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In the university Mr. Tang majored in______.A.ChineseB.EnglishC.international operationD.j

In the university Mr. Tang majored in______.

A.Chinese

B.English

C.international operation

D.journalism

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第1题
Section ADirections: In this section, you will hear 8 short conversations and 2 long conve

Section A

Directions: In this section, you will hear 8 short conversations and 2 long conversations. At the end of each conversation, one or more questions will be asked about what was said. Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken only once. After each question there will be a pause. During the pause, you must read the four choices marked A, B, C and D, and decide which is the best answer.

听力原文:Mr I'm going to see Jim. We need to discuss today's lecture.

W: He lives far away. Next time you should both go to your place after a lecture.

Q: Which of the following is certainly true?

(12)

A.The man and woman study the same course.

B.Jim lives nearer to the university than the man.

C.The man lives nearer to the university than Jim.

D.The man and woman live together.

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第2题
听力原文: (27[D])Two rail companies were fined a total of £325,000 yesterday for "an unsaf

听力原文: (27[D])Two rail companies were fined a total of £325,000 yesterday for "an unsafe system of work practices" that led to the death of a 22-year-old student.

Michael Mungovan, studying at Brunel University, was working a night shift with a track maintenance crew near Vauxhall station, south London, in October 2004, when he was struck from behind by an empty train and killed.

(28[A])The court was told that Mr Mungovan had been given only minimum training. He had worked a few shifts, but never on a live running line.

Why were two rail companies fined?

A.Because they asked young students to work at night.

B.Because their train was not safe.

C.Because they hired college students illegally.

D.Because their work practice system was unsafe.

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第3题
听力原文:(Knock, knock...) M: Come in. W: Good morning, Mr Brown. M: Oh, come in, Mary.

听力原文:(Knock, knock...) M: Come in. W: Good morning, Mr Brown. M: Oh, come in, Mary. Ive been expecting you. Take a seat. W: Thanks. M: And what can I do for you? W: Well, I was thinking about taking a year off after we finish school this summer, and I wanted some advice. M: I see. You mean putting off going to university for a year? W: Thats right. Ive been offered a place at London University, but what Id really like to do is take a year out first — do something different, maybe go abroad. M: So were you thinking of getting some sort of job, or travelling around? I mean, is your main aim to earn some money, or to do something else? Or do you want to do a bit of both? W: Id really like to travel — but I dont have any money. But Ive heard of an organisation called Peterson International — and thats what I want to ask you about. Do you know anything about it? M: Sure. Its a charity and its aimed very much at young people like you, and what they do is to get teams of young people to work together on various projects all over the world—environment projects, community projects, that sort of thing. W: Mum, it sounds great. Is it just English people on the projects? M: No, theyre international teams. Youd be working with quite a variety of people. Questions 13 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard. 13. When does Mary want to take a year off? 14. What projects does Peterson International carry out? 15. Where do the people in the Peterson International teams come from?13.

A.International children"s projects.

B.Social and environmental projects.

C.Projects for people with no money.

D.Projects involving sports and language.

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第4题
Computers and electronic communicationsare allowing many people to use their homes asoffic

Computers and electronic communications

are allowing many people to use their homes as

offices. And offices will never disappear entirely. 【S1】______

Instead of the office of the future may become 【S2】______

more like home.

American managers whom want to get more 【S3】______

out of their white-collar workforce will be in for

a shock if we seek advice from Franc Becker, a 【S4】______

professor at Cornell University who studies the

pattern of office work. His advice is: companies

need to devote more office space to create places 【S5】______

like good-tended living rooms, where employees 【S6】______

can sit around in comfort and chat.

Mr Becket is one of a group of academics

and consultants tried to make companies more 【S7】______

productive by linking new office technology to

better understanding of how employees work. 【S8】______

The forecasts of a decade ago—which computers 【S9】______

would increase office productivity, reduce

white-collar payrolls and help the remaining staff

to work better has proved much too hopeful. 【S10】______

【S1】

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第5题
SECTION BINTERVIEWDirections: In this section you will hear everything ONCE ONLY. Listen c

SECTION B INTERVIEW

Directions: In this section you will hear everything ONCE ONLY. Listen carefully and then answer the questions that follow. Questions 1 to 5 are based on an interview. At the end of the interview you will be given 10 seconds to answer each of the following five questions.

