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 Are you a team player?
We hear a lot about team building these days. Team-building gurus are hired by some corporations to lecture us on how to work more effectively with each other. And they organize awaydays(息工日) - a time employees spend together away from their usual workplace.
Here in the UK, employees can take part in activities such as Zombie boot camps where military instructors train you how to fight walking 'dead people'. For the brainier office workers amongst us there are crime investigations modelled on popular TV dramas like Sherlock Holmes and CSI.
Stressed-out city workers might have ukulele lessons made available to them. Why is that a good team-building exercise? Ukulele teacher Lorraine Bow says: "The fact that they can play a musical instrument within an hour is quite a fulfilling thing, really. It's not competitive – it's quite easy to do and a bit less intimidating than a guitar…"
Actually, a horse might be a bit more intimidating than an instrument. The animals are used by a company in Abu Dhabi which teaches leadership through horse training. Basically, you have to go in a yard with a horse and persuade it that you're the boss by using body language.
Kelly Eide, co-founder of True Leadership, says: "The horses don't care if your hair is purple, if you're a man or a woman, if you're old or young... It transcends all of those cultural boundaries – age, gender, religion, tradition etc. – so that's a perfect fit. And in an organization where you really need groups of people to gel, who come from backgrounds which have no common norms, you can teach that most efficiently with a horse."
And the horse feels instinctively whether or not you are a natural leader. So if after you've done a good presentation your boss offers you a carrot, you'll know where he might have learnt it from.
24. What are awaydays for?
A. To gather employees to join a meeting on how to work more effectively with each other.
B. To building team spirit among people who work for the same company.
C. To criticize employer who have not satisfied outstanding achievement.
D. To teach people how to make term more united.
25. Which of the following is true according to the passage?
A. The one in which you learn to 'kill' Zombies is more physically demanding.
B. Ukulele lessons are designed for people who are highly intelligent.
C. Stressed-out city workers both have ukulele lessons made available to them.
D. A horse must be a bit more intimidating than an instrument.
26. How long does it take for you to learn how to play the ukulele?
A. One hour             B. Two-hour      C. 15 minutes      D. half hour
27. We can infer that the word "it" (Line 4, Para5) refers to______.
A. invitation             B. recreate        C. cooperate       D. help
 
(C)
In 1988, a company in Ohio invented an alcohol-based hand cleaner, which was meant to be used by health-care worker; when soap and water were unavailable. Joe Kanfer, the company's C. E. O., told me recently, “there were a couple of other alcohol products out there, but they were really ugly. Either they were greasy (油腻的) or they burned your hands white.” Kanfer took a year and a half to develop this product which is visually appealing and does almost no harm to one's skin. Still. Kanfer lost money on it for more than a decade because people couldn't get what it was for.
    The product was called Purell. Today, you see it everywhere. My doctor uses it several times during every office visit. You can hear it in almost every office in the U. S. and school picnics would be impossible without it. The former president Grorge W.Bush was called a racist for using hand cleaner after first shaking hands with Barack Obama, but Bush also gave some of it to Obama and recommended it as a cold preventative (预防药). What was once barely even a product is now a growing product category, worth hundreds of millions per year.
The rise of Purell makes some health professionals uneasy. Some claimed that promoting hand cleaner may worsen “our culture's irrational (非理性的) fear about bacteria.” Still, the clear agreement among experts is that unclean hands pose a serious health risk, and are one of the main reasons in the spread of infections in hospitals. A 2007 study estimated that, in America in 2002, such infections resulted in more than a million and a half patient illnesses and caused or contributed to nearly a hundred thousand patient deaths - about double the number of U. S.deaths currently caused each year by AIDS and guns combined.
However, I asked a food microbiologist whether clean hands might have a medical drawback. He said, “We might have a much healthier population if we adopted the kinds of condition that we see in many Third World countries, with poor-quality food and poor-quality water and lots of bacteria. If we did that, we would have adults who were very healthy and have very strong immune systems. Unfortunately, the price that we would pay would be extremely high child death rate. ”
28. Why did Joe Kanfer lose money on his product according to Paragraph 1?
    A. Because people didn't think it useful.
    B. Because people thought it was ugly.
    C. Because it was harmful to the skin.
    D. Because it burned the hands white.
29. What does Paragraph 2 mainly talk about?
    A. Purell brings in lots of money for Kanfer.
    B. Purell has been widely used in the US.
    C. Purell is a cold preventative.
    D. Purell meets different needs.
30. What mainly caused patient deaths according to the figures in Paragraph 3?
    A. People's fear about bacteria.   B. Hand cleaner.
    C. Bacteria on the dirty hands.    D. AIDS and guns.
31. What can we learn about the people in Third World countries?
    A. They adopt healthy living habits.
    B. They have poor immune systems.
    C. They eat food with fewer bacteria.
    D. Their child death rate remains high.
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