短文理解2：In early 1994, when MarkAndreessen was just 23 years old

Changing technology and markets have stimulated the team approach tomanagement. Inflation, resource scarcity, reduced personnel levels and budgetcuts have all underscore the need for better coordination in organizations.Team management provides for this coordination. Team management calls for newskills if personnel potential is to be fully realized. Although a team may be composed ofknowledgeable people, they must learn new ways of relating and working togetherto solve cross-functional problems. When teams consist to be experiencedemployees from hierarchical organizations, who have been condition totraditional organizational culture. Cooperation may not occur naturally, itmainly to be created. Furthermore, the issue is not just how the team canfunction more effectively, but how it integrates with the overall organization,all society that it supposes it serves. A group of individuals is notautomatically a team. Therefore, team building may be necessary in order toimprove the group’s performance. Casey, an expert in this field, suggests thatthe cooperation process within teams must be organized, promoted and managed.He believes the team corporation results when members go beyond theirindividual capabilities, beyond what each is used to being and doing. Together,the team may then produce something new, unique and superior to that of any onemember. For this to happen, he suggests the multi-cultural managers exhibitunderstanding of their own and others’ cultural influences and limitations.They should also cultivate such skills as toleration of ambiguity, persistenceand patience, as well as assertedness. If a team manager exemplifies suchqualities, then the team as a whole would be better able to realize theirpotential and achieve their objectives.

Q 16: What should teammembers do to fully realize their potential?

Q 17: What needs to beconsidered for effective team management?

Q 18: What conclusion can wedraw from what Casey says?

W: Charles, among other things, you regarded as one of the America’sgreat masters of the blues. A musical idiom does essentially about loss,particularly the loss of romantic love. Why does love die?

M: People often get into love affairs because they have unrealisticexpectations about somebody. Then when the person doesn’t turn out to be whothey thought he or she was, they start thinking maybe I can change him or her.That kind of thinking is a mistake. Because when the dust settles, people aregoing to be pretty much what they are. It’s a rare thing for anybody to be ableto change who they really are. And this creates a lot of problems.

W: At 62, you continue to spend a large percentage of your lifetouring. What appeals to you about life on the road?

M: Music, I don’t especially love life on the road, but I figure if youare lucky enough to be able to do what you truly love doing, you’ve got theultimate of life.

W: What’s the most widely-held misconception about the life of a famousmusician?

M: People think it’s all glamour. Actually we have the same troublesthey do. Playing music doesn’t mean life treats you any better.

W: How do you feel about being recognized everywhere you go?

M: You think I be used to it by now. But I still find it fascinating.You go to a little town in Japan, where nobody speaks English, yet they knowyou on side and know all your music. I’m still amazed by the love peopleexpress for me and by music.

Q12: What does the man sayabout most people when they get into love affairs?

Q13: What does the man sayabout himself as a singer on the road most of his life?

Q14: What do most peoplethink of the life of a famous musician?

Q15: How does the man feelwhenever he was recognized by his fans?

M: Hello Jane.

W: Hello Paul.

M: Please coming. I’m just getting ready to go home. Susan is expectingme for dinner. I wanted to be on time for a change.

W: Look, I’m terribly sorry to drop in this time on Friday, Paul, butit is rather important.

M: That’s OK. What’s the problem?

W: Well, Paul, I won’t keep you long. You see there is a problem withthe exchange rates. The Indian Rupee has taken a fall on the foreign exchangemarket. You see there is being a sharp increase in Indian’s balance of paymentdeficit.

M: I see. How serious, isn’t it?

W: Well, as you know, there have been reports of unrest India, and theprospects for the Rupee look pretty gloomy.

M: And that’s going to affect us, as if we didn’t have enough problemson our hands.

W: So I thought it would be wise to take out forward exchange cover toprotect our position on the outstanding contract.

M: Just a minute. Forward exchange cover, now what does that meanexactly?

W: Well, it means that JO notes enters into a commitment to sell IndianRupees at the present rate.

M: I see. And how will that benefit us?

W: Well, JO notes wouldn’t lose out if Indian Rupee falls further.

M: What will it cost, Jane?

W: A small percentage, about 1% and that can be built into the price ofthe bike.

M: Well, I don’t suppose there is much choice. All right Jane, let’sput it into action.

Q9: What do we learn aboutthe man’s daily life?

Q10: Why did the woman cometo see the man?

Q11: What makes the womanworry about the Indian Rupee?

W: The hotel called, saying that because of the scheduling there, theywon’t be are able to cater for our banquet.

M: I know an Indian restaurant on the high street that offers a specialdiner for groups. The food is excellent, and the room is large enough toaccommodate us.

Q: What does the man suggest they do?

W: Why didn’t Rod get a pay raise?

M: The boss just isn’t convinced that his work attitude warranted it.She said she saw him by the coffee machine more often than at his desk.

Q: What are the speakers talking about?

W: We have a full load of goods that needs to be delivered. But wecan’t get a container ship anyway.

M: That’s always being a problem in this port. The facilities here arenever able to meet our needs.

Q: What are the speakers talking about?

W: I’m considering having my office redecorated, the furniture is oldand the paint is chipping.

M: I’ll give you my sister-in-law’s number. She just graduated from aninterior designing academy, and will give a free estimate.

Q: What is the woman considering?

W: The printing of this dictionary is so small. I can’t read theexplanations at all.

M: Let me get my magnify glass. I know I just can’t do without it.

Q: What does the man mean?

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W: Do you know where we keep flash disks and printing paper?

M: They should be in the cabinet if there are any. That’s where we keepall of our office supplies.

Q: what does the woman mean?

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W: I was talking to Mary the other day, and she mentioned that your newconsulting firm is doing really well.

M: Yes, business paced up much faster than we anticipated. We now haveover 200 clients.

Q: What do we learn about the man from the conversation?