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题目与答案

1. One example from non-commerce/business settings that better system wins bigger stars
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   答案：F

   原文定位：Football is another illustration of the stars vs systems strategic choice;Arsenal and United;have put much more emphasis on developing a setting within which stars-in-the-making can flourish;At Chelsea;there is no settled system for the stars to blend into;In football, too, stars are trumped by systems

2. One failed company that believes stars rather than system
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   答案：B

   原文定位：The point was illuminated in brilliant relief by Enron, whose leaders;were so convinced of their own cleverness that they never twigged that collective intelligence is not the sum of a lot of individual intelligences;Enron believed in stars, noted author Malcolm Gladwell, because they didn’t believe in systems

3. One suggestion that author made to acquire employees to win the competition nowadays
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   答案：G

   原文定位：So if not by hiring stars, how do you compete in the war for talent? You grow your own;This worked for investment analysts, where some companies were not only better at creating stars but also at retaining them

4. One metaphor to human medical anatomy that illustrates the problems of hiring stars
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   答案：C

   原文定位：One respondent likened hiring a star to an organ transplant. The new organ can damage others by hogging the blood supply, other organs can start aching or threaten to stop working or the body can reject the transplant altogether, he said

5. 18 McKinsey who wrote The War for Talent had not expected the huge influence made by this book.
   • TRUE
   • FALSE
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   答案：NOT GIVEN

   原文定位：The “talent mindset” was given definitive form in two reports by the consultancy McKinsey famously entitled The War for Talent

6. 19 Economic condition becomes one of the factors which decide whether or not a country would prefer to hire foreign employees.
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   • FALSE
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   答案：TRUE

   原文定位：it has been warming up again as the economy tightens: labour shortages,for example,are the reason the government has laid out the welcome mat for immigrants from the new Europe

7. 20 The collapse of Enron is caused totally by a unfortunate incident instead of company’s management mistake.
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   • FALSE
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   答案：TRUE

   原文定位：The point was illuminated in brilliant relief by Enron, whose leaders;were so convinced of their own cleverness that they never twigged that collective intelligence is not the sum of a lot of individual intelligences. In fact in a profound sense the two are opposites. Enron believed in stars, noted author Malcolm Gladwell, because they didn’t believe in systems

8. 21 Football clubs that focus on making stars in the setting are better than those simply collecting stars.
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   • FALSE
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   答案：TRUE

   原文定位：Chelsea and Real Madrid have the funds to be compulsive star collectors;they are less successful than Arsenal and United which;have put much more emphasis on developing a setting within which stars-in-the-making can flourish;In football, too, stars are trumped by systems

9. 22 An investigation carried out on 1000 _____ participants of a survey

   答案：analysts;star-stock analysts

   原文定位：In a study of the careers of 1,000 star-stock analysts in the 1990s,the researchers found that when a company recruited a star performer,three things happened

10. 23 by Harvard Business Review found a company hiring a _____ has negative effects.

    答案：performance star;star;star performer

    原文定位：In a study of the careers of 1,000 star-stock analysts in the 1990s,the researchers found that when a company recruited a star performer,three things happened

11. 24 For instance, they behave considerably worse in a new team than in the _____ that they used to be.

    答案：working environment;settings

    原文定位：In many cases, performance dropped sharply when high performers switched employers and in some instances never recovered. More of success than commonly supposed is due to the working environment - systems, processes, leadership, accumulated embedded learning that are absent in and can’t be transported to the new firm

12. 25 They move faster than Wall Street and increase their _____ .

    答案：salary

    原文定位：So they moved, upping their salary as they did-36 per cent moved on within three years, fast even for Wall Street

13. 26 Secondly, they faced rejections or refusal from those _____ within the team. Lastly, the one who made mistakes had been punished by selling his/ her stock share.

    答案：rivals

    原文定位：Second, group performance suffered as result of tensions and resentment by rivals within the team;One respondent likened hiring a star to an organ transplant;other organs can start aching or threaten to stop working or the body can reject the transplant altogether