对外经济贸易大学英语学院《861综合英语》历年考研真题及详解.pdf

2007年对外经济贸易大学英语学院861综合英语考研真题及详解Part One Topic Sentences（20 points） Complete the text by writing in the blank a topic sentence for the paragraph. Write your a
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wer Sheet. Earlier, we described as ‘infernally difficult’ the task of writing minutes that not only record decisio
but also summarize the gist of the discussion during a meeting. We know the frustratio
: you have to try to follow, to make notes on, and then to summarize the rambling repetitive, often irrelevant, and sometimes incoherent utterances of committee membe
. We have yet to find anyone who responds happily to a request to ‘just take the minutes’! (1)___________________. The secretary’s job should be to listen to what is being said, to extract the essence of each utterance, and to record as much as he or she thinks will give a true and adequate impression of each speaker’s contribution. A full participant in the meeting should be doing more than this. His/her job is not only to listen carefully, and to extract the essence of each utterance; it is also to evaluate each utterance, to formulate complementary or contradictory contributio
, and to express them coherently at appropriate moments. It is impossible to fulfill both the secretarial role and the full participatory role at the same time. So we urge you to decline to be minute-taker if you are supposed to be a full participant in the meeting. It is also difficult to sift valuable points from redundancies and irrelevances. We regret that we know of no magic method or formula for doing this. And we know of no sure way of e
uring that you do not offend some committee membe
by reporting more of someone else’s views than you report of thei
. One tip we can offer is that, when you write the minutes, you avoid simply reflecting the sequence and length of contributio
from each member. It is probable that the notes you make will be in chronological order, and will reflect roughly the amount said by each member. When you come to write the min