2016银行招聘英语部分专项练习(七).doc

招聘考试英语部分专项练习（七） Part I Reading Comprehension Directions: In this part, you will have 15 minutes to go over the passage quickly and answer the questions on Answer Sheet 1. For questions 1-4, mark 　　Y （for YES） if the statement agrees with the information given in the passage;　　N （for NO） if the statement contradicts the information given in the passage; 　　NG （for NOT GIVEN） if the information is not given in the passage. For questions 5-10, complete the sentences with the information given in the passage. What Will We Do For Work 　　I believe that 90% of white-collar jobs in the U.S. will be either destroyed or altered beyond recognition in the next 10 to 15 years. Thats a catastrophic prediction, given that 90% of us are engaged in white-collar work of one sort or another. Even most manufacturing jobs these days are connected to such white-collar services as finance, human resources and engineering. 　　I talked to an old London loader some time back. He allowed that in 1970 it took 108 guys about five days to unload a timber ship. Then came containerization. The comparable task today takes eight folks one day. That is, a 98.5% reduction in man-days, from 540 total to just eight. 　　This time the productivity aims to reconstruct——make that deconstruct——the white-collar world. In fact, I see a five-sided movement that will bring to my apparently fantastic “90% in 10 years” prediction. 　　FIRST The destructive nature of the current flavor of competition, dotcom company. 　　Sure, most will fail. But the survivors will exert enormous pressure — fast! — on the Big Guys. When an Amazon or a Charles Schwab moves into your neighborhood, youve got moments to react. Or take king entrepreneur Jim Clark of Netscape fame. His latest venture, Healtheon/WebMD, intends to squeeze hundreds of billions of dollars of waste out of the health-care system. These new firms aim to create nothing less than havoc in the theaters in which they operate. 　　SECOND Enterprise software. 　　Its a name