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　　AA1：“Eight years ago, our firm’s profits were increasing with each new employee we added. We discovered that eachemployee had the skills and motivation to generate more revenue for the firm than his or her salary cost us.However, for the past two years, our profit margin has been falling, even though we have continued to addemployees. Thus, our newer employees are not generating enough revenue to justify their salaries. We mustnot be hiring new employees with the same level of skills and motivation as those we used to attract. Clearly,then, failures in the human resources department account for our falling profits.”

　　AA2：The following appeared in the editorial section of a West Cambria newspaper.

　　“A recent review of the West Cambria volunteer ambulance service revealed a longer average response time to accidents than was reported by a commercial ambulance squad located in East Cambria. In order to provide better patient care for accident victims and to raise revenue for our town by collecting service fees for ambulance use, we should disband our volunteer service and hire a commercial ambulance service.”

　　AA3：是一個(gè)做鋼琴的公司 原來(lái)都生產(chǎn)很貴的那種 可是最近業(yè)績(jī)下降了 而另外一個(gè)公司 最近引進(jìn)了一種廉價(jià)的鋼琴 于是利潤(rùn)呼呼的漲 所以就讓原來(lái)這個(gè)生產(chǎn)貴鋼琴的公司也introduce inexpensive piano.

　　AA4:Currently more and more books are becoming available in electronic form—either free of charge on the Internet or for a very low price perbook on CD-ROM.* People who would not pay bookstore prices will nowhave access to whatever book they want from their home or workcomputers. Consequently, literary classics are likely to be read morewidely than ever before: 72 percent of those responding to a recentonline survey said they would read books in electronic form, and 81percent said they believed that reading classic works was important.Given this newly developing market, we should invest in E-Classics, anew company that sells electronic versions of literary classics.

　　AA5：關(guān)于投資e-classic的評(píng)估

　　AI1：創(chuàng)新和改革對(duì)組織的壞處和好處。

　　AI2:Constant innovation and change within an organization are as likely to damage the organization as they are to improve it.

　　AI3:有人認(rèn)為人們太過(guò)于依賴電腦(depend too much)，其他人卻認(rèn)為電腦改善了我們的生活(improve our lives)

　　AI4:a powerful business leader have more chance to influence the community or a nation than any goverment offical.

　　AI5：Celebrities are uniquely qualified to address social problems because of their high-profile status and access to resources.

　　AI6:雇主不能在員工不允許的情況下了解員工的健康狀況和個(gè)人狀況

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　　AA1：The following appeared as part of an annual report sent to stockholders by Olympic Foods, a processor of frozen foods.

　　“Over time, the costs of processing go down because as organizations learn how to do things better, they become more efficient. In color film processing, for example, the cost of a 3-by-5-inch print fell from 50 cents for five-day service in 1970 to 20 cents for one-day service in 1984. The same principle applies to the processing of food. And 40since Olympic Foods will soon celebrate its twenty-fifth birthday, we can expect that our long experience will enable us to minimize costs and thus maximize profits.”

　　AA2：The following appeared as part of a newspaper editorial.

　　“Two years ago Nova High School began to use interactive computer instruction in three academic subjects. The school dropout rate declined immediately, and last year’s graduates have reported some impressive achievements in college. In future budgets the school board should use a greater portion of the available funds to buy more computers, and all schools in the district should adopt interactive computer instruction throughout the curriculum.”

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　　AI1：Employers should prohibit employees from engaging in unhealthy behaviors, both at work place and in their personal lives.

　　AI2：“Responsibility for preserving the natural environment ultimately belongs toeach individual person, not to government.”