34.company has been approached to buy U. K. media assets, Reuters reports.35.Robert lger, Disney’s president, who made the announcement to a36.London audience at the Royal Television Society’s conference.37.Pixar/Disney feature films include Finding Nemo , Toy Story, and Monsters Inc.38.Media giant Walt Disney Co. operates Walt Disney Parks & Resorts: then39.owns ABC television network, with 10 broadcast stations and more40.than 60 radio stations: and produces films through by Walt Disney Studios.41.lger also said the company at one time it had been approached to buy42.ITV, a U.K.television channel as along with some assets of the BBO, the report stated.43.Steve Jobs, the head of Pixar Animation Studios Inc., who said in June44.he would consider of a new distribution deal with Disney. At the time, no talks were under way.45.Disney and Pixar, who have released five films together, called off for previous talks in January to renew their distribution deal.The companies’ last film together, The Cars, is slated for release in 2005. 38()
Passage One Most people don’t enjoy facing the difficult situations that sometimes occur with coworkers in the workplace. Such situations may arise from honest disagreements over design or engineering issues, personnel or benefits matters, management decisions or actions, or from any other situation where human impressions and objectives differ. There could be double trouble for engineers who are more likely to feel at home with electrons and bytes (信息组), and behave in highly predictable ways, than with coworkers, who often appear arbitrary and unpredictable. For those of us who have internalized the strict and measurable rules of the physical world, dealing with other people can be both disappointing and frustrating. Yet how you manage situations of conflict with your coworkers could have a significant impact on your career, often even more than your engineering prowess or your design skills. Those who deal successfully with potential conflicts are far more likely to receive added responsibilities and promotions, in addition to the pay increases and respect that come with them. On the other hand, not dealing successfully with conflict can potentially relegate you to a career, backwater, with technical challenges and high pay passing you by. Why is dealing with conflict an important skill today It’s primarily because there’s more of it now than in the past. Workers Of all types are more likely to speak up for their own ideas or actions, rather than follow the dictating corporate chain of command. Conflict also sometimes arises as a result of unclear company goals, or when those goals aren’t shared equally by all. Rather than working for a single common good, employees and managers seek individual goals, such as promotion, job security, experience, money, and even the proverbial free lunch. Not only is actual conflict greater today, but even the potential for interpersonal conflicts in the workplace is far greater than at any time in the past. One reason for this is increased time-to-market pressures. The need to rapidly make decisions, establish an engineering direction, and meet project milestones adds elements of tension and stress to an already difficult endeavor. This makes the workplace a potential minefield for interpersonal conflict. It’s especially apparent to an engineer in a position of responsibility, like a project leader or an engineering manager. For an engineer who must work with others to complete a project, the need to manage conflict can spell the difference between success and failure. Failure to effectively deal with interpersonal conflict in the workplace could ______ .
A. lead to getting fired
B. force you to move to the wilderness
C. stall the development of a person’s career
D. prevent a person from enjoying his or her job