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policies,
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channels
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of organization, and fairly rigid procedures. In the small enterprise you have, moreover, immediate effectiveness in a very small area. You can see the effect of your work and of your decisions right away, once you are a little above the ground floor. In the large enterprise even the man at the top is only part of a big machine. To be sure, his actions affect a
much greater area than the actions and decisions of the man in the small organization, but his effectiveness is remote, indirect, and difficult to
see at first sight. In a small and even in a middle-sized business you are normally exposed to all kinds of experiences, and expected to do a great many things without too much help or guidance. In the large organization you are normally taught one thing thoroughly. In the small one the danger is of becoming a jack-of-all-trades and master of none. In the large one it is of becoming the man who knows more and more about less and less.
There is one other important thing to consider: do you get a deep sense of satisfaction from being a member of a well-known organization--General Motors, the Bell Telephone System, the government? Or is it more important to you to be a well-known and important figure within your own small pond? There is a basic difference between the satisfaction that comes from being a member of a large, powerful, and generally known organization, and the one that comes from being a member of a family; between impersonal grandeur and personal
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often much too personal
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intimacy; between life in a small office on the top floor of a skyscraper and life in a crossroads gas station.
21.It can be inferred from the first paragraph that in a large enterprise ____.
A. new technology is employed quickly
B. all people work efficiently
C. one's effectiveness is felt very slowly
D. one can get promotion easily
22.Generally speaking, the person working in a large enterprise ____.
A. has to deal with a great many things
B. knows how everything is going on around him
C. acquires increasingly thorough knowledge within a limited field
D. feels more secure than the one employed by a small enterprise
23.In the second paragraph, the writer mentions
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your own small pond
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to refer to ____.
A. a top leader in a larger enterprise
B. a manager of a small enterprise
C. a large enterprise
D. a small enterprise
24.According to the information provided in the passage, if you are interested in personal intimacy, you should work ____.
A. for General Motors
B. for the Bell Telephone System
C. in a department in the government
D. in a crossroads gas station
25.The writer of this passage ____.
A. compares the large and the small enterprises objectively
B. obviously prefers to work for a large enterprise
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