Now listen to the interview.

听力原文:Mr. Swift: You've done a very good job for a first letter.

Mr. Sun: Thanks. But you' ye marked some lines on the page.

Mr. Swift: They don't mean that something is wrong about your grammar. I mean that, maybe they can be improved in the light of Western writing habits.

Mr. Sun: Can you show me how?

Mr Swift: Of course. For example, some things arch' t clear enough. Now look here. Your sentence about graduate school is confusing.

Mr Sun: Why? "I left the Northwestern Electronic Technology Institute in the year 1998."

Mr. Swift: Well, it' s not clear whether you dropped out or whether you completed your studies there when you used the word "left".

Mr Sun: Of course I completed my studies.

Mr Swift: Then make it clear. Another point. You referred to this institute here as an "Institute", here as a "college" and still here as a "university", What on earth is it?

Mr Sun: I see your point.

Mr Swift: Now. this one. You said. "May ! take the liberty to introduce myself to you?"

Mr Sun: Isn't it polite to say so?

Mr Swift: Yes, but we probably wouldn' t write like this be cause you have already taken the liberty, so why ask permission now?

Mr Sun: I wrote according to my Chinese standards.

Mr Swift: In our country it' s more polite and appropriate to sweep clean extraneous material ,fancy sentences, and extra adjectives and adverbs.

Mr Sun: I don't quite understand why that's more courteous.

Mr Swift: Well. Suppose that I' m the one you addressed to. I' m sitting behind my desk preparing a lecture for the postgraduates next week. All around my desk are piles of notes and references. Now and then a publisher has called in to know the progress of the book for correction. The executive board has called for my arrangement of next year' s research fund as well as my intention for next year' s postgraduate enrollment. My car is to be taken out of the garage. I have to go to the hospital to receive an annual examination at 2:00 in the afternoon. I shall remember to meet my friends in the airport at 4:00 in the afternoon. There are some students waiting outside of my office...

Mr Sun: OK, OK, I get our point. Then you get my mail among other things of the same quality.

Mr Swift: You see it now.

Mr Sun: Well, maybe I shall forget the whole thing.

Mr Swift: No, no. Not at all. You just want to make things as easy as possible for your addressee. You need tell him immediately the purpose of your letter, that is, that you are applying for a fellowship. Then he has a context in which to judge the rest of the in formation you supply.

Mr Sun: You are quite right.

Mr Swift: Then he wants the rest of the information in a form. that makes it fast and easy for him to digest.

Mr Sun: Are you suggesting that I send a resume with the letter?

Mr Swift: That is most welcome.

Mr Sun: OK. Thanks a lot for your advice.

Mr Swift: You' re welcome. See you tomorrow.

Mr Sun: See you.

Mr. Swift has marked some lines on the page because ______.

A.he thought Mr. Sun has written the letter well

B.there is something wrong about the grammer

C.they can be improved according to western culture

D.these are not polite ways of expression

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第6题
SECTION BINTERVIEWDirections: In this section you will hear everything ONCE ONLY. Listen c

SECTION B INTERVIEW

Directions: In this section you will hear everything ONCE ONLY. Listen carefully and then answer the questions that follow. Questions 1 to 5 are based on an interview. At the end of the interview you will be given 10 seconds to answer each of the following five questions.

Now listen to the interview.

听力原文:Mr. Swift: You've done a very good job for a first letter.

Mr. Sun: Thanks. But you've marked some lines oil the page.

Mr. Swift: They don't mean that something is wrong about your grammar. I mean that, maybe they can be improved in the light of Western writing habits.

Mr. Sun: Can you show me how?

Mr Swift: Of course. For example, some things aren't clear enough. Now look here. Your sentence about graduate school is confusing.

Mr Sun: Why? "I left the Northwestern Electronic Technology Institute in the year 1998."

Mr. Swift: Well, it's not clear whether you dropped out or whether you completed your studies there when you used the word "left".

Mr Sun: Of course I completed my studies.

Mr Swift: Then make it clear. Another point. You referred to this institute here as an "Institute", here as a "college" and still here as a "university", What on earth is it?

Mr Sun: I see your point.

