Baseball There are people in Italy who can’t stand soccer. Not all Canadians love hockey. A similar situation exists in America, where there are those individuals you may be one of them who yawn or even frown when somebody mentions baseball. Baseball to them means boring hours watching grown men in funny tight outfits standing around in a field staring away while very little of anything happens. They tell you it’s a game better suited to the 19th century, slow, quiet and gentlemanly. These are the same people you may be one of them who love football because there’s the sport that glorifies "the hit". By contrast, baseball seems abstract, cool, silent and still. On TV the game is fractured into a dozen perspectives, replays and close ups. The geometry of the game, however, is essential to understanding it. You will contemplate the game from one point as a painter does his subject; you may, of course, project yourself into the game. It is in this projection that the game affords so much space and time for involvement. The TV won’t do it for you. Take, for example, the third baseman. You sit behind the third base dugout and you watch him watching home plate. His legs are apart, knees flexed. His arms hang loose. He does a lot of this. The skeptic still cannot think of any other sports so still, so passive. But watch what happens every time the pitcher throws: the third baseman goes up on his toes, flexes his arms or bring the glove to a point in front of him, takes a step right or left, backward or forward, perhaps he glances across the field to check his first baseman’s position. Suppose the pitch is a ball. "Nothing happened," you say. "I could have had my eyes closed". The skeptic and the innocent must play the game. And this involvement in the stands is no more intellectual than listening to music is. Watch the third baseman. Smooth the dirt in front of you with one foot; smooth the pocket in your glove; watch the eyes of the batter, the speed of the bat, the sound of horsehide on wood if football is a symphony of movement and theatre, baseball is chamber music, a spacious interlocking of notes, chores and responses. Those who don’t like baseball may complain that______.
A. it is only to the taste of the old
B. it involves fewer players than football
C. it is not exciting enough
D. it is pretentious and looks funny
某公司是一个改制上市公司,为了更进一步提高公司的竞争力,公司从英国招聘了一位新的总经理。由于这名新的总经理不太了解中国人处理人际关系的实际情况,所以没有和下级及员工相处和睦。一年过去了,公司没有新的起色,公司董事会在总经理关于本企业的绩效问题上以及他的续聘问题上发生了争议。 由于公司没有新的起色,公司的总经理在领导技能方面就需要发展,主要途径是( )。
A. 通过学习和收获的知识为基础的方法来得到提高
B. 通过秘书对领导的建议来提高
C. 通过讲师和领导建立互相信任和尊重的关系,帮助领导者明确事业范围和期望
D. 通过更高领导层的帮助来提高各方面的领导技能