Part Ⅱ
Reading Comprehension (35 minutes)
Passage One
Questions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage:
Professor Kumar Bhatt, founder and head of Warwick Manufacturing
Group(WMG), and Rob Meakin, a personnel director at Marconi, have developed a
partnership to train engineers and managers to BEComee-literate. The New
Knowledge Partnership will include a team of 40 Marconi managers in what
Professor Bhatt calls electronic engineering management or E2. A wide range of
engineering and non-engineering companies has expressed interest in these
exciting programs.Professor Bhatt believes that e-commerce is changing the
business environment to a huge extent. Many chief executives do not understand
the power of the new technologies and, in some cases, are actually resisting
change. He says that “As long as enough industry leaders realize its potential
benefits, e-business will make possible a second productivity revolution in
Britain. This could take the economy close to eliminating the still substantial
competitiveness gap with its main rivals. Over the last five years in the US
there has been a 30% improvement in manufacturing sector productivity because of
information technology. In Britain we can achieve more than that and successful
e-business will be worth billions to the UK economy.”Already Britain makes more
use of computer-aided design and manufacture (CAD/CAM) and management
information technology systems than other European countries, and has a
government that actively promotes e-business. But, observes Professor Bhatt,
Britain has never used technology as a growth driver. “The thing about
electronic engineering management is that you can keep your legacy systems; you
just need to link those systems with an information engine. At the touch of a
button it will allow project managers to see the status of a project, identify
problems precisely and make virtually immediate decisions based on information
that will be much more complete than in the past.”
The E2 program is the result of an alliance by the Warwick Manufacturing
Group with America’s leading e-commerce study center,Carnegie Mellon. The latter
will be responsible for training many of the Marconi managers in America, where
the group has half its business. In Britain, Professor Bhatt has linked up with
Sun Microsystems, Oracle and Parametric Technology, to set up amulti-million
pound E2 design and manufacturing center at theuniversity which will be used for
training and research.Professor Bhatt believes that e-commerce is changing
business tosuch an extent that WMG is likely to be renamed Warwick
ElectronicManufacturing Group. But, he warns “The move to globalize because
ofe-commerce is racing ahead. Although the net allows British industryto
overtake their European peers, it also offers Asian countries toleapfrog(相互超越)
the West. For the first time it is not the privilegeof the western world because
this technology is universal.”
21.Professor Bhatt and Rob Meakin have developed a method to___.
A) teach electronic engineering management
B) train employees to be acquainted with e-commerce
C) train employees to be engineers and managers
D) teach employees about developing a partnership
22.How does Professor Bhatt feel about many leaders in companies?
A) They do not understand a possible second productivity revolution in
Britain.
B) They are excited about change.
C) They are ready for e-business.
D) They sometimes are against the change resulted from new
technologies.
23.According to the passage, what do you know about e-business in
Britain?
A)E-business has eliminated many competitive rivals.
B)E-business has done many benefits to big companies.
C)Many companies have joined in the E2 business program.
D) E-business has great potential and will make changes in the country.
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