剑桥商务英语：阅读模拟题六

Useful Words and Expressions:

Interim; smug; complacency; be content with; prominence; sentiment; challenging; end up; tremendous;

Have you ever noticed the following sentences in your reading? If not, read them through and pay attention to the bold parts.

15. “There is,” said Cockburn, “a culture of complacency…

We should welcome reform as an opportunity, not a threat. I can’t understand people who are content with mediocrity and accept second best when they have the potential to be terrific.”

16. I had uniformly favorable reports from everyone who had worked with him as someone who gets things done and can also bring out the best in his staff.

17. Managing change in a young business like one of our subsidiaries is easier than managing it in Smith’s 549-store empire with all its tradition and resistance to new ideas.

18. It is a very polite environment here.’ he says with a mischievous smile, ‘I want it to be more challenging, so people can disagree with each other…

19. I took each job as it came and I had tremendous bosses who encouraged me. I learned from them how to take pressure and to work fast and hard.

20. It seems to me the only way to work is to be open and honest and speak your mind…