loss of retail sales
erosion of investor confidence
disruption of business operation
loss of suppliers or customers
第1题:
61 Cost and schedule data are usually integrated because:
A. optimized project cash flow can affect financial requirements
B. they provide MIS with an integrated system to produce reports
C. they control escalation allowances
D. they account for omissions in the definitive estimate
E. they predict future performance
第2题:
Text 3 The relationship between formal education and economic growth in poor countries is widely misunderstood by economists and politicians alike progress in both area is undoubtedly necessary for the social, political and intellectual development of these and all other societies; however, the conventional view that education should be one of the very highest priorities for promoting rapid economic development in poor countries is wrong. We are fortunate that is it, because new educational systems there and putting enough people through them to improve economic performance would require two or three generations. The findings of a research institution have consistently shown that workers in all countries can be trained on the job to achieve radical higher productivity and, as a result, radically higher standards of living.
Ironically, the first evidence for this idea appeared in the United States. Not long ago, with the country entering a recessing and Japan at its pre-bubble peak. The U.S. workforce was derided as poorly educated and one of primary cause of the poor U.S. economic performance. Japan was, and remains, the global leader in automotive-assembly productivity. Yet the research revealed that the U.S. factories of Honda Nissan, and Toyota achieved about 95 percent of the productivity of their Japanese countere pants a result of the training that U.S. workers received on the job.
More recently, while examing housing construction, the researchers discovered that illiterate, non-English- speaking Mexican workers in Houston, Texas, consistently met best-practice labor productivity standards despite the complexity of the building industry’s work.
What is the real relationship between education and economic development? We have to suspect that continuing economic growth promotes the development of education even when governments don’t force it. After all, that’s how education got started. When our ancestors were hunters and gatherers 10,000 years ago, they didn’t have time to wonder much about anything besides finding food. Only when humanity began to get its food in a more productive way was there time for other things.
As education improved, humanity’s productivity potential, they could in turn afford more education. This increasingly high level of education is probably a necessary, but not a sufficient, condition for the complex political systems required by advanced economic performance. Thus poor countries might not be able to escape their poverty traps without political changes that may be possible only with broader formal education. A lack of formal education, however, doesn’t constrain the ability of the developing world’s workforce to substantially improve productivity for the forested future. On the contrary, constraints on improving productivity explain why education isn’t developing more quickly there than it is.
31. The author holds in paragraph 1 that the important of education in poor countries ___________.
[A] is subject groundless doubts
[B] has fallen victim of bias
[C] is conventional downgraded
[D] has been overestimated
第3题:
Cost and schedule data are usually integrated because:
A.optimized project cash flow can affect financial requirements
B.they provide MIS with an integrated system to produce reports
C.they control escalation allowances
D.they account for omissions in the definitive estimate
E.they predict future performance
第4题:
According to the last paragraph , development of education
A.results directly from competitive environments.
B.does not depend on economic performance.
C.follows improved productivity.
D.cannot afford political changes.
第5题:
3 The Global Hotel Group (GHG) operates hotels in most of the developed countries throughout the world. The directors
of GHG are committed to a policy of achieving ‘growth’ in terms of geographical coverage and are now considering
building and operating another hotel in Tomorrowland. Tomorrowland is a developing country which is situated 3,000
kilometres from the country in which GHG’s nearest hotel is located.
The managing director of GHG recently attended a seminar on ‘the use of strategic and economic information in
planning organisational performance’.
He has called a board meeting to discuss the strategic and economic factors which should be considered before a
decision is made to build the hotel in Tomorrowland.
Required:
(a) Discuss the strategic and economic factors which should be considered before a decision is made to build
the hotel. (14 marks)
第6题:
194. Generations of Americans have been brought up to believe that a good breakfast is one of life’s essentials. Eating breakfasts at the start of the day, we have all been told, and told again, is as necessary as putting gasoline in the family car before starting a trip. But for many people the thought of food first thing in the morning is by no means a pleasure. So despite all the efforts, they still take no breakfast. Between 1977 and 1983, the latest year for which figures are available, the number of people who didn’t have breakfast increased by 33 percent from 8.8 million to 11.7 million—according to the Chicago-based Market Research Corporation of America. For those who feel pain of guilt about not eating breakfast, however, there is some good news. Several studies in the last few years indicate that, for adults especially, there may be nothing wrong with omitting breakfast. “Going without breakfast does not affect performance,” said Amold Bender, former professor of nutrition at Queen College in London, “nor does giving people breakfast improve performance.” Scientific evidence linking breakfast to better health or better performance is surprisingly inadequate, and most of the recent work involves children, not adults. “The literature,” says one researcher, Dr. Emesto Polite at the University of Texas, “is poor.” [共5题]
(1) The latest year for which figures could be obtained is ________.
(A) the year the author wrote the article
(B) any year between 1977 and 1983
(C) 1977
(D) 1983
(2) For those who do not take breakfast, the good news is that ________.
(A) several studies have been done in the past few years
(B) the omission of breakfast does no harm to one’s health
(C) adults have especially made studies in this field
(D) eating little in the morning is good for health
(3) “…, nor does giving people breakfast improve performance” (in Para.3 ) means ________.
(A) anyone without breakfast does improve his performance
(B) not giving people breakfast improves performance
(C) having breakfast does not improve performance, either
(D) people having breakfast do improve their performances, too
(4) The word “literature” in the last sentence refers to ________.
(A) stories, poems, plays, etc.
(B) written works on a particular subject
(C) any printed material
(D) the modern literature of America
(5) What is implied but NOT stated by the author is that ________.
(A) not eating breakfast might affect the health of children
(B) Dr. Polite is engaged in research work at an institution of higher learning
(C) breakfast does not affect performance
(D) Professor Bender once taught college courses in nutrition in London
正确答案:D B C B A
第7题:
According to the last paragraph , development of education __________.
[A] results directly from competitive environments
[B] does not depend on economic performance
[C] follows improved productivity
[D] cannot afford political changes
第8题:
The comprehensive review of a contractor's technical performance, cost performance, and delivery schedule, is referred to as:
A post project evaluation
B post contract evaluation
C post mortem
D procurement performance evaluation
E contractor's performance evaluation
第9题:
Rent, economic(or pure economic rent) 经济租或纯经济租
这一概念用于从土地得到的收人。土地的总供给是固定的(对此需略作修正),而给土地所有者的报酬就是地租。这一概念经常推广到付给各种供给不变的生产要素的报酬,即,任何具有完全无弹性或垂直的供给曲线的投入。
第10题:
A、Economics, mathematics and physics
B、Economics, mathematics and physic
C、Economic, mathematics and physics
D、Economic, mathematic and physics