2015年旅游管理硕士英语阅读专训（三）
随着我国旅游业的发展，旅游管理硕士的需求和热度也不断增加。旅游管理硕士旨在培养具有责任感和职业精神并且理论和技能并存、有国际化思维的人才，因此希望每一位考生认识到这一点并努力备考。新东方在线编辑为大家提供各种复习资料以及备考指导。下文是和大家分享的2015年旅游管理硕士英语阅读专训，并且附有新的词汇点拨，希望对大家有所帮助。2015年旅游管理硕士英语阅读专训（三）
【TEXT】
San set out to improve efficiency at the shirt factory but, as we find out
later in this unit, his plans turned out not quite as he had expected.
Sam Adams, Industrial Engineer
If you ask my mother how I happened to become an industrial engineer,
she'll tell you that I have always been one.
She means that I have always wanted everything to be well organized and
neat. When I was still in elementary school, I liked to keep my socks in the
upper left-hand drawer of my bureau, my underwear in the upper right drawer,
shirts in the middle drawer, and pants, neatly folded, in the bottom drawer.
In fact, I was the efficiency expert for the whole family. I used to
organize my father's tools, my mother's kitchen utensils, my sister's
boyfriends.
I needed to be efficient. I wanted to be well organized. For me, there was
a place for everything and everything was always in its place. These qualities
gave me a good foundation for a career in industrial engineering.
Unfortunately, I was also a bit bossy and I wasn't a very good listener.
You'll see what I mean when I tell you about the first project I ever did after
I finished my bachelor's degree at the university.
After graduation I returned home to my small town in Indiana. I didn't have
a job yet. Mr. Hobbs, a friend of my father's, owned a small shirt factory in
town. Within the past five years it had grown from twenty to eighty workers. Mr.
Hobbs was worried that his plant was getting too big and inefficient, so he
asked me to come in on a short-term basis as a consultant.
I went to the plant and spent about a week looking around and making notes.
I was really amazed at what I saw.
Most curious of all, there was no quality control whatsoever. No one
inspected the final product of the factory. As a result some of the shirts that
were put in boxes for shipment were missing one or two buttons, the collar, even
a sleeve sometimes!
The working conditions were poor. The tables where the workers sat were
very high and uncomfortable. Except for a half hour at lunchtime, there were no
breaks in the day to relieve the boring work. There was no music. The walls of
the workrooms were a dull gray color. I was amazed that the workers hadn't gone
on strike.
Furthermore, the work flow was irregular. There was one especially
absent-minded young man in the assembly line who sewed on buttons. After a while
I recognized him as "Big Jim," who used to sit behind me in math class in high
school. He was very slow and all the shifts were held up at his position.
Workers beyond him in line on his shift had to wait with nothing to do;
therefore, a great deal of time and efficiency were lost as Big Jim daydreamed
while he worked. All week I wondered why he wasn't fired.
After I made observations for a week, Mr. Hobbs asked me for an oral report
of my findings. I covered my major points by telling him the following:
"If you have a quality control inspection, you will greatly improve your
finished product."
"If the assembly line is redesigned, a smooth work flow can be achieved and
time and energy can be saved."
"If you decrease the height of the worktables, the machine operators will
work more comfortably."
"If the management provides pleasant background music and beautifies the
dull setting, the factory will be much more productive."
"If the workers have a fifteen-minute coffee break in the morning and
afternoon, they will be more efficient."
"If excellent work results in frequent pay increases or promotions, the
workers will have greater incentive to produce."
Mr. Hobbs thanked me for this report and told me he would talk over my
suggestions with his brother, the co-owner and manager of the factory. "We're
interested in progress here," he said. "We want to keep up with the times."
He also gave me a check for $ 100 and a box of shirts with his
compliments.
【NEW WORDS】
efficiency
n. the state or quality of being efficient 效率
industrial
a. of industry 工业的
neat
a. orderly and clean 整洁的
elementary
a. of or for beginners 初等的，初级的
sock
n. 短袜
drawer
n. 抽屉
bureau
n. a chest of drawers for bedroom use 衣柜
underwear
n. 内衣
pants
n. trousers
expert
n. a person with special knowledge or skill 专家，能手
kitchen
n. room used for cooking 厨房
utensil
n. any tool or container used in the house, esp. for cooking 用具，器皿
quality
n. the degree of goodness which a thing or a person possesses 质量;品质
foundation
n. 基础
career
n. profession; way of making a living 职业;生涯
engineering
n. 工程学;管理
unfortunately
ad. 不幸的是;遗憾的是
bossy
a. always telling other people what to do and how to do it, like a boss
爱指挥人的;专横的
project
n. a piece of work; a big plan 项目;方案
bachelor
n. a person who had the first university degree 学士
graduation
n. completion of an educational course 毕业
graduate
vi.
short-term
a. involving or lasting a short period of time 短期的
basis
n. 基础;根据
consultant
n. a person who gives professional or technical advice 顾问
consult
v.
amaze
vt. fill with great surprise or wonder 使大为惊讶，使惊愕
curious
a. strange 奇怪的
whatsoever
a. of any kind, at all 任何的，丝毫的
inspect
vt. examine 检查
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