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第17讲： 阅读理解六选四专项训练 阅读六选四真题精练、考前巩固 A．Working with other cultures is not for everyone. B．One way is training, and many companies now invest substantial amounts of money to prepare people to cope with living and working in another culture. C．It used to be so easy. D．The ideal person for an overseas assignment has to be delegated when necessary. E．One way is to try and find out how aware they are of other cultures. F．They need to be able to accept other ways of doing things. How do companies decide who to send overseas? ____1____ Just find someone with the right background, ask them if they wanted to go, and that was it. So an engineer just needed to be able to offer the technical expertise required to do the job, a manager simply needed to know the right people, an accountant needed to know how the books worked and nothing else. If they could speak English, then they could probably do the job. But times are changing. More and more overseas assignments are failing. The reason? Lack of intercultural competence. Companies have discovered that finding the right person for the job is much more than simply identifying the person who could have done the job if it had been in their home country. ____2____ And this failure is more than irritating. It costs companies a lot of money to replace someone who does not fit in. So how do companies judge if someone has the right competence for a job in another country? ____3____ Are they interested in other ways of doing things? Can they see advantages and disadvantages, or only their own viewpoint? Sensitivity is a key factor too. Is the person able to deal with other ways of looking at a problem? How do they deal with authority? What about motivation? Are they willing to treat others with respect and understanding? Such questions can be answered partly by the use of questionnaires and interviews, but of course only real experience can give the final answer. So what else can a company do to make sure that a person is right for an