Mr Swift: Now, this one. You said. "May I take the liberty to introduce myself to you?"

Mr Sun: Isn't it polite to say so?

Mr Swift: Yes, but we probably wouldn't write like this be- cause you have already taken the liberty, so why ask permission now?

Mr Sun: I wrote according to my Chinese standards.

Mr Swift: In our country it's more polite and appropriate to sweep clean extraneous material, fancy sentences, and extra adjectives and adverbs.

Mr Sun: I don't quite understand why that's more courteous.

Mr Swift: Well. Suppose that I’m the one you addressed to. I’m sitting behind my desk preparing a lecture for the postgraduates next week. All around my desk are piles of notes and references. Now and then a publisher has called in to know the progress of the; book for correction. The executive board has called for my arrangement of next year's research fund as well as my intention for next year's postgraduate enrollment. My car is to be taken out of the garage. I have to go to the hospital to receive an annual examination at 2; 00 in the afternoon. I shall remember to meet my friends in the airport at 4:00 in the afternoon. There are some students waiting outside of my office...

Mr Sun: OK, OK, I get our point. Then you get my mail among other things of the same quality.

Mr Swift: You see it now.

Mr Sun: Well, maybe I shall forget the whole thing.

Mr Swifl: No, no. Not at all. You just want to make things as easy as possible for your addressee. You need tell him immediately the purpose of your letter, that is, that you are applying for a fellowship. Then he has a context in which to judge the rest of the in- formation you supply.

Mr Sun: You are quite right.

Mr Swift: Then he wants tile rest of the information in a form. that makes it fast and easy for him to digest.

Mr Sun: Are you suggesting that I send a resume with the letter?

Mr Swift: That is most welcome.

Mr Sun: OK. Thanks a lot for your advice.

Mr Swift: You're welcome. See you tomorrow.

Mr Sun: See you.

Mr. Swift has marked some lines on the page because______.

A.he thought Mr. Sun has written the letter well

B.there is something wrong about the grammer

C.they can be improved according to western culture

D.these are not polite ways of expression

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第7题
The decline of civility and good manners may be worrying people more than crime, according
to Gentility Recalled, edited by Digby Anderson, which laments the breakdown of traditional codes that once regulated social conduct. It criticises the fact that "manners" are scorned as repressive and outdated.

The result, according to Mr Anderson -- director of the Social Affairs Unit, an independent think-tank -- is a society characterised by rudeness: loutish behaviour on the streets, jostling in crowds, impolite shop assistants and bad-tempered drivers.

Mr Anderson says the cumulative effect of these -- apparently trivial, but often offensive -- is to make everyday life uneasy, unpredictable and unpleasant. As they are encountered far more often than crime, they can cause more anxiety than crime.

When people lament the disintegration of law and order, he argues, what they generally mean is order, as manifested by courteous forms of social contact. Meanwhile, attempts to re-establish restraint and self-control through "politically correct" rules are artificial.

The book has contributions from 12 academics in disciplines ranging from medicine to sociology and charts what it Calls the "coarsening" of Britain. Old-fashioned terms such as "gentleman" and "lady" have lost all meaningful resonance and need to be re- evaluated, it says. Rachel Trickett, honorary fellow and former principal of St Hugh's College, Oxford, says that the notion of a "lady" protects women rather than demeaning them.

Feminism and demands for equality have blurred the distinctions between the sexes, creating situations where men are able to dominate women because of their more aggressive and forceful natures, she says. "Women, without some code of deference or respect, become increasingly victims."

Caroline Moore, the first woman fellow of Peterhouse, Cambridge, points out that "gentleman" is now used only with irony or derision.

"The popular view of a gentleman is poised somewhere between the imbecile parasite and the villainous one. between Woosteresque chinless wonders, and those heartless capitalist toffs who are.., the stock-in-trade of television."

She argues that the concept is neither class-bound nor rigid; conventions of gentlemanly behaviour enable a man to act naturally as an individual within shared assumptions while taking his place in society.

"Politeness is no constraint, precisely because the manners ... are no 'code' but a language, rich, flexible, restrained and infinitely subtle."

For Anthony O'Hear, professor of philosophy at the University of Bradford, manners are closely associated with the different forms of behaviour appropriate to age and status. They curb both the impetuosity of youth and the bitterness of old age.

