The function of the office is to perform administrative work. First, it must provide the necessary communications with customers, banks, government departments, and other outside organizations. Second, it must service the information requirements within the company itself. In order to meet these needs efficiently, the Office Manager must employ the most appropriate business methods, systems and equipment.In an efficient administrative structure, clerical operations are organized so that they add to the profitability of the business. However, in many countries the number of clerical staff has increased while the total number of workers employed in production has fallen. In Britain, for example, the total workforce in the years 1919-1976 went up by 25 %, while the number of people who were employed in clerical work increased by 150 %. For a country such as Britain, which depends on a manufacturing base, that can mean inefficiency.To ensure that office services run smoothly, there must be the means to check, sort, copy and file correspondence and other paperwork. Today there is a growing range of machines that can be used to do such jobs. The size and resources of a company will determine how mechanized or computerized its office systems are.The office must give maximum service at minimum cost. A balance must be kept between production, marketing, and administration. As a company develops and grows, the contribution of administration will vary in kind and in value.The most important objective in modern offices is the processing of data in order to provide a means of business control, but in many companies there are weaknesses in the ability to manage communications efficiently. For example, some data are often used only by individual managers, and different departments in the same company may use different data processing systems. In order to contribute to business efficiency, however, data processing must be a centralized service. The system which is required is one that looks at the total needs of a business and therefore assists management in making appropriate decisions quickly. According to the passage, the function of the Office Manager is to ().
A. provide the necessary information for the local authority
B. keep a balance between production, marketing and administration
C. assist management in making appropriate decisions quickly
D. make sure that administrative work is performed efficiently
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TEXT C Venus, one of the four inner planets of our solar system, is the closest body in the sky apart from the Moon, sometimes coming only 40 million km from the Earth. Thus, in the not- so-distant future, when man has colonized the Moon, he will start looking at Venus as his next step into space. As it is now, Venus’s environment is totally unfavourable to human life. Its surface temperature is almost 480℃. Its face is almost completely hidden from view by poisonous clouds of 90% carbon dioxide. But scientists have a simple plan which, they predict, could make Venus habitable. With the help of rockets, they plan to bombard the carbon dioxide clouds with colonies of blue-green algae. Experiments carried out on Earth have proved that blue-green algae can survive and reproduce normally in such an environment. The algae will consume the carbon and liberate the oxygen. They reproduce so quickly that the carbon dioxide could be broken down within one year. After that, the surface of Venus will be partly visible to telescopes on Earth. The increase in oxygen will have spectacular effects on the desert planet. As oxygen re- places the carbon dioxide, the sun’s infra-red radiation, which up to that moment was trapped under the clouds of carbon dioxide, will escape into space and the temperature of the lower atmosphere will decrease. Soon, water will collect from the atmospheric vapor and rain will start falling for the first time. That first rain will never reach the surface. It will vaporize into steam high up in he Venusian atmosphere, but it will have a very important effect. It will lower the ground temperature, perhaps by 35℃. Soon the rain will fall again and again, until the ground temperature is about 70℃. Then the "Big Rain" will strike the soil of Venus for the first time and the clouds will partly clear away, leaving an oxygen-rich atmosphere and a temperature cool enough to sustain hardy plants and animals from Earth. Which of the following is the most appropriate title for the passage
A. Venus--Man’s Colony in the Space
B. Can Venus be Made Habitable
C. Blue-Green Algae--the Only Survivor on Venus
D. A Plan to Make Venus Cooler
阅读下面材料,回答以下各题。 材料1:2006年12月26日,方便面中国分会在北京召开一届八次峰会,研究棕榈油和面粉涨价引起的企业成本增加问题。会议商定高价面(当时价格每包1.5元以上),中价面(当时价格每包1元以上)和低价面(当时价格每包l元以下)涨价的时间和实施步骤。从2007年7月26日开始,占据我国大部分市场中低价方便面价格整体上调,最高提价幅度达到40%,平均提价幅度在20%,导致方便面集体涨价事件。 材料2:针对方便面集体涨价事件,8月16日,国家发展和改革委员会发布了《对方便面价格串通案调查调查情况的通报》,认定方便面集体涨价已经构成相互串通、操纵市场价格的行为。并责令方便面中国分会立即改正错误,消除不良影响。 有关部门对方便面中国分会和相关企业串通涨价行为的定性表明( )。
A. 方便面价格应由市场调节,但调价行为必须符合法律和政策的规定
B. 方便面是基本消费品,必须由政府规定价格
C. 方便面价格应由政府调节,政府可以根据市场供求状况规定价格
D. 方便面是基本消费品,其价格应由政府与行业协调后共同确定
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阅读以下文字。完成以下各题。 美国大学和企业正共同实施一项“氧气计划”,该计划的目标是从根本上改变计算方式,使计算更适应于移动时代,开创新的计算环境。在新环境中,计算机能力将无处不在,人们弃用鼠标而同其计算机直接对话,某些计算机将埋入墙和天花板内。 这项得到美国国防部远景研究计划局部分资助、经费为5000万美元的计划始于5年前,计划负责人为麻省理工学院“计算科学研究实验室”主任佐伊,有150多名来自诺基亚、飞利浦及惠普等公司的研究人员参与该计划。 佐伊说:“在最初2到3年内,参与人员都单独做各自的研究。然后,我们开始研发需要有很多特性的操作系统。氧气计划的目标是将很多先进的技术集成到单一的幕后系统,让人们在保持输入计算资源,如打印机和数据库的情况下可自由移动。完成这一任务意味着,语言识别软件必须同图像识别软件和跟踪人移动的传感器网一同工作。” 2000年,“氧气计划”已开始将其几种“原型机”交与6家发起公司,并寻找未来能购买这些技术的用户。“氧气计划”也正在研究将很多研发成果组合在一起的两种操作系统,其中之一称为02s系统。另一种称为MetaGlue系统。“氧气计划”研究人员在试图研发这种复杂的计算环境过程中,完成了一些不寻常的实验,其中包括产生了由“可重编程序芯片”驱动的、1020个微型话筒群。可重编程序芯片又称RAW芯片(原始结构工作站),也是“氧气计划”的研发项目。研究人员阿加沃尔说:“1020台微型话筒群采用特殊软件来校正接收到的声音,其想法是帮助微型话筒在噪声大的室内鉴别和跟踪群众中间的单个讲话者。” “氧气计划”还包括研发比普通语言识别具有更高水平的语言处理软件,目的是帮助计算机破译讲话意图。此外还有用于跟踪人和事务的被称为“蟋蟀”的室内传感器网,它可同时传送无线电信号和超声信号。 “氧气计划”帮助惠普公司完成了手持计算和虚拟会议技术。 阿加沃尔说:“到2007年或2010年,我们会有大量的可重编程序的逻辑电路芯片,约为1990年芯片计算能力的1000倍,这意味着计算实际上将成为免费的。在单一芯片上,我们可以做想要做的任何事情。该计划真正的影响将是难以预料的。” 下列不属于“氧气计划”开发内容的一项是( )。
A. 由“可重编程序芯片”驱动的1020个微型话筒群
B. 帮助计算机破译讲话意图的语言处理软件
C. 跟踪人和事务的室内传感器网
D. 能识别人行为意图的图像识别软件