Some huge American industries, such as consumer electronics, had shrunk or vanished in the face of foreign petition. By 1987 there was only one American television maker left, Zenith. (Now there is none: Zenith was bought by South Korea39。s LG Electronics in July.) Foreign made cars and textiles were sweeping into the domestic market. America39。 中國最大的管 理 資料下載中心 (收集 \整理 . 大量免費資源共享 ) 第 1 頁 共 20 頁 新東方在線 20xx年考研英語強化班閱讀理解電子版教材 第一課時 概述 考研英語閱讀： 1. 重要性 2. 閱讀思路的轉(zhuǎn)變 3. 考研文章的體裁和來源 4. 考研閱讀大綱要求 第二課時 Unit 7－ Passage 1 A history of long and effortless success can be a dreadful handicap, but, if properly handled, it may bee a driving force. When the United States entered just such a glowing period after the end of the Second World War, it had a market eight times larger than any petitor, giving its industries unparalleled economies of scale. Its scientists were the world39。s best, its workers the most skilled. America and Americans were prosperous beyond the dreams of the Europeans and Asians whose economies the war had destroyed. It was inevitable that this primacy should have narrowed as other countries grew richer. Just as inevitably, the retreat from predominance proved painful. By the mid1980s Americans had found themselves at a loss over their fading industrial petitiveness. Some huge American industries, such as consumer electronics, had shrunk or vanished in the face of foreign petition. By 1987 there was only one American television maker left, Zenith. (Now there is none: Zenith was bought by South Korea39。s machinetool industry was on the ropes. For a while it looked as though the making of semiconductors, which America had invented and which sat at the heart of the new puter age, was going to be the next casualty. 第二課時 Unit 7－ Passage 1 A history of long and effortless success can be a dreadful handicap, but, if properly handled, it may bee a driving force. When the United States entered just such a glowing period after the end of the Second World War, it had a market eight times larger than any petitor, giving its industries unparalleled economies of scale. Its scientists were the world39。s LG Electronics in July.) Foreign made cars and textiles were sweeping into the domestic market. America39。s industrial decline. Their sometimes sensational findings were filled with warnings about the growing petition from overseas. How things have changed! In 1995 the United States can look back on five years of solid growth while Japan has been struggling. Few Americans attribute this solely to such obvious causes as a devalued dollar or the turning of the business cycle. Self doubt has yielded to blind pride. American industry has changed its structure, has gone on a diet, has learnt to be more quick witted, according to Richard Cavanagh, executive dean of Harvard39。 alternatively if you are addressing secretaries, you may want to ment on their disanized bosses. Here is an example, which I heard at a nurses39。s God. came the reply, but sometimes he thinks he39。ll be appropriate for you to make a passing remark about the inedible canteen food or the chairman39。t attempt to cut in with humor as they will resent an outsider making disparaging remarks about their canteen or their chairman. You will be on safer ground if you stick to scapegoats like the Post Office or the telephone system. If you feel awkward being humorous, you must practice so that it bees more natural. Include a few casual and apparently offthecuff remarks which you can deliver in a relaxed and unforced manner. Often it39。t succeed, give up or a play on words or on a situation. Search for exaggeration and understatements. Look at your talk and pick out a few words or sentences w