Egalitarianism, he says, has led to people failing to act their age. "We have vice chancellors with earrings, aristocrats as hippies.., the trendy vicar on his motorbike."

Dr Athena Leoussi, sociology lecturer at Reading University, bemoans the deliberate neglect by people of their sartorial appearance.

Dress, she says, is the outward expression of attitudes and aspirations. The ubiquitousness of jeans "displays a utilitarian attitude" that has "led to the cultural impoverishment of everyday life".

Dr Leoussi says that while clothes used to be seen as a means of concealing taboo forces of sexuality and violence, certain fashions -- such as leather jackets -- have the opposite effect.

Dr Bruce Charlton, a lecturer in public health medicine in Newcastle upon Tyne, takes issue with the excessive informality of relations between professionals such as doctors and bank managers, and their clients. He says this has. eroded the distance and respect necessary in such relationships. For Tristam Engelhardt, professor of medicine in Houston, Texas, says manners are bound to morals.A.it leads to more crime in society.

B.people view manners as old-fashioned.

C.rudeness on the street cannot be stemmed out.

D.it can seriously affect our daily life.

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第8题
One thing that distinguishes the online world from the real one is that it is very easy to
find things. To find a copy of The Economist in print, one has to go to a news-stand, which may or may not carry it. Finding it online, though, is a different proposition. Just go to Google, type in "economist" and you will be instantly directed to economist.com. Though it is difficult to remember now, this was not always the case. Indeed, until Google, now the world's most popular search engine, came on to the scene in September 1998, it was not the case at all. As in the physical world, searching online was a hit-or-miss affair.

Google was vastly better than anything that had come before: so much better, in fact, that it changed the way many people use the web. Almost overnight, it made the web far more useful, particularly for nonspecialist users, many of whom now regard Google as the internet's front door. The recent fuss over Google's stock market flotation obscures its far wider social significance: few technologies, after all, are so influential that their names become used as verbs.

Google began in 1998 as an academic research project by Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page, who were then graduate students at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California. It was not the first search engine, of course. Existing search engines were able to scan or "crawl" a large portion of the web, build an index, and then find pages that matched particular words. But they were less good at presenting those pages, which might number in the hundreds of thousands, in a useful way.

Mr Brin's and Mr Page's accomplishment was to devise a way to sort the results by determining which pages were likely to be most relevant. They did so using a mathematical recipe, or algorithm, called PageRank. This algorithm is at the heart of Google's success, distinguishing it from all previous search engines and accounting for its apparently magical ability to find the most useful web pages.

Untangling the web

PageRank works by analysing the structure of the web itself. Each of its billions of pages can link to other pages, and can also, in turn, be linked to. Mr Brin and Mr Page reasoned that if a page was linked to many other pages, it was likely to be important. Furthermore, if the pages that linked to a page were important, then that page was even more likely to be important. There is, of course, an inherent circularity to this formula--the importance of one page depends on the importance of pages that link to it, the importance of which depends in turn on the importance of pages that link to them. But using some mathematical tricks, this circularity can be resolved, and each page can be given a score that reflects its importance.

The simplest way to calculate the score for each page is to perform. a repeating or "iterative" calculation (see article). To start with, all pages are given the same score. Then each link from one page to another is counted as a "vote" for the destination page. Each page's score is recalculated by adding up the contribution from each incoming link, which is simply the score of the linking page divided by the number of outgoing links on that page. (Each page's score is thus shared out among the pages it links to.)

Once all the scores have been recalculated, the process is repeated using the new scores, until the scores settle down and stop changing (in mathematical jargon, the calculation "converges"). The final scores can then be used to rank search results: pages that match a particular-set of search terms are displayed in order of descending score, so that the page deemed most important appears at the top of the list.

We can infer from the 1st paragragh that by "hit-or-miss" it is meant ______.

A.before Google, searching online was impossible

B.before Google, searching online lacked accuracy

C.before Google, searching online was difficult

D.Google is easy to use

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第9题
How do you teach managers to manage? Henry Mintzberg, a professor of management at McGill
University in Montreal, has long held a contrary view to that proposed by most business schools. In this constantly stimulating book he divides his answer into two parts: first, he argues that the traditional qualification, the Masters of Business Administration (MBA), is the wrong way-he says it "prepares people to manage nothing". Then he expounds what he believes is the right way: an imprecise mix of personal reflection and the sharing of experience.

