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Unit 7 Man proposes, God disposes. 谋事在人，成事在天。 学习内容 题材 数 建议时间 得分统计 做题备忘 Part A Text 1 /10 Text 2 科普知识 411 /10 Text 3 社会生活 461 /10 Text 4 社会生活 436 /10 Part B 科普知识 502 /10 Part C 文化教育 402 /10 Part A Directions：Read the following texts. Answer the questions blow each text by choosing [A],[B],[C] or [D]. Text 1 ’t want to be manager, and many people who are managers are itching to jump off the management track梠r have already. “I hated all the meetings,” says a 10-year award-winning manager, “And I found the more you did for people who worked for you, the more they expected. I was a counselor, motivator, financial adviser and psychologist.” With technology changing in a wink, we can never slack off these days if we’re on the technical side. It’s a rare person who can manage to keep up on the technical side and handle a management job, too. In addition, with Scott Adams’ popular cartoon character as well as many television situation comedies routinely portraying managers as morons or enemies, they just don’t get much respect anymore. Supervising others was always a tough task, but in the past that stress was offset by hopes for career mobility and financial rewards. Along with a sizable pay raise, people chosen as managers would begin a nearly automatic climb up the career ladder to lucrative executive perks: stock options, company cars, club memberships, plus the key to executive washroom. But in today’s global, more competitive arena, a manager sits on an insecure perch. Restructuring have eliminated layer after layer of management as companies came to view their organizations as collections of competencies rather than hierarchies. There are far fewer rungs on the corporate ladder for managers to climb. In addition, managerial jobs demand more hours and headaches than ever before but offer slim financial paybacks and perks. In an age of entrepreneurship, when the most praised people in business are those launching something new, management seems