employees What happens when employees have access to their company’s financial information over an intranet (a network inside the company)? The company grows. There was widespread fear and worry in our company when we decided to put all our financial information, including salaries, on our wide area network (WAN) in 1987 and then on our intranet in the early 90s. People feared our competitors would get the numbers and use them against us－to scare our customers, steal our employees, or attempt some other unimaginably horrible tricks. But that has never happened. And I don’t believe it will. Back in 1968, when I started my company, now an $11-million engineering-design firm, out of my house in Blacksburg, Virginia, my wife did the books. Later an employee took them over. As we added employees here and there, we saw no reason to keep any secrets. We just left the books open wherever they were last used. It wasn’t until a business writer told me, “Oh that’s what we call open-book management,” that I knew there was a name for what we did and that it was something unusual. As we grew and opened five branch offices－ three in Virginia, one in Tennessee, and one in North Carolina this casual system was no longer possible. But we knew we wanted to continue the open style. I can’t say we’re always more profitable because of OBM; we have the same ups and downs as our competitors. And I can’t say we are always happier; we have the same quarrels as in other workplaces. But we do have a great deal of trust here, and our employees stick with us. When we have tough financial times, our 170 employees know that nobody’s drawing off money from the company for private purposes and that they’ve got to make the pie bigger if they’re going to get a bigger price. The management style of the company can be described as ______.

1 .railroad The railroad industry could not have grown as large as it did without steel. The first rails were made of iron. But iron rails were not strong enough to support heavy trains running at high speeds. Railroad executives wanted to replace them with steel rails because steel was ten or fifteen times stronger and lasted twenty times longer. Before the 1870’s, however, steel was too expensive to be widely used. It was made by a slow and expensive process of heating, stirring and reheating iron ore. Then the inventor Henry Bessemer discovered that directing a blast of air at melted iron in a furnace would burn out the impurities that made the iron brittle. As the air shot through the furnace, the bubbling metal would erupt in showers of sparks. When the fire cooled, the metal had been changed, or converted to steel. The Bessemer converter made possible the mass production of steel. Now three to five tons of iron could be changed into steel in a matter of minutes. Just when the demand for more and more steel developed, prospectors discovered huge new deposits of iron ore in the Mesabi Range, a 120 long region in Minnesota near Lake Superior. The Mesabi deposits were so near the surface that they could be mined with steam shovels. Barges and steamers carried the iron ore through Lake Superior to depots on the southern shores of Lake Michigan and Lake Erie. With dizzying speed Gary, Indiana, and Toledo, Youngstown, and Cleveland, Ohio, became major steel manufacturing centers. Pittsburgh was the greatest steel city of all.Steel was the basic building material of the industrial age. Production skyrocketed from seventy seven thousand tons in 1870 to over eleven million tons in 1900. According to the passage, the railroad industry preferred steel to iron because steel was ______.

A cheaper and more plentiful B lighter and easier to mold C cleaner and easier to mine D stronger and more durable

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2 .keepingajournal For the person keeping a journal, whatever he experiences and wants to hold he can write down. But to get it down on paper begins another adventure. For he has to focus on what he has experienced, and to be able to say what; in fact, the experience is. What of it is new? What of it is remarkable because of associations in the memory it stirs up? It is a good or bad thing to have happened? And why, specially? The questions multiply themselves quietly. As one tries to find the words that best represent this discovery, the experience becomes even clearer in its shape and meaning.　　Beyond the value of the journal as record, there is the value of the discipline it teaches. The journalist begins to pay closer attention to what happened to and round himself. He develops and sharpens his skills of observation. He learns the usefulness of languages as a means of representing what he sees, and again skill and certainty in the expressions of his experiences/ to have given up one’s experience to words is to have begun marking out the limits and potential of its meaning. In the journal that meaning is developed and clarified to oneself. When the intention of the development of that meaning is the consideration of another reader, the method of the journal redirects itself and it becomes the essay. Which of the following would be the best title for the passage?

A The Relationship between a Journal and an Essay B How to Keep a Journal C The Value of Keeping a Journal D Technique in Keeping a Journal

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3 .railroad The railroad industry could not have grown as large as it did without steel. The first rails were made of iron. But iron rails were not strong enough to support heavy trains running at high speeds. Railroad executives wanted to replace them with steel rails because steel was ten or fifteen times stronger and lasted twenty times longer. Before the 1870’s, however, steel was too expensive to be widely used. It was made by a slow and expensive process of heating, stirring and reheating iron ore. Then the inventor Henry Bessemer discovered that directing a blast of air at melted iron in a furnace would burn out the impurities that made the iron brittle. As the air shot through the furnace, the bubbling metal would erupt in showers of sparks. When the fire cooled, the metal had been changed, or converted to steel. The Bessemer converter made possible the mass production of steel. Now three to five tons of iron could be changed into steel in a matter of minutes. Just when the demand for more and more steel developed, prospectors discovered huge new deposits of iron ore in the Mesabi Range, a 120 long region in Minnesota near Lake Superior. The Mesabi deposits were so near the surface that they could be mined with steam shovels. Barges and steamers carried the iron ore through Lake Superior to depots on the southern shores of Lake Michigan and Lake Erie. With dizzying speed Gary, Indiana, and Toledo, Youngstown, and Cleveland, Ohio, became major steel manufacturing centers. Pittsburgh was the greatest steel city of all.Steel was the basic building material of the industrial age. Production skyrocketed from seventy seven thousand tons in 1870 to over eleven million tons in 1900. According to the passage, how did Bessemer method make the mass production of steel possible?