Mr Mintzberg finds fault with the emphasis that many MBA programs place on frenetic case studies which encourage students to come up with rapid answers based on meagre data. But more than that, he criticizes them for their concentration on dry analysis. Such courses, he says, enable their graduates to "speak convincingly in a group of 40 to 90 people", and make them believe they can leapfrog over experience. That, though, is not the sum total of what is required to manage a complex commercial organization.

Synthesis, not analysis, argues Mr Mintzberg, "is the very essence of management". On several occasions he cites Robert McNamara, once president of the Ford Motor Company and a United States secretary of defense in the 1960s, as the archetypal MBA, a man who thought that even in Vietnam "generic analysis could substitute for situational knowledge". More recently, the qualification has been thrown into deeper disrepute by the heavy dependence of companies such as Enron on MBA recruits. Its former chief executive Jeffrey Skilling, currently awaiting trial on 36 charges of fraud and insider trading, liked to boast that he came in the top 5% of his MBA class at the Harvard Business School.

And yet, if the MBA is so bad at teaching management, how come America has far more successful businesses than Europe and Japan, areas of the world that are significantly less enthusiastic about such methods of learning? Leaving aside the unprovable rejoinder that American firms would have done even better without the MBA, Mr Mintzberg argues that any list of America's most admired corporate leaders is heavily loaded with people who don't have the qualification: Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Jack Welch, Michael Dell and Andy Grove, to name but a few. The fact that some 40% of the bosses of America's biggest companies today have an MBA is, he claims, largely due to the fact that the system is self-perpetuating. "Enabling Harvard to place so many people at the top is the fact that Harvard already has so many people at the top."

Mr Mintzberg is not alone these days in questioning the value of the traditional MBA. Leading consultants such as McKinsey and Mercer are spreading their recruitment net much more widely. Mercer's London office says that one year's in-house training enables young graduates to "run circles round newly minted MBAs". In its February issue, the Harvard Business Review (no less) said that "an arts degree is now perhaps the hottest credential in the world of business", with corporate recruiters trawling places such as the Rhode Island School of Design.

"Managers not MBAs" throws a stone into the often complacent world of management education. It should be required reading for anyone who has the qualification, wants one, or just wonders what all the fuss is about.

What's the topic of this passage?

A.How to teach managers to manage.

B.MBAs are not all proper managers.

C.Mr. Mintzberg's research on MBAs.

D.MBA study is a good way to cultivate managers.

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第10题
One thing that distinguishes the online world from the real one is that it is very easy to
find things. To find a copy of The Economist in print, one has to go to a news-stand, which may or may not carry it. Finding it online, though, is a different proposition. Just go to Google, type in "economist" and you will be instantly directed to economist.com. Though it is difficult to remember now, this was not always the case. Indeed, until Google, now the world's most popular search engine, came on to the scene in September 1998, it was not the case at all. As in the physical world, searching online was a hit-or-miss affair.

Google was vastly better than anything that had come before: so much better, in fact, that it changed the way many people use the web. Almost overnight, it made the web far more useful, particularly for non- specialist users, many of whom now regard Google as the internet's front door. The recent fuss over Google's stock market flotation obscures its far wider social significance: few technologies, after all, are so influential that their names become used as verbs.

Google began in 1998 as an academic research project by Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page, who were then graduate students at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California. It was not the first search engine, of course. Existing search engines were able to scan or "crawl" a large portion of the web, build an index, and then find pages that matched particular words. But they were less good at presenting those pages, which might number in the hundreds of thousands, in a useful way.

Mr Brin's and Mr Page's accomplishment was to devise a way to sort the results by determining which pages were likely to be most relevant. They did so using a mathematical recipe, or algorithm, called PageRank. This algorithm is at the heart of Google's success, distinguishing it from all previous search engines and accounting for its apparently magical ability to find the most useful web pages.

