There is virtually no limit to how one can serve (1) community interests, from spending a few hours a week with some charitable organization to practically full-time work for a social agency. Just as there are opportunities for voluntary service (2) (VSO) for young people before they (3) full-time employment, so there are opportunities for overseas service for (4) technicians in developing countries. Some people, (5) those who retire early, (6) their technical and business skills in countries where there is a special need. So in considering voluntary or (7) community service there are more opportunities than there (8) were when one first began work. Most voluntary organizations have only a small full-time (9) , and depend very much on volunteers and part-timers. This means that working relationships are different from those in commercial organizations, and values may be different. (10) some ways they may seem more casual and less efficient, but one should not (11) them by commercial criteria. The people who work with them do so for different reasons and with different (12) , both personal and (13) One should not join them (14) to arm them with professional expertise; they must be joined with commitment to the (15) , not business efficiency. Because salaries are (16) or non- existent many voluntary bodies offer modest expenses. But many retired people take part in community service for (17) , simply because they enjoy the work. Many community activities possible. (18) retirement were also possible during one’s working life but they are to be undertaken (19) seriously for that. Retired people who are just looking for something different or unusual to do should not consider (20) community service.
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期货公司董事可以直接向首席风险官下达指令,无须通过董事会。 ( )
A. 对
B. 错
事业单位的固定资产和固定基金一定相等。( )
A. 对
B. 错
When women do become managers, do they bring a different style and different skills to the job Are they better, or worse, managers than men Are women more highly motivated and (1) than male managers Some research (2) the idea that women bring different attitudes and skills to management jobs, such as greater (3) , an emphasis on affiliation and attachment, and a (4) to bring emotional factors to bear (5) making workplace decisions. These differences are (6) to carry advantages for companies, (7) they expand the range of techniques that can be used to (8) the company manage its workforce (9) . A study commissioned by the International Women’s Forum (10) a management style used by some women managers (and also by some men ) that (11) from the command-and-control style (12) used by male managers. Using this "interactive leadership" approach, "women (13) participation, share power and information, (14) other people’s self-worth, and get others excited about their work. All these (15) reflect their belief that allowing (16) to contribute and to feel (17) and important is a win- win (18) good for the employees and the organization." The study’s director (19) that "interactive leadership may emerge (20) the management style of choice for many orgamzatlons.
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Demands for stronger protection for wildlife in Britain sometimes hide the fact that similar needs are felt in the rest of Europe. Studies by the Council of Europe, of which 21 (1) are members, have (2) that 45 percent of reptile (3) and 24 percent of butterflies are in danger of (4) . European concern for wildlife was (5) by Dr. Peter Baum, an expert in the environment and natural resources division of the council, when he spoke (6) a conference arranged by the administrators of a British national park. The park is one of the few areas in Europe to (7) the council’s diploma for nature (8) of the highest quality, and Dr. Peter Baum had come to (9) it to the park once again. He was afraid that public opinion was (10) national parks, and that those set up in the 1960s and 1970s could not be set up today. (11) Dr. Baum clearly remained a strong supporter of the (12) that natural environments needed to be allowed to survive in (13) in their own right. "No area could be expected to (14) both as a true nature reserve and as a tourist attraction," he went on. The short-sighted view that reserves had to serve (15) human demands for outdoor recreation should be (16) by full acceptance of their importance as places to (17) nature for the future. "We forget that they are the guarantee of life systems, (18) which any built-up area ultimately depends," Dr. Baum went on. "We could manage without most industrial products, but we could not manage without nature. (19) , our natural environment areas, which are the original parts of our countryside, have shrunk to become mere islands in a (20) and highly polluted land mass.\
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