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2、问题3. 你的看法？Free admission to museumsPart II Reading Comprehension Skimming and Scanning 15 minutesDirections: In this part, you will have 15 minutes to go over the passage quickly and answer the questions on Answer Sheet 1. For questions 1-7, choose the best answer from the four choices marked A,B,C
3、and D. For questions 8-10, complete the sentences with the information given in the passage.How Do You See Diversity.As a manager, Tiffany is responsible for interviewing applicants for some of the positions with her company .During one interview, she noticed that the candidate never made direct eye
4、 contact. She was puzzled and somewhat disappointed because she liked the individual otherwise.He had a perfect resume and gave good responses to her questions, but the fact that henever looked her in the eye said“ untrustworthy,” so she decided to offer the job to her second choice.“ It wasn t unti
5、l I attended a diversity workshop that I realized the person we passed over wasthe perfect person,” Tiffany confesses. What she hadn t known at the time of the interview was that the candidate s“ different” behavior was simply nadceurslttuarnadl imngisu. He was anAsian-American raised in a household
6、 where respect for those in authority was shown byaverting 躲开 your eyes.“ I was just thrown off by the lack of ye contact; not realizing it was cultural,” Tiffa missed out ,but will not miss that opportunity again.”Many of us have had similar encounters with behaviors we perceive as different. As th
7、e world becomes smaller and our workplaces more diverse, it is becoming essential to expand our under-standing of others and to reexamine some of our false assumptions .Hire AdvantageAt a time when hiring qualified people is becoming more difficult ,employers who can eliminate invalid biases 偏爱 from
8、 the process have a distinct advantage .My company, MindsetsLLC ,helps organizations and individuals see their own blind spots . A real estate recruiter we worked with illustrates the positive difference such training can make .“ During my Mindsets coaching session ,I was taught how to recruit a div
9、ersified workforce. Irecruited people from different cultures and skill sets .The agents were able to utilize their full potential and experiences to build up the company .When the real estate market began to change, 第 1 页，共 50 页 - - - - - - - - -名师归纳总结 精品word资料 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -it was b
10、ecause we had a diverse agent pool that we were able to stay in the real estate market much longer than others in the same profession.”Blinded by GenderDale is an account executive who attended one of my workshops on supervising a diverseworkforce .“ Through one of the sessions ,I discovered my pers
11、onal bias ,” he recalls .had not been looking at a person as a whole person , and being open to differences .” In h the blindness was not about culture but rather gender .“I had a management position open in my department ;and the two finalists were a man and awoman . Had I not attended this worksho
12、p , I would have automatically assumed the man was the best candidate because the position required quite a bit of extensive travel . My reasoningwould have been that even though both candidates were great and could have been successful inthe position , I assumed the woman would have wanted to be ho
13、me with her children and not travel .” Dale s assumptiaonnosthaerer example of the well-intentioned but incorrect thinkingthat limits an organization s ability to tap into the full potential of a diverse workforce .“I learned from the class that instead of imposing my gender biases into the situatio
14、n , I needed to present the full range of duties, responsibilities and expectations to all candidates and allowthem to make an informed decision .” Dale credits the workshop ,“ because it helped me makedecisions based on fairness .”Year of the Know-It-AllDoug is another supervisor who attended one o
15、f my workshops .He recalls a major lesson learned from his own employee.“One of my most embarrassing moments was when I had a Chinese-American employee put in arequest to take time off to celebrate Chinese New Year . In my ignorance , I assumed he had his dates wrong , as the first of January had just passed . When I advised him of this , I gave him a long talking-to about turning in requests early with the proper dates .“He patiently waited , then when I was done , he said he would like Chinese New Year did notbegin January first , and that Chinese New Year ,which is ti