Untangling the web

PageRank works by analysing the structure of the web itself. Each of its billions of pages can link to other pages, and can also, in turn, be linked to. Mr Brin and Mr Page reasoned that if a page was linked to many other pages, it was likely to be important. Furthermore, if the pages that linked to a page were important, then that page was even. more likely to be important. There is, of course, an inherent circularity to this formula—the importance of one page depends on the importance of pages that link to it, the importance of which depends in turn on the importance of pages that link to them. But using some mathematical tricks, this circularity can be resolved, and each page can be given a score that reflects its importance.

The simplest way to calculate the score for each page is to perform. a repeating or "iterative" calculation I see article). To start with, all pages are given the same score. Then each link from one page to another is counted as a "vote" for the destination page. Each page's score is recalculated by adding up the contribution from each incoming link, which is simply the score of the linking page divided by the number of outgoing links on that page. (Each page's score is thus shared out among the pages it links to.)

Once all the scores have been recalculated, the process is repeated using the new scores, until the scores settle down and stop changing (in mathematical jargon, the calculation "converges". The final scores can then be used to rank search results: pages that match a particular set of search terms are displayed in order of. descending score, so that the page deemed most important appears at the top of the list.

We can infer from the 1st paragraph that by "hit-or-miss" it is meant ______.

A.before Google, searching online was .impossible

B.before Google, searching online lacked accuracy

C.before Google, searching online was difficult

D.Google is easy to use

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第11题
Section A – This ONE question is compulsory and MUST be attemptedIn the city of Philo, the

Section A – This ONE question is compulsory and MUST be attempted

In the city of Philo, the closure of a large factory released a large amount of land very close to the city centre which was bought by the Philo local government authority. As an area of high unemployment due to closures of heavy industry including shipbuilding and coal mining, Philo had an unemployment rate higher than the national average. As such, the local government authority was always keen to see new investments which would create high quality jobs. Although the former factory land had a potentially high commercial value if sold to housing developers, the local government authority offered the local university the chance to buy it for a favourable rate due to what it could offer the town as a whole. It was hope that the university would buy the land, creating a new development called ‘Science First’ on the old factory site which would in turn create 500 jobs.

As a city, Philo was well known for its science and engineering history, with many innovations, inventions and science developments having been made in the city going back over 200 years. Philo University saw investment in science as strategic to its future and as a key part of its competitive advantage. The Philo local government authority discussed the possibility of developing the former factory site with the university. After a series of meetings between the university and the local government authority, the university bought the land, as co-owners with the local government authority, with the full support of the local authority for building laboratories and related buildings on the site. They agreed the name Science First for the development and jointly formed a company of the same name for the investment.

It was planned to build four large science laboratories on the site for medical, pharmacological and technology research. Science First Company also wanted to develop a cluster of science-based businesses on the site and offered discounted rents as well as negotiating lower local taxes, to attract these business to the site. One of these new businesses, Topscience Company, had received international attention because of a key breakthrough it had made in medical research. Topscience was very concerned about how its building would appear on promotional photographs and it noticed that just beyond the science park, and within a few metres of its new building, were a number of blocks of poor quality social housing, owned by the Philo local government authority and accommodating rental tenants. Topscience asked if the local government authority would require Science First Company to re-landscape the area around the flats and knock them down in favour of green spaces more in keeping, in Topscience’s opinion, with the image of a science park. They suggested they would not be able to locate to the Science First development in Philo unless this was done.

Anxious not to be seen to be doing anything to hinder the park’s development, the Philo local government authority agreed to Topscience’s demands and issued a notice to quit for all of the local residents affected by the potential demolition of the flats. Upon hearing of the plan to demolish the flats, the head of the local residents’ association, Ann Tang, was outraged. She criticised the Philo local government authority for a lack of fairness and transparency in their dealings with the residents. She said that the local authority was so concerned about the science park’s development that it did not care about social housing residents and that this was a betrayal of the authority’s ethical responsibilities. Ann Tang also said that if the flats were demolished, there would be a loss of a ‘close-knit, effective and cohesive’ community of people who did not deserve to lose their homes in this way, all for the sake of a science development in which they, the local residents, had no say and did not vote for.