A It directed air at melted iron in a furnace, removing all impurities. B It slowly heated iron ore then stirred it and heated it again. C It changed iron ore into iron which was a substitute for steel. D It could quickly find deposits of iron ore under the ground.

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4 .employees What happens when employees have access to their company’s financial information over an intranet (a network inside the company)? The company grows. There was widespread fear and worry in our company when we decided to put all our financial information, including salaries, on our wide area network (WAN) in 1987 and then on our intranet in the early 90s. People feared our competitors would get the numbers and use them against us－to scare our customers, steal our employees, or attempt some other unimaginably horrible tricks. But that has never happened. And I don’t believe it will. Back in 1968, when I started my company, now an $11-million engineering-design firm, out of my house in Blacksburg, Virginia, my wife did the books. Later an employee took them over. As we added employees here and there, we saw no reason to keep any secrets. We just left the books open wherever they were last used. It wasn’t until a business writer told me, “Oh that’s what we call open-book management,” that I knew there was a name for what we did and that it was something unusual. As we grew and opened five branch offices－ three in Virginia, one in Tennessee, and one in North Carolina this casual system was no longer possible. But we knew we wanted to continue the open style. I can’t say we’re always more profitable because of OBM; we have the same ups and downs as our competitors. And I can’t say we are always happier; we have the same quarrels as in other workplaces. But we do have a great deal of trust here, and our employees stick with us. When we have tough financial times, our 170 employees know that nobody’s drawing off money from the company for private purposes and that they’ve got to make the pie bigger if they’re going to get a bigger price. From the passage we can learn that ______.

A most business firms have adopted OBM B it was very unusual for business firms to make known their financial information C it is a good thing to let your competitors know your financial information D OBM can always result in greater profits.

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5 .railroad The railroad industry could not have grown as large as it did without steel. The first rails were made of iron. But iron rails were not strong enough to support heavy trains running at high speeds. Railroad executives wanted to replace them with steel rails because steel was ten or fifteen times stronger and lasted twenty times longer. Before the 1870’s, however, steel was too expensive to be widely used. It was made by a slow and expensive process of heating, stirring and reheating iron ore. Then the inventor Henry Bessemer discovered that directing a blast of air at melted iron in a furnace would burn out the impurities that made the iron brittle. As the air shot through the furnace, the bubbling metal would erupt in showers of sparks. When the fire cooled, the metal had been changed, or converted to steel. The Bessemer converter made possible the mass production of steel. Now three to five tons of iron could be changed into steel in a matter of minutes. Just when the demand for more and more steel developed, prospectors discovered huge new deposits of iron ore in the Mesabi Range, a 120 long region in Minnesota near Lake Superior. The Mesabi deposits were so near the surface that they could be mined with steam shovels. Barges and steamers carried the iron ore through Lake Superior to depots on the southern shores of Lake Michigan and Lake Erie. With dizzying speed Gary, Indiana, and Toledo, Youngstown, and Cleveland, Ohio, became major steel manufacturing centers. Pittsburgh was the greatest steel city of all.Steel was the basic building material of the industrial age. Production skyrocketed from seventy seven thousand tons in 1870 to over eleven million tons in 1900. According to the passage, where were large deposits of iron uncovered?

A In Pittsburgh B In the Mesabi Range C Near Lake Michigan D Near Lake Erie

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7 .railroad The railroad industry could not have grown as large as it did without steel. The first rails were made of iron. But iron rails were not strong enough to support heavy trains running at high speeds. Railroad executives wanted to replace them with steel rails because steel was ten or fifteen times stronger and lasted twenty times longer. Before the 1870’s, however, steel was too expensive to be widely used. It was made by a slow and expensive process of heating, stirring and reheating iron ore. Then the inventor Henry Bessemer discovered that directing a blast of air at melted iron in a furnace would burn out the impurities that made the iron brittle. As the air shot through the furnace, the bubbling metal would erupt in showers of sparks. When the fire cooled, the metal had been changed, or converted to steel. The Bessemer converter made possible the mass production of steel. Now three to five tons of iron could be changed into steel in a matter of minutes. Just when the demand for more and more steel developed, prospectors discovered huge new deposits of iron ore in the Mesabi Range, a 120 long region in Minnesota near Lake Superior. The Mesabi deposits were so near the surface that they could be mined with steam shovels. Barges and steamers carried the iron ore through Lake Superior to depots on the southern shores of Lake Michigan and Lake Erie. With dizzying speed Gary, Indiana, and Toledo, Youngstown, and Cleveland, Ohio, became major steel manufacturing centers. Pittsburgh was the greatest steel city of all.Steel was the basic building material of the industrial age. Production skyrocketed from seventy seven thousand tons in 1870 to over eleven million tons in 1900. The words “Barges and steamers” could best be replaced by which of the following?

