In the company in which I work, each of us is afraid of at least one person. The lower your  
  1   is,the more people you are afraid of.  2   all the people are afraid of the twelve men at the top
who helped   3   and build the company and now own and  4    it.
      All these twelve men are   5    now and drained(耗尽) by time and success of energy and
ambition. Many have   6   their whole lives here. They seem friendly, slow and    7   when I come
upon them in thehalls and always courteous(谦恭的) when they     8  with others in the public lifts.
They   9   work hard. They hold meetings, make promotions (推销活动), and  allow their  10   to
be used on announcements that are prepared and issued(发布) by somebody else. Nobody is sure
  11   really runs the company, butthe company does run.
      In the  12    course of a business day I am afraid of Jack Green because my department is part
of his department and Jack Green is my   13  ; Green is afraid of me because most of the work in my
department is done for the Sales Department, which is more  14   than his department.
       Green distrusts me sometimes. He makes   15  clear to me every now and then that he wishes to
seeeverything  16    out of my department before it's shown to other departments. I know he doesn't
really mean this. He is  17   busy with his own work to pay that much attention to all of mine, and I'll
bypass(避开) him on most of our assignments (任务) rather than  18   his time and delay their 19   to
people who have an immediate  20  for them.

   For several years, Americans have enjoyed teleshopping－watching TV and buying things by phone.
Now teleshopping is starting in Europe. In some   1    countries, people can turn on their   2     and shop
for clothes, jewelry, food and many other things.
   Teleshopping is becoming      3   in Sweden. For example, the biggest Swedish company sells varieties
of things on TV in different European countries, and in one year, it   4   $10 million. In France, there're
two teleshopping channels, and the French   5   about $ 20 million a year in buying things through those
channels.
    In Germany, until last year, teleshopping was only possible on one channel for one hour every day.
Then the government allowed more teleshopping. Other channels can    6   for telebusiness, including
the largest American teleshopping company and a 24-hour teleshopping company. German    7   are
hoping these will help them sell more things.
   Some people like teleshopping because it allows them to do their shopping without       8   . With
heavy traffic in cities, going shopping isn't easy. But meanwhile, other Europeans       9   this new way
of buying things. They call teleshopping " 10   on the air". Many Europeans usually worry about the
quality of the things   11   on TV. They think high quality is the most important, and they are not sure
 about the quality of the things   12   .
    The need of high quality means that the European teleshopping companies will have to be   13   the
American companies. They will have to be more careful about the   14   of the things they sell. They
will also have to work harder to sell things that the buyers cannot 15     or see by themselves.