Text 2 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. The office manager has to use the most suitable business system in order to ______.
A. ensure that office services run economically
B. check and copy business correspondence
C. service the information requirements of the company
D. provide means of business negotiation
第一节 短文改错 此题要求改正所给短文中的错误。对标有题号的每一行作出判断:如无错误,在该行右边横线上画上个勾(√);如有错误(每行只有一个错误),则按下列情况改正: 多一个词:把多余的词用横线(—)划掉,在该行右边横线上写出该词,并也用横线划掉。 缺一个词:在缺词处加一个漏字符号(∧),在该行右边横线上写出该加的词。 错一个词:在错的词下划一横线,在该行右边横线上写出改正后的词。 注意:原行没有错的不要改。 Not all crows (乌鸦) can talk. But some can. One crow that talks named Pick. Why Because hepicks things from people’s pocket. He’s pick-pocketer. 81 ______. Sometimes Pick eats that he finds. But if he 82 ______.finds nothing, he calls out, "Go to grass." 83 ______.One day Pick played a joke on a farmer, that 84 ______.was driving his horse on a field. Pick sat in a 85 ______.tree. "Whoa "said the farmer. His horse stopped. Then, "Giddyap. "The horse started again. But then comes Pick’s voice from the tree. 86 ______."Whoa. The horse STOPS. Go away. "called the farmer. 87 ______.Pick lives with Mr. Beck for five years. 88 ______.Then Mr. Beck moved to a big city. Pick returned 89 ______.the woods, and his friends. 90 ______.