How to Argue with Your Boss

    Before you argue with your boss, check with the boss’s secretary to determine his mood. If he ate nails for breakfast, it is not a good idea to ask him for something. Even without the boss’s secretary, there are keys to timing: don’t approach the boss when he’s on deadline; don’t go in right before lunch, when he is apt to be distracted and rushed; don’t go in just before or after he has taken a vacation.

    If you’re mad, that will only make your boss mad. Calm down first. And don’t let a particular concern open the floodgates for all your accumulated frustration. The boss will feel that you think negatively about the company and it is hopeless trying to change your mind. Then, maybe he will dismiss you.

    Terrible disputes can result when neither the employer nor the employee knows what is the problem the other wants to discuss. Sometimes the fight will go away when the issues are made clear. The employee has to get his point across clearly in order to make the boss understand it.

    Your boss has enough on his mind without your adding more. If you can’t put forward an immediate solution, at least suggest how to approach the problem. People who frequently present problems without solutions to their boss may soon find they can’t get past the secretary.

    To deal effectively with a boss, it’s important to consider his goals and pressures. If you can put yourself in the position of being a partner to the boss, then he will be naturally more inclined to work with you to achieve your goals.

1.Paragraph 2 ______

2.Paragraph 3 ______

3.Paragraph 4 ______

4.Paragraph 5 ______

 

A. Keep Your Voice Low All the Time

B. Put Yourself in the Boss’s Position

C. Propose Your Solution

D. Don’t Go in When You Are Angry

E. Make the Issue Clear

F. Never Give in

 

5.If you want to ask the boss for anything, it is important to find out first _________.

6.It is necessary to make clear to the boss ___________.

7.It is not wise to present the boss with a problem ___________.

8.You must be considerate and think of the troubles ____________.

 

A. to give the boss your advice

B. how he is feeling

C. the boss may have

D. what you really want to talk to him about

E. without suggesting a way to solve it

F. how unhappy you are

 

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    Jonathan James looks like just another kid about to graduatefrom high school. But this 19-year-old
Swede is anything but ordinary from the computer in his parents' home, he helps the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) find out the world's most wanted cybercriminals.    
    Jonathan first made headlines when he and another Swede, Fredrik Bjoerck, found out the maker of the " Melissa" Virus in March, 1999. He went to the aid of the FBI again on May 7 , findingout the suspected sender of the dangerous" I LOVE YOU" virus. The suspect was caught in Manila on May 8.    
    Jonathan's special skills are in hot demand as officials around the world express alarm at the" virtual"
crime. In studying for finalexams, hanging out with his friends and refereeing his younger brother's football matches, the quiet, gentle teenager also gives les-sons on e-security(电子安全) to large companies. He
reads a lot and exchanges information with other computer experts to know much about the latest tricks of the hacker trade.      
    Many companies have already tried to employ him, but he is not interested at the moment. Instead, he
plans to begin law school in the autumn at Sweden's Uppsala University and start up his owne-security
company.      
    Ahhough he works with the FBI now and then, his family insists he's just" a regular kid". "Jonathan is a
great kid. He has his friends and he does a lot more than just play with the Computer,"his little sister Tessa said, adding that he helps the FBI because" he likes to help" not because he's looking for fame or
recognition.      
    When the world was hit by the" Love Bug" virus, Jonathan was too busy preparing a speech on security to look into the problem. "Finally on May 7 , I had some free time, so I began looking. "Within a few
hours, he found the suspect and e-mailed his methods and resuits to the FBI. He said his work on the
" Melissa" virus, which took three weeks to solve, was a big help in finding the suspect so quickly.     
     "This time I knew exactly where to start, what to disregard and what to look at. "

1. The underlined word" cybercriminals" in the first paragraph most probably means __   .
A. persons who commit a crime in the network    
B. softwares for smoothing away the poison    
C. persons who create the network    
D. designers for the Internet systems
2. The public started to know something about Jonathan just from_______.    
A. his helping the FBI to find out the sender of the dangerous" I LOVE YOU" virus    
B. his work together with Fredrik Bjoerck to find out the maker of the" Melissa" virus    
C. his little sister's talk about his good qualities as a regular kid and good programmer    
D. his speech on e-security to many computer companies after his fight against hackers
3. What do we know about Jonathan? 
A. He is a good fame hunter with various abilities.    
B. He is such a brave fighter that any criminal will feel afraid.    
C. He is an expert on e-security, not interested in running a company.    
D. He is a regular kid but does something unusual.

4. The passage mainly wants to tell us that _       .    

A. a Swedish kid helps the FBI find out the most wanted cyber criminals    
B. Jonathan is really a quiet, gentle and ordinary boy    
C. many companies want the young computer expert to join them    
D. all cybercriminals will surely be found out wherever they are

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How to Argue with Your Boss

    Before you argue with your boss, check with the boss’s secretary to determine his mood. If he ate nails for breakfast, it is not a good idea to ask him for something. Even without the boss’s secretary, there are keys to timing: don’t approach the boss when he’s on deadline; don’t go in right before lunch, when he is apt to be distracted and rushed; don’t go in just before or after he has taken a vacation.

    If you’re mad, that will only make your boss mad. Calm down first. And don’t let a particular concern open the floodgates for all your accumulated frustration. The boss will feel that you think negatively about the company and it is hopeless trying to change your mind. Then, maybe he will dismiss you.

    Terrible disputes can result when neither the employer nor the employee knows what is the problem the other wants to discuss. Sometimes the fight will go away when the issues are made clear. The employee has to get his point across clearly in order to make the boss understand it.

    Your boss has enough on his mind without your adding more. If you can’t put forward an immediate solution, at least suggest how to approach the problem. People who frequently present problems without solutions to their boss may soon find they can’t get past the secretary.

    To deal effectively with a boss, it’s important to consider his goals and pressures. If you can put yourself in the position of being a partner to the boss, then he will be naturally more inclined to work with you to achieve your goals.

1. Paragraph 2 ______

2. Paragraph 3 ______

3. Paragraph 4 ______

4. Paragraph 5 ______

A. Keep Your Voice Low All the Time

B. Put Yourself in the Boss’s Position

C. Propose Your Solution

D. Don’t Go in When You Are Angry

E. Make the Issue Clear

F. Never Give in

5. If you want to ask the boss for anything, it is important to find out first _________.

6. It is necessary to make clear to the boss ___________.

7. It is not wise to present the boss with a problem ___________.

8. You must be considerate and think of the troubles ____________.

A. to give the boss your advice

B. how he is feeling

C. the boss may have

D. what you really want to talk to him about

E. without suggesting a way to solve it

F. how unhappy you are

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