六级阅读理解1.docx

1、六级阅读理解1Section A:Some performance evaluations require supervisors to take action. Employees who receive a very favorable evaluation may deserve some type of recognition or even a promotion. If supervisors do not acknowledge such outstanding performance, employees may either lose their36 and reduce t

2、heir effort or search for a new job at a firm that will37 them for high performance. Supervisors should acknowledge high performance so that the employee will continue to perform well in the future.Employees who receive unfavorable evaluations must also be given attention. Supervisors must 38 the re

3、asons for poor performance. Some reasons, such as a family illness, may have a temporary adverse 39 on performance and can be corrected. Other reasons, such as a bad attitude, may not be temporary. When supervisors give employees an unfavorable evaluation, they must decide whether to take any 40 act

4、ions. If the employees were unaware of their own deficiencies, the unfavorable evaluation can pinpoint(指出) the deficiencies that employees must correct. In this case, the supervisor may simply need to monitor the employees 41 and ensure that the deficiencies are corrected.If the employees were alrea

5、dy aware of their deficiencies before the evaluation period, however, they may be unable or unwilling to correct them. This situation is more serious, and the supervisor may need to take action. The action should be 42 with the firms guidelines and may include reassigning the employees to new jobs,

6、43 them temporarily, or firing them. A supervisors action toward a poorly performing worker can 44 the attitudes of other employees. If no 45 isimposed on an employee for poor performance, other employees may react by reducing their productivity as well.A) additionalB) affectC) aptlyD) assimilateH)

7、circulationF) closelyG) consistentH) enthusiasmI) identifyJ) impactK) penaltyL) rewardM) simplifyingN) suspendingO) vulnerableSection B:The College Essay: Why Those 500 Words Drive Us CrazyB) Back in the good old dayssay, two years ago, when the last of my children suffered the ordeal (折磨)a high-sch

8、ool student applying to college could procrastinate all the way to New Years Day of their senior year, assuming they could withstand the parental pestering (烦扰).But things change fast in the nail-biting world of college admissions.The recent trend toward early decision and early action among selecti

9、ve colleges and universities has pushed the traditional deadline of January up to Nov. 1 or early December for many students.D) “There are good reasons it causes such anxiety,” says Lisa Sohmer, director of college counseling at the Garden School in Jackson Heights, N.Y. “Its not just the actual wri

10、ting. By noweverything else is already set. Your course load is set, your grades are set, your test scores are set. But the essay is something you can still control, and its open-ended. So the temptation is to write and rewrite and rewrite.” Or stall and stall and stall.H) “Boys in particular look a

11、t the other questions and say, Oh, thats too much work,” says John Boshoven, a counselor in the Ann Arbor, Mich., public schools. “They think if they do a topic of their choice, “Ill just go get that history paper I did last year on the Roman Empire and turn it into a first-person application essay!

12、 And they end up producing something utterly ridiculous.”I) Talking to admissions professionals like Boshoven, you realize that the list of “donts” in essay writing is much longer than the “dos.”“No book reports, no history papers, no character studies,”says Sohmer.J) “It drives you crazy, how easil

13、y kids slip into clichs(老生常谈),”says Boshoven. “They dont realize how typical their experiences arc. I scored the winning goal in soccer against our arch-rival.My grandfather served in World War II, and I hope to be just like him someday. That may mean a lot to that particular kid. But in the world o

14、f the application essay, its nothing. Youll lose the reader in the first paragraph.”M)“For all the anxiety the essay causes,” says Bill McClintick of Mercersburg Academy in Pennsylvania, “its a very small piece of the puzzle. I was in college admissions for 10 years. I saw kids and parents beat them

15、selves up over this. And at the vast majority of places, it is simply not a big variable in the colleges decision-making process.”N) Many admissions officers say they spend less than a couple of minutes on each application, including the essay. According to a recent survey of admissions officers, on

16、ly one in four private colleges say the essay is of “considerable importance” in judging an application. Among public colleges and universities, the number drops to roughly one in 10. By contrast, 86 percent place “considerable importance” on an applicants grades, 70 percent on “strength of curriculum.”O) Still, at the most selective schools, where thousands of candidates may submit identically high grades