Even in traditional offices, "the lingua franca of corporate America has gotten much more emotional and much more right-brained than it was 20 years ago," said Harvard Business School professor Nancy Koehn. She started spinning off examples. "If you and I parachuted back to Fortune 500 companies in 1990, we would see much less frequent use of terms like journey, mission, passion. There were goals, there were strategies, there were objectives, but we didn't talk about energy; we didn't talk about passion."According to Nancy Koehn, office language has become _______.A. more emotionalB. more objectiveC. less energeticD. less strategic
Even in traditional offices, "the lingua franca of corporate America has gotten much more emotional and much more right-brained than it was 20 years ago," said Harvard Business School professor Nancy Koehn. She started spinning off examples. "If you and I parachuted back to Fortune 500 companies in 1990, we would see much less frequent use of terms like journey, mission, passion. There were goals, there were strategies, there were objectives, but we didn't talk about energy; we didn't talk about passion." According to Nancy Koehn, office language has become _______. A. more emotional B. more objective C. less energetic D. less strategic
题目解答
答案
我们来逐步分析这道题目。
一、题目内容理解
题目引用了哈佛商学院教授 Nancy Koehn 的一段话,大意是说:
> “即使在传统办公室中,美国企业的通用语言(lingua franca)比起20年前也变得更加情绪化(emotional)和右脑思维(right-brained)了。”
接着她举了一个例子,说如果我们穿越回1990年的《财富》500强公司,会发现像“旅程(journey)、使命(mission)、热情(passion)”这样的词使用得少得多。那时候更多是谈论“目标(goals)、战略(strategies)、目的(objectives)”,而不是“能量(energy)”或“热情(passion)”。
二、问题分析
题目问的是:
> 根据 Nancy Koehn 的说法,办公室语言已经变得 _____。
四个选项分别是:
A. 更情绪化(more emotional)
B. 更客观(more objective)
C. 更缺乏能量(less energetic)
D. 更缺乏战略性(less strategic)
三、关键句分析
关键句是:
> “the lingua franca of corporate America has gotten much more emotional and much more right-brained than it was 20 years ago”
这句话直接说明了办公室语言变得更情绪化(emotional),也更偏向右脑思维(right-brained),即更感性、更有创意、更强调情感。
后面的例子也支持这个观点,比如提到“passion”和“energy”这些词的使用频率增加,也说明语言变得更加情绪化。
四、排除错误选项
- B. more objective(更客观):与原文相反。原文说语言变得更情绪化,而不是更客观。
- C. less energetic(更缺乏能量):错误。原文提到“energy”这个词的使用变多了,说明语言变得更富有能量。
- D. less strategic(更缺乏战略性):也不正确。原文并没有说战略性的语言变少了,只是说表达方式更偏向情感和创意。
五、正确答案
✅ A. more emotional(更情绪化)
六、最终答案
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