To give praise costs the giver ___________ but a moment's thought and a moment's effort.

A.tip

B.thank you

C.praise

D.hand

A.spend

B.give

C.buil

D.afford

A.“I find incomparable things said incomparably well.”

B.All the three answers mentioned above.

C.“I give you joy of your free and brave thought.”

D.“I greet you at the beginning of a great career.”

Praise and encouragement also makes employees more likely to work hard and stay in their jobs. In this way the business companies can save the cost of finding new employees. A third of 1,000 workers surveyed by a consulting firm said they did not get thanked at all when they did well-and a further third said they were not thanked enough. In both cases. staff said they felt undervalued，meaning they were less likely to exert themselves and were more likely to look for employment elsewhere.

The result of the survey shows that there would be around ￡5.2 billion loss in productivity if the employees felt less appreciated. According to the firm，praising staff has the same positive effect as a 1 per cent pay rise-and works out much cheaper for bosses. Three out of four employees said that regular acknowledgement by their bosses was important to them，but only a quarter said they were actually given as much praise as they felt they needed.

The survey found that those in blue-collar and manual jobs were less likely to be given any recognition for doing well. But it seems that they most need such praise.

In regional terms，Scottish staff felt most undervalued. Four out of ten workers said they were never thanked and eight out of ten said they would like more praise. However. workers in the North-East are less impressed by being praised by the boss，as only 69 per cent said they felt the need to be told“well done”regularly. Older employees and women need the most reassurance，according to psychologist Averil Leimon. She said that words of praise did more than creating a pleasant place to work-they could even promote profits.

The survey indicates that politeness could save businesses a huge amount of money every year because______.

A．politeness makes employees expect pay rise

B．politeness is less likely to make staff work harder

C．politeness helps employers find proper employees

D．politeness helps employers reduce the cost of staff employment

Notes

1 Variable production costs would be $12 per unit for production volumes up to and including 100,000 units each year. However, if production exceeds 100,000 units each year, the variable production cost per unit would fall to $11 for all units produced.

2 Advertising costs would be $900,000 per annum at a selling price of $30 and $970,000 per annum at a price of $35.

3 Fixed production costs would be $450,000 per annum.

Required:

(a) Calculate each of the six possible profit outcomes which could arise for Gam Co in the coming year. (8 marks)

(b) Calculate the expected value of profit for each of the two price options and recommend, on this basis, which option Gam Co would choose. (3 marks)

(c) Briefly explain the maximin decision rule and identify which price should be chosen by management if they use this rule to decide which price should be charged. (3 marks)

(d) Discuss the factors which may give rise to uncertainty when setting budgets. (6 marks)

1. Accounting could date back to about ()years ago.

A. 7,000

B. 6,000

C. 5,000

2. People in the old days relied on old accounting methods to record ().

A. how much money they had

B. management of their business

C. the growth of crops and herds

3. Accounting has greatly changed with the development of ().

A. crops and herds

B. joint-stock companies

C. internet companies

4. Accounting is very important in your business because it shows ().

A. how much money you’ve earned or lost

B. pages full of tables and numbers

C. strange dollar amounts or boring numbers

5. According to the writer, accounting is ().

A. a language of business

B. your sales figures, your costs, and your profits

C. Both A and B

Carl Sandburg and a lot of others have tried to make something out of Lincoln that he wasn't. He was a decent man, a good politician, and a great President, and they've tried to build up things that he never even thought about. I'll bet a dollar and a half that if you read Sandburg's biography of Lincoln, you'll find things put into Lincoln's mouth and mind that never even occurred to him. He was a good man who was in the place where he ought to have been at the time important events were taking place, but when they write about him as though he belongs in the pantheon (从神庙) of the gods, that's not the man he really was. He was the best kind of ordinary man, and when I say that he was an ordinary man, I mean that as high praise, not deprecation. That's the highest praise you can give a man. He's one of the people and becomes distinguished in the service that he gives other people. He was one of the people, and he wanted to stay that way. And he was that way until the day he died. One of the reasons he was assassinated was because he didn't feel important enough to have the proper guards around him at Ford's Theatre.

According to the passage, Lincoln was ______ .

A．a man belonging in the pantheon of the gods

B．defied (藐视) by all the people

C．as ordinary as all the other people

D．a responsible person

Often, employees fear that the evaluation will be a negative experience, This fear alone can result in defensiveness and tension, Tile manager must take pains to lessen the employees fear and make the evaluation a participatory(参与的)event. An employee who contributes ideas to his or her evaluation will be much more likely to agree with the outcome and be willing to follow the suggestions.

The employee evaluation system is to improve employee performance. While area8 needing improvement must be reviewed, this should always be done in the spirit of discovering goals the employee can work toward. This holds true for reviewing successes as well. While praise for past achievements may be used as a reward, at the time of the evaluation, the primary reason to look at the persons success is to determine areas in which he or she can continue to excel(擅长).

Perhaps the most effective way to make the evaluation a participatory event is to ask the employee to come prepared to the meeting. The employer and employee each should carefully review the job description prior to the evaluation meeting and should make notes on areas in which the employee had difficulty or has made a contribution. It is important that these notes be specific; "Does a good job" is not nearly as meaningful as "Increased productivity(生产率)by 35%".

Both parties should also draw up a short list of goals for the employee to achieve during the next evaluation period. Ideally, these goals should build upon the known strengths and successes of the employee. However, areas needing improvement must also be addressed.

According to the passage, employees being evaluated _________.

A．are often those who have newly obtained the job

B．often feel fearful and anxious

C．often have the feeling of being looked down upon

D．are often proud and confident