首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
How to approach Reading Test Part One • In this part of the Reading Test you match eight statements with five short texts. • Fir
How to approach Reading Test Part One • In this part of the Reading Test you match eight statements with five short texts. • Fir
admin
2013-02-14
98
问题
How to approach Reading Test Part One
• In this part of the Reading Test you match eight statements with five short texts.
• First read each short text and then read the sentences to see which ones refer to the text.
• Make sure you read each text for overall meaning, Do not choose an answer just because you can see the same words in the text.
• Look at the sentences below and at the five sections from an article about benchmarking on the opposite page.
• Which section of the article does each sentence refer to?
• For each sentence 1—8, mark one letter (A, B, C, D or E) on your Answer Sheet.
• You will need to use some of these letters more than once.
A
Benchmarking involves establishing minimum standards of performance and quality, based on identifying the best method and practice followed in other organisations. These standards can then be used as yardsticks to measure the organisation’s current costs, production, management and customer focus, and identify areas where they fall short of norms. According to its supporters, benchmarking raises awareness of innovations and best practice, thus helping all companies taking part in benchmarking exercises to increase their competitiveness: by imitating best practice they may be able to reduce their costs or improve their customer service.
B
There are a number of approaches to benchmarking. Typically, exercises are carried out by companies working within the same field or sector, as in the International Motor Vehicle Programme. Between 1985 and 1990 this brought together car manufacturers from Europe, the USA and Japan with the aim of introducing the western companies to Japanese production methods. As benchmarking by competitors can be very sensitive, in some cases data is mediated through a neutral body, such as a business school, to protect confidentiality and make sure that no trade secrets are revealed.
C
There are also instances of companies in widely different industries comparing their management practices, to see how others have dealt with difficulties in internal communications, supply chain management, and other areas where practice is transferable from company to company without affecting competition between rivals, in other words, topics where confidentiality is not at issue. To a certain degree this practice has been aided by the development of internet websites dedicated to the sharing of information, sites which, being in the public domain, are universally accessible. Of course, this means that only certain types of data are provided.
D
Unlike benchmarking exercises with competitors, which run the risk that participants may want to take what they can and give away as little as possible, benchmarking between the divisions or business units of a single company is far less likely to lead to the withholding of information. As a by-product, co-operation among different sections of the company may well be enhanced, both through increased understanding of how others operate, and by simply being able to put a face to a name, and know who to talk to about a particular work-related problem.
E
learning from the successes and failures of others can of course be very valuable. On the other hand, critics claim that by concentrating on existing best practice, companies simply seek to emulate other businesses. Content to achieve the best of what is being done at the moment, they do not attempt to move beyond it to reach the best possible. However this ignores the creative aspect of the process: learning about other organisations’ operations may well spark off fresh ideas, as in a brainstorming session, and lead into the realm of true innovation.
Certain methods of benchmarking generally do not impose restrictions on the kinds of knowledge that can be shared openly.
选项
答案
D
解析
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/TU7d777K
本试题收录于:
BEC高级阅读题库BEC商务英语分类
0
BEC高级阅读
BEC商务英语
相关试题推荐
HowtoapproachSpeakingTestPartTwo•Inthispartofthetestyougiveashorttalk(approximatelyoneminute)onabusiness
Theinterlocutorasksyouquestionsonanumberofwork-relatedandnonwork-relatedsubjects.(Thecandidatechoosesonetop
FinancialManagement:howtoensurethatacompanyplanisimplemented?
Doyouthinkabuy-to-letinvestmentpropertyisagoodoptioninthelongrun?Why?
Practisediscussingthistask,andthequestionswhichfollowit,withapartner:STAFFTRAININGREVIEWTheorganisationyouwor
HowtoapproachListeningTestPartThree•InthispartoftheListeningTestyoulistentoalongconversationorinterviewan
COSCOEDISystem1Between1996and1997,COSCOhasfinisheditsconstructionofEDIcenterandEDI............2Atpresent,CO
Oliviaandherbrothersoldofftheirsoftdrinkcorporation,because
•Youwillhearacollegelecturertalkingtoaclassofbusinessstudentsaboutprotectingcompanysecrets.•Asyoulisten
•Readthearticlebelowaboutdecisionrightsinacompany.•ChoosethecorrectwordorphrasetofilleachgapfromA,B,C,or
随机试题
葡萄酒、果酒中干浸出物含量是指总浸出物的含量减去总糖的含量。
战略性计划
女性,22岁,突起高热,上腹不适,恶心,食欲减退,体温38.5℃,出现黄疸,皮肤瘙痒,肝肋下1.5cm,腹水阴性,血ALT1200U,初步诊断为甲型病毒性肝炎,此型肝炎的传播途径是()
表面黄白色或淡棕黄色,质松泡,气微,味微甘的药材是()
某咨询机构受政府委托,研究制定某地区经济社会发展规划。在咨询机构召开的规划研究准备会上,甲咨询工程师提出,应认真研究规划的现实基础和发展条件,全面反映该地区现状和问题,提出当地的发展目标和产业结构调整方向,特别要把影响规划实现的各种不利因素和风险
计算机账务处理系统中,记账后的凭证可以()。
根据《合伙企业法》的规定,合伙协议未约定合伙利润分配和亏损分担比例的,合伙人之间分配利润和分担亏损的原则是( )。
资产评估报告书要写明评估的( )。
甲公司为增值税一般纳税人,适用的增值税税率为17%。2016年1月,甲公司自行建造某项生产线,该生产线由A、B、C、D四个设备组成。建造过程中发生外购设备和工程物资成本5000万元,增值税额为850万元,人工成本1000万元,资本化的借款费用100万元,安
六年级的小芳通过一节几何课学习,学会了用圆规画圆,这里的学习结果类型是()。
最新回复
(
0
)