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Women make better business leaders than man in all but two areas of management, but men have the upper hand when it comes to focusing on the bottom line, according to an Australian survey released on Monday.
Data collected from 1,800 Australian female and male chief executive officers and managers found women exhibit more strategic drive, risking taking, people skills and innovation, and equaled men in the area of emotional stability.
But men came out on top when it came to comman and control of management operations and focusing on financial returns.
The poll, conducted for the Steps Leadership Program by employment consultancy firm Peter Berry Consultancy, found women were more likely to take a chance with their ideas and challenge the status quo(现状).
“Women are ambitious (有雄心的), bold, colorful and imaginative. They are more confident, competitive, imaginary and have a stronger presence,” Gillian O’Mara, general manager of the Steps Leadership Program, said in a statement.
But the survey showed that men were more task focused and concentrated on getting the job done rather than dealing with relationships. “Men believe that that bottom line dollars are the only game in town. Their key motives and preferences in life appear to be around income, budgets and profit(利润). At work and at home, they are driven by financial opportunities,” said O’Mara.
“Men are task focused and concentrate on getting the job done without bothering too much with relationships. They are more comfortable with different classes and processes.”
The results of the survey, which was based on an international research-based personality test called the Hogan Assessment System used by organizations to select employees, will be presented at a female leadership meeting in
64.Find in the passage a word closest in meaning at a female underlined word “poll”.
65.In what fields are men better than women as business leaders?(回答词数不超过5个)
66. What is the main idea of the passage? （回答词数不超过13个）64. Survey.
65. Management operations and financial returns.
66. A survey showed that women are better managers in most areas of management.
A controversial new study has claimed that men really are more intelligent than women．The study concluded that men’s IQs are almost four points higher than women’s.
British-born researcher John Philippe Ruston says the finding could explain why so few women make it to the top in the workplace.
He claims the “glass ceiling” phenomenon is probably due to inferior intelligence，rather than lack of opportunity.
The University of Western Ontario psychologist reached his conclusion after scrutinizing the results of university ability tests taken by 1 00,000 students aged 17 and 18 of both sexes.
A focus on the factors such as the ability to quickly grasp a complex concept，verbal reasoning skills and creativity― some of the key factors of intelligence ―showed the male teenagers had IQs that were an average of 3.63 points higher. The average person has an IQ around 100.The findings，which held true for all classes and levels of education, overturn 100 year opinion that men and women average the same in general mental ability. They also conflict with evidence that girls do better in school exams than boys.
But Professor Ruston argues that the faster maturing of girls leads to them outshining boy in the classroom.
【小题1】 The report is mainly about ______.
| A．a study that shows men are cleverer than women |
| B．the “glass ceiling” phenomenon |
| C．Professor Ruston’s theory on IQ |
| D．the difference between male and female |
| A．making up | B．carrying out | C．examining carefully | D．looking at |
| A．a little less than 100 | B．100 |
| C．more than 100 | D．96.37 |
Shoppers throughout the West, wary(谨防的) of a double-dip recession(经济衰退), are still pinching their pennies. However, Chinese consumers are opening their wallets big time. According to Mckinsey, shop sales in China have grown by 25 per cent annually from 2007 to 2009. Consumer confidence is now at its highest point since 2007 and female shoppers are leading the way.
Chinese women saved just 24 per cent of their income, compared with 55 per cent in 2006, according to a recent study in the magazine Women of China. What’s more, three quarters of Chinese women say that they’re the ones who control the family purse strings, which means they are an “emerging powerhouse within the powerhouse” of China.
In the 1950s women contributed just 20 per cent of household income, which rose to about 40 per cent in the 1990s and then reached 50 per cent last year.
In a recent study of Chinese consumer behavior, Mckinsey found that women tend to shop more frequently than men, and spend more on personal-care products and food. Men, by contrast, tend to spend more of their income on gadgets(小玩意), drinks and alcohol, dining out, and socializing. They also tend to save for the bigger-ticket items, like cars and houses.
Chinese women make up an ever-growing small part of the market—up from 20 per cent a decade ago to 50 per cent last year. It’s estimated that in the next five years women will account for 55 per cent of the$9 billion market. “The future is female,” concludes a January HSBC report on special and expensive goods in China.
1.According to the passage, Chinese women ________.
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A．save less of their income than before |
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B．are more cautious of spending their money |
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C．make as much money as men in the 1990s. |
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D．spend half income on expensive goods |
2.The underlined phrase in the first paragraph probably refers to _______.
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A．saving more money |
B．making extra pay for food |
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C．meeting with economic problems |
D．spending money in a wary way |
3.Which of the following is true?
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A．Chinese men go shopping more often than women |
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B．Chinese men spend more on personal-care products |
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C．Chinese men tend to save for the bigger-ticket items |
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D．Chinese men spent less on drinks and alcohol than women. |
4. Which of the following can probably serve as the title of the passage?
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A．The Future is Female |
B．The Power of the Purse |
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C．Facing a Double-dip Recession |
D．Chinese Women Going Shopping |