公共英语四级
Bill Gates, the billionaire Microsoft chairman without a single earned university degree, is by his success raising new doubts about the worth of the business world´ s favorite academic rifle: the MBA (Master of Business Administration).
The MBA, a 20th century product, always has borne the mark of lowly commerce and greed on the tree-lined campuses ruled by purer disciplines such as philosophy and literature.
But even with the recession apparently cutting into the hiring of business school graduates,about 79,000 people were expected to receive MBAs in 1993. This is nearly 16 times the number of business graduates in 1960, a testimony to the widespread assumption that the MBA is vital for young men and women who want to run companies some day.
"If you are going into the corporate world it is still a disadvantage not to have one, " said Donald Morrison, professor of marketing and management science. "But in the last five years or so, when someone asks, ´Should I attempt to get an MBA?´ The answer a lot more is: ´It de-pends. ´ "
The success of Bill Gates and other non-MBAs, such as the late Sam Walton of Wal-Mart
Stores Inc., has helped inspire self-conscious debates on business school campuses over the worth of a business degree and whether management skills can be taught.
The Harvard Business Review printed a lively, fictional exchange of letters to dramatize com-plaints about business degree holders. The article called MBA hires "extremely disappointing" and said "MBAs want to move up too fast, they don´ t understand politics and people, and they aren´ t able to function as part of a team until their third year. But by then, they´ re out looking for other jobs. "
The problem, most participants in the debate acknowledge, is that the MBA has acquired an image of future riches and power far beyond its actual importance and usefulness.
Enrollment in business schools exploded in the 1970s and 1980s and created the assumption that no one who pursued a business career could do without one. The growth was fueled by a drive against the anti-business values of the 1960s and by the women´ s movement.
Business people who have hired or worked with MBAs say those with the degrees often know how to analyze systems but are not so skillful at motivating people. "They don´ t get a lot of grounding in the people side of the business", said James Shaffer, vice-president and principal of the Towers Pert´in Management Consulting Firm.
According to Paragraph 2，what is the general attitude towards business on campuses domi-nated by purer discir)lines?
A．Scornful．
B．Appreciative．
C．Envious．
D．Realistic．
本文首先以比尔·盖茨为例来对现在风靡世界的MBA(工商管理学硕士)的价值表示质疑，紧接着讨论了人们对MBA的看法，指出MBA实际上只是一个拥有未来财富的形象，而其重要性和实用性却并不大，获得MBA的人往往会做理论分析，而不善于利用和处理公司中的人际关系。MBA人才欠缺的正是与人打交道和激励人的本领。
答案及解析
【命题目的】此题考查考生推断作者观点态度的能力。
【解题要点】第二段中“lowly commerce”和“greed”有明显的轻视意味。A项意为“轻蔑的”，B项意为“赞赏的”，C项意为“嫉妒的”，D项意为“现实的”。
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