A Trains B Planes C Boats D Trucks

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8 .employees What happens when employees have access to their company’s financial information over an intranet (a network inside the company)? The company grows. There was widespread fear and worry in our company when we decided to put all our financial information, including salaries, on our wide area network (WAN) in 1987 and then on our intranet in the early 90s. People feared our competitors would get the numbers and use them against us－to scare our customers, steal our employees, or attempt some other unimaginably horrible tricks. But that has never happened. And I don’t believe it will. Back in 1968, when I started my company, now an $11-million engineering-design firm, out of my house in Blacksburg, Virginia, my wife did the books. Later an employee took them over. As we added employees here and there, we saw no reason to keep any secrets. We just left the books open wherever they were last used. It wasn’t until a business writer told me, “Oh that’s what we call open-book management,” that I knew there was a name for what we did and that it was something unusual. As we grew and opened five branch offices－ three in Virginia, one in Tennessee, and one in North Carolina this casual system was no longer possible. But we knew we wanted to continue the open style. I can’t say we’re always more profitable because of OBM; we have the same ups and downs as our competitors. And I can’t say we are always happier; we have the same quarrels as in other workplaces. But we do have a great deal of trust here, and our employees stick with us. When we have tough financial times, our 170 employees know that nobody’s drawing off money from the company for private purposes and that they’ve got to make the pie bigger if they’re going to get a bigger price. In the sentence in the third paragraph “My wife did the books,” the word “books” means ______.

A the books which the company owned B the books stored in the writer’s house in Blacksburg C records of money received and spent D sheets of paper bound together for writing

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9 .railroad The railroad industry could not have grown as large as it did without steel. The first rails were made of iron. But iron rails were not strong enough to support heavy trains running at high speeds. Railroad executives wanted to replace them with steel rails because steel was ten or fifteen times stronger and lasted twenty times longer. Before the 1870’s, however, steel was too expensive to be widely used. It was made by a slow and expensive process of heating, stirring and reheating iron ore. Then the inventor Henry Bessemer discovered that directing a blast of air at melted iron in a furnace would burn out the impurities that made the iron brittle. As the air shot through the furnace, the bubbling metal would erupt in showers of sparks. When the fire cooled, the metal had been changed, or converted to steel. The Bessemer converter made possible the mass production of steel. Now three to five tons of iron could be changed into steel in a matter of minutes. Just when the demand for more and more steel developed, prospectors discovered huge new deposits of iron ore in the Mesabi Range, a 120 long region in Minnesota near Lake Superior. The Mesabi deposits were so near the surface that they could be mined with steam shovels. Barges and steamers carried the iron ore through Lake Superior to depots on the southern shores of Lake Michigan and Lake Erie. With dizzying speed Gary, Indiana, and Toledo, Youngstown, and Cleveland, Ohio, became major steel manufacturing centers. Pittsburgh was the greatest steel city of all.Steel was the basic building material of the industrial age. Production skyrocketed from seventy seven thousand tons in 1870 to over eleven million tons in 1900. It can be inferred from the passage that the mass production of steel caused ______.

A a decline in the railroad industry B a revolution in the industrial world C an increase in the price of steel D a feeling of discontent among steel workers

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10 .employees What happens when employees have access to their company’s financial information over an intranet (a network inside the company)? The company grows. There was widespread fear and worry in our company when we decided to put all our financial information, including salaries, on our wide area network (WAN) in 1987 and then on our intranet in the early 90s. People feared our competitors would get the numbers and use them against us－to scare our customers, steal our employees, or attempt some other unimaginably horrible tricks. But that has never happened. And I don’t believe it will. Back in 1968, when I started my company, now an $11-million engineering-design firm, out of my house in Blacksburg, Virginia, my wife did the books. Later an employee took them over. As we added employees here and there, we saw no reason to keep any secrets. We just left the books open wherever they were last used. It wasn’t until a business writer told me, “Oh that’s what we call open-book management,” that I knew there was a name for what we did and that it was something unusual. As we grew and opened five branch offices－ three in Virginia, one in Tennessee, and one in North Carolina this casual system was no longer possible. But we knew we wanted to continue the open style. I can’t say we’re always more profitable because of OBM; we have the same ups and downs as our competitors. And I can’t say we are always happier; we have the same quarrels as in other workplaces. But we do have a great deal of trust here, and our employees stick with us. When we have tough financial times, our 170 employees know that nobody’s drawing off money from the company for private purposes and that they’ve got to make the pie bigger if they’re going to get a bigger price. The author adopted “open-book management” ______.

A because of the increase of employees B according to the recommendation of a business writer C because of the big profits it would bring D without being aware of it

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