Ann Tang also acquired some figures which showed that, in order to invest in the Science First Company, the local government authority had to take budgeted funding from other services including the cancellation of a proposed new public library in the area where Ann Tang lives. Local residents, who were excited about the new library development, planned to use the new library as a lending library, as a place to study, as a café where people could meet and enjoy time with friends, and as a place for other services to be provided including ‘mums and toddlers’, ‘unemployment clubs’ and art classes. The cancellation of this library development would also mean that the ten jobs in the library would not now be created.

In seeking to address the challenges from the residents’ association and others, the local government authority asked the finance director of Science First Company, accountant Kathy Wong, to produce a balanced assessment of the contribution of the Science First development to the city and the region. The local government authority, co-owners of Science First Company, insisted that she produce a balanced assessment which could also be published for the benefit of local residents. As a director of the development, however, she felt she ought to produce a report which clearly showed the benefits of the park to the city of Philo. Accordingly, she produced a report which concentrated on the benefits to Philo of the Science First development, in terms of the creation of jobs, marginal revenues and improved reputation for both the university and the city. Kathy Wong’s report concluded that the park was of substantial benefit and should be supported by the local government authority, by the university and by local residents, who, she argued, should understand the strategic benefits of the development to the city.

Ann Tang criticised Kathy Wong for not taking into account the costs to residents and other local services of the Science First development. She said that the true social cost of the development was negative because it threatened to destroy homes and it would entail the cancellation of the proposed library. It would also have a negative effect on local infrastructure, including the diversion of roads, footpaths and bus routes.

The Philo local government authority, as a democratic body, is controlled by elected representatives from a range of different political parties, each of whom represents a portion of the total city population. Despite their political differences, the majority of elected representatives strongly supported the Science First development.

Some of the elected representatives on the Philo local government authority decided that it was right to consider the various stakeholders in the Science First development. Some elected representatives, especially those representing residents around the development, wanted to minimise the damage to local communities. They decided that the three main stakeholders to be considered were the Science First Company, the residents’ association and the potential library users.

The head of the Philo local government authority, Simon Forfeit, sought to address the concerns of the elected representatives in a meeting of the elected members in which he set out the case for why the Philo local government authority had so strongly supported the Science First development. He said he recognised that in allowing and encouraging the Science First development, it was clear there would be local problems to address, but that the strategic interests of the city of Philo required this development. The city’s reputation as a science city would, in his view, be enhanced by the Science First development. He argued that public sector organisations had complicated objective-setting processes which have to prioritise some interests over others. He said that he ‘can’t please everybody all the time and in any planning decision there are winners and losers.’

Mr Forfeit said that a local government authority had many obligations and had to serve the interests of local taxpayers who fund its work, and also the people who use its services. At the same time, it had to act in the long-term strategic interests of the city, which was why it so strongly supported the Science First development. The quality of jobs attracted by the science site, being highly skilled and highly paid, meant that the local government authority had no choice but to support and invest in the development even though some of the effects on local residents might be perceived as negative. In addition to the 500 new jobs, which will be advertised locally, Mr Forfeit said that the site would also provide space for expansion of the businesses which locate to the site. Mr Forfeit said that in addition to Topscience, other companies attracted to the site included companies producing electric vehicles, advanced medical solutions and other companies in growth sectors.

Required:

(a) (i) Analyse the stakeholder claims of Science First Company, the residents’ association and the potential library users, using the Mendelow matrix to plot these three stakeholders in the Science First development. (9 marks)

(ii) Explain how the potential library users and residents’ association might attempt to increase their influence as stakeholders in the Science First development. (4 marks)

(b) Critically evaluate the contribution to the public interest of the new Science First development to the city of Philo. (10 marks)

(c) Explain the role of accountants in society and criticise Science First Company’s finance director, Kathy Wong, in her assessment of the Science First development. (8 marks)

(d) The head of the local authority was criticised by the residents’ association for lacking transparency and fairness in its dealings with the residents.

Required:

Draft a statement on behalf of the head of the Philo local government authority, for their website, which covers the following issues:

(i) Explanations of transparency and fairness and their importance in public sector governance. (6 marks)

(ii) An analysis of the complexities of performance measurement for public sector organisations and an explanation of how the 3Es model can be a used for this purpose. (9 marks)

Professional marks will be awarded in part (d) for flow, tone, persuasiveness and structure of the statement. (4 marks)

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