主题段落阅读系列之商务管理
段落来自剑14 test2passage3
why companies should welcome disorderE段:What's more,recent studies show that orderactually has diminishing returns. Order doesincrease productivity to a certain extent, buteventually the usefulness of the process oforganisation, and the benefit it yields, reduce untilthe point where any further increase in orderreduces productivity. Some argue that in abusiness, if the cost of formally structuringsomething outweighs the benefit of doing it, thenthat thing ought not to be formally structured.lnstead, the resources involved can be better usedelsewhere.
文章背景:文章讲解了科学管理的两种不同方法。首先讨论0种方式:有秩序的管理(organization)以及这种方式的局限性。然后讨论第二种方式:无秩序(disorder)以及它的局限性。
背景知识:边际效益递减
词汇:
diminish v.减少yield vt.出产,放弃outweigh v.比...重要
长难句:
Order does increase productivity to a certainextent,but eventually the usefulness of theprocess of organisation, and the benefit it yields,reduce until the point where any further increasein order reduces productivity.
重点:but连接并列句
中文翻译:有序在一定程度上提高生产力,但是最终组织过程的有用性和它带来的好处会减少,指导有秩序会降低生产能力
段落结构:
首句提出主旨,有序的方法带来的回报是递减的。第二句和第三句通过对比的方式突出这种方式缺点大于优点。
段落考察重点:
主旨
本段涉及考题:小标题
ix. Evidence that certain approach can have moredisadvantages than advantages
解题思路
标题中出现advantage与disadvantage,证明该段内容有优缺点的正反面描写。同时more... than...结构表明,整段主要内容偏向负向,缺点更明显。然后根据原文主旨句中diminishing returns(逐渐缩小的优势)证明该段重点偏负向。同时细节论证时使用的转折词but,对比词outweigh等,确认该段同时涉及了正反两方面的对比。因此与标题符合。