2017年職稱英語考試複習已經開始，為了讓大家瞭解職稱英語考試難易程度，下面是yjbys網小編提供給大家關於職稱英語真題《綜合C》概括大意精選題，希望對大家的備考有所幫助。
Interview with Allan Gray
(1)I was working for a multinational company in the early 1980s, and my brother asked me if I was interested in going into partnership with him to set up a language school. I'd always wanted to work for myself, and I was a bit fed up with working for someone else, so I said yes.
Primarily, I wanted the freedom to make my own decisions, I wanted room to be creative, and also I wanted to be able to get the credit and keep the profits if we were successful. I was also happy to carry the can and take the blame if things went wrong. These things are not possible if you work as an employee in a large organization.
(2) I had to borrow money to help start the business, but we were lucky because we also had some outside capital to put into the business. These days it can be really hard to persuade banks to lend money to people who want to start a company, so we were fortunate. It was fairly easy to set up the business, because we had a very clear idea of what we wanted to do. The problem was, all our preconceptions ( 預想 ) about what it would be like to run a business were wrong.
We made lots of mistakes, and we almost went bankrupt (破產的 ) at the beginning. At one point, we only had two students in the school.
(3) Far too long! We lost money for the first four years and, as I was saying, we nearly went out of business. It took quite a long time to start making profit. The best thing we did, though, was that we hired some really good people to work for us. In fact, some of those people are still working for us,24 years later. Now we're doing well, but it was very risky at first.
(4) One is financial constraint ( 約束) , It can be very tough. Think all small businesses have cash flow problems -- it often takes a long time to get paid by your customers. The second big problem is marketing. It takes a lot of funds to market your business, and you have to get your name known and build a reputation. But the biggest challenge is managing the people. All businesses are about people, and you have to learn how to deal with all kinds of people – and I think we've been extremely good at getting the best of our staff.
23. Paragraph 1 __________
24. Paragraph 2 __________
25. Paragraph 3 __________
26. Paragraph 4 __________
A. Strategies in expanding a small business
B. Right people to run a business
C. Time-consuming experience of being successful
D. Challenges of running a business
E. Difficulties in starting the business
F. Reasons for working for oneself
27. If you made a bad decision as a boss, you had __________.
28. The difficult thing to start a business is to persuade banks __________.
29. If you hire the right people, you'll probably be able __________.
30. Besides financial and marketing challenges, you must know how __________.
A. to lose your house
B. to manage your employees
C. to keep independent
D. to lend you money
E. to take the responsibility for it
F. to make profit
答案與解析
23.F。題幹：第一段的主要內容是__________。第一段沒有明顯的主題句，主要論述了自己為什麼想要為自己而工作，諸如做決定的自由、創新的`空間、獲得讚揚以及獲得利潤等，所以F(為自己而工作的原因)是正確答案。
24.E。題幹：第二段的主要內容是__________。第二段沒有明顯的主題句，主要討論了開始做生意麵臨的資金問題以及所犯的錯誤，故E(生意起步時遇到的困難)是正確答案，其中start a business是關鍵詞。
25.C。題幹：第三段的主要內容是__________。第三段的主題句為首句，即要花費很長的時間，後面的句子提到他們花了很長時間之後才開始盈利，故C(成功所需的耗費時間的經歷)是正確答案。
26.D。題幹：第四段的主要內容是__________。第四段沒有明顯的主題句，從one，the secondbig problem以及the biggest challenge等詞可知本段主要描述了做生意過程中遇到的一些問題和挑戰，故D(做生意麵臨的挑戰)是正確答案。
27.E。題幹：如果作為老闆你做了錯誤的決定，那麼你將不得不__________。按照出題順序與段落順序一致的原則，利用make a bad decision可以定位到第一段的倒數第二句“I was also happy to carry the can and take the blame ifthings went wrong”，意為“如果事情出錯了，我也樂意承擔責任和過失”，所以答案為E(自己負責)，其中carry the can為固定短語，意為“代人受過，負責任”，take the blame意為“負責任，擔不是”，與選項中的take responsibility for(承擔責任)為近義詞。
28.D。題幹：生意起步的困難就是說服銀行__________。利用題幹關鍵詞start a business與persuade bank可以定位到第二段第二句，可知對那些想要開公司的人而言，說服銀行借錢給他們是很困難的，所以該題答案為D(借給你錢)。
29.F。題幹：如果你僱傭到了適合的人，那麼你就能__________。利用題幹關鍵詞right people可以定位到第三段，可知他們花了很長時問才開始盈利，這其中最棒的事情就是他們僱傭到了合適的人，所以答案為F(盈利)。
30.B。題幹：除了財務和營銷的挑戰，你必須懂得如何__________。利用題幹關鍵詞financial和marketing可以定位到最後一段，其中提到了三個問題，財務問題、營銷問題以及管理員工的問題，結合語境可知B(管理員工)是正確答案。
