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1、国家开放大学电大管理英语4网考形考任务题库及答案形考任务1一、选择填空题(每题10分,共5题)题目 1一 Is it possible for you to work out the plan tonight?选择一项:A. r 11 do that.B. I think so.C. r d love to.题目 2一 Could you give us a speech on management functions some day this week?.选择一项:A. That a good ideaB. No, I already have plansC. r d love to, b
2、ut Im busy this week题目 3 his anger the employees called him Mr. Thunder, but they loved him.选择一项:A. Due toB. In spite ofC. Because题目 4 managers spend most of their time in face-to-face contact with others, but theyspend much of it obtaining and sharing information.选择一项:A. Not onlyB. Do not onlyC. No
3、t only do题目 5 AT&T found that employees with better planning and decision-making skills wereto be promoted into management jobs.选择一项:A. more likelyB. more likeC. more unlikely题目6二、阅读理解:根据文章内容,判断正误(共50分)。Who Killed Nokia?Nokia executives attempted to explain its fall from the top of the smartphone py
4、ramid with three factors : 1) that Nokia was technically inferior to Apple, 2) that the company was complacent and 3) that its leaders didn,t see the disruptive iPhone coming.It has also been argued that it was none of the above. Nokia lost the smartphone battle because of divergent shared fears amo
5、ng the companys middle and top managers which led to company-wide inertia that left it powerless to respond to Apple,s game.Based on the findings of an in-depth investigation and 76 interviews with top and middle managers, engineers and external experts, the researchers discovered a culture of fear
6、due to temperamental leaders and that frightened middle managers were scared of telling the truth.The fear that froze the company came from two places. First, the companys top managers had a terrifying reputation. Some members of Nokias board and top management were described as “extremely temperame
7、ntalv and they regularly shouted at people “at the top of their lungs” .It was very difficult to tell them things they didn,t want to hear. Secondly, top managers were afraid of the external environment and not meeting their quarterly targets, which also impacted how they treated middle managers.Top
8、 managers thus made middle managers afraid of disappointing them. Middle managers were told that they were not ambitious enough to meet top managers, goals.Fearing the reactions of top managers, middle managers remained silent or provided optimistic, filtered information. Thus, middle managers direc
9、tly lied to top management.Worse, a culture of status inside Nokia made everyone want to hold onto vested power for fear of resources being allocated elsewhere if they delivered bad news or showed that they were not bold or ambitious enough to undertake challenging assignments.Beyond verbal pressure
10、, top managers also applied pressure for faster performance in personnel selection. This led middle managers to over promise and under deliver. One middle manager told us that “you can get resources by promising something earlier, or promising a lot.Its sales work. ”While modest fear might be health
11、y for motivation, abusing it can be like overusing a drug, which risks generating harmful side effects. To reduce this risk, leaders should coordinate with the varied emotions of the staff. Nokia,s top managers should have encouraged safe dialogue, internal coordination and feedback to understand th
12、e true emotion in the organization.操作提示:正确选T,错误选F。1. Nokia lost the smartphone battle because its technology is not as good as that of Apple.(F)2. Nokias middle managers were frank to tell the truth, but the top ones didn,t listen to them. (F)3. Nokia/ s top managers were too moody to hear anything
13、good but harsh. (T)4. Middle managers in Nokia delivered results more than they promised earlier- (F)5. Nokias top managers should have had better conversation techniques to encourage internal coordination and truth. (T)形考任务2第一套一、选择填空题(每题10分,共5题)题目 1一 Will you go on a picnic with us tomorrow?.选择一项:A
14、. Yes, but r 11 have English classesB. Sorry, I have an appointment with Dr. BrownC- r m afraid I have no idea题目 2一 If you cant say what youve come to say at the meeting, whats the point?一, but I think you might need to change your approach somewhat.选择一项:A. I am not sureB. I can see thatC- I know th
15、at题目 3Every time I tried to say something, he would to something else.选择一项:A. move offB. move onC. move over题目 4Effective leaders distill complex thoughts and strategies into simple, memorable terms colleagues and customers can grasp and act upon.选择一项:A. whenB. thatC. who题目 5When the message finally
16、 reached the Command Center, itmutated” to become 一 Send three and four-pence, we,re going to a dance. ”选择一项:A. wasB. hadC. have题目6二、完型填空(共50分)操作提示:通过下拉选项框选择正确的词汇。What We Have Here: A Failure to CommunicateIt is the weirdest thing. There are more ways than ever to communicate with people, yet it sometimes seems