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三、阅读填空(共2篇10小题;每小题2分，满分20分)

Passage 1

From: Linda Smith

To: Clarice Ryan

Subject: Report on Employees' Use of Time

Clarice, I agree that waste of work time is a serious issue. The Human ResourcesDepartment recently surveyed the employees. They are wasting nearly two hours per day.Here are my ideas to reduce this waste. First we need to agree on what are the mostimportant behaviors to stop. For example, look at activity No. 1 in the table below. Many peopleare doing this; however, it is the most difficult to stop. I recommend that we focus on activitiesNo.2, 4, and 5.

Making phone calls shows the largest difference between men and women. Women do thismuch more than men. We should ask all employees to limit these calls. They should return non-urgent messages at their lunch break.

For No.4, we should focus on the younger age group. We will tell them that we are goingto check their work accounts for personal messages. For No.5, we can ask managers to watchthis more carefully. Perhaps activity No.3 should continue. This allows employees to knoweach other and it can increase their motivation. The managers will know if someone is spendingtoo much time talking and not enough time working.

Are you available tomorrow? I'd like to meet with you to discuss our next step.

Report on Employees' Use of Time

Finding: From the survey by the Human Resources Department, the writer found that employees are 17._________their working time.

Table: The table shows that the non-work-related activities employees most often do wasgoing 18._________

Ideas:(1) The greatest difference between men and women in the non-work-relatedactivities is making phone 19._________. The employees are advised to retumn non urgent messages during their 20._________break.

(2) The writer suggest that activity No. 3 should continue because It can help employeesincrease 21._________.

Passage 2

In 2012, we started a "Sales-as-a-Service" business called ElasticSales. Our vision was tobuild the sales infrastructure (基础设施) necessary to enable companies to scale their salesefforts. We opened an office, hired top sales talent, and signed up clients within the first fewweeks.

Next, we searched the market for the best technologies available. Unfortunately, we cameback disappointed. Existing solutions seemed to be focused on turning sales professionals intodata entry specialists. None of them showed any understanding of the needs of a sales personwhen it came to their job and daily workflow (工作流程).

We decided to fix the problem instead of complaining about it.

We started developing our own internal sales application. During that time our sales peoplegenerated millions of dollars in sales for hundreds of venture backed Silicon Valley startupsusing our secret sales sauce: Close.

We knew we were sitting on something special when we got more and more demand fromother people who wanted to use our internal software, so in January 2013 we released Close tothe world.

Today, we're 40+ team members from around the world-supporing and coachingthousands of customers to grow every single day.

ElasticSales

Vision: The company's vision is to establish the necessary 22._________infrastructure.

Action taken:The company opened an office, hired top salespeople, and signed up 23._________in the first few weeks. Next, ElasticSales looked for the best 24._________in the market.

Release date:In January 2013, ElasticSales released 25._________to the world.

Number of members: There are over 26._________team members from all over the world in ElasticSales.

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