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[灌水]passage 58 逻辑真绕
这篇文章太绕了，相当于一个超级BF题。现翻译如下(大概意思而已)：
为了提高performance，很多公司引进CPMCS。然而，至少有一种研究显示这种研究表明不会有期待的效果。在这研究中，研究者问被monitored职员和他们的主管，对生产率的评估如何影响主管对职员的等级评价。unmonitored clerical无一例外认为客户服务是最重要因素，而monitored职员及其主管认为生产率最重要。这个发现显示：monitored职员生产率和rating有关系。然而，评估rating和单个的性能因素的关系显示：主管gave 相当多weight到attendance, accuracy, and indications of customer satisfaction.

desired effect:通过提高productivity来提高overall performance.
不会达到该effect的原因:productivity太低，会损害rating.但是 到了够用的程度就为止了，不会继续提高rating.

这道题真的很绕，我特别想知道，等级评定和公司productivity是怎么联系上的？还有他们调查的问题和computer monitor有关系吗？我想了半天也没有搞明白，请大家指点

Passage 58 (58/63)

In an attempt to improve the overall performance of clerical workers, many companies have introduced computerized performance monitoring and control systems (CPMCS) that record and report a worker’s computer-driven activities. /However, at least one study has shown that such monitoring may not be having the desired effect. In the study, researchers asked monitored clerical workers and their supervisors how assessments of productivity affected supervisors’ ratings of workers’ performance. In contrast to unmonitored workers doing the same work, who（ without exception ）identified the most important element in their jobs as customer service, the monitored workers and their supervisors all responded that productivity was the critical factor in assigning ratings.分工的等级。 This finding suggested that there should have been a strong correlation between a monitored worker’s productivity and the overall rating the worker received./ However, measures of the relationship between overall rating and individual elements of performance clearly supported the conclusion that supervisors gave considerable weight to criteria such as attendance, accuracy, and indications of customer satisfaction.

It is possible that productivity may be a “hygiene factor,” that is, if it is too low, it will hurt the overall rating. But the evidence suggests that beyond the point at which productivity becomes “good enough,” higher productivity per se is unlikely to improve a rating.

superviser’s rating/assigning ratings/overall rating

3.d   Which of the following, if true, would most clearly have supported the conclusion referred to in lines 19-21?

(A) Ratings of productivity correlated highly with ratings of both accuracy and attendance.

(B) Electronic monitoring greatly increased productivity.

(C) Most supervisors based overall ratings of performance on measures of productivity alone.

(D) Overall ratings of performance correlated more highly with measures of productivity than the researchers expected.（E）

(E) Overall ratings of performance correlated more highly with measures of accuracy than with measures of productivity.

请问accuracy是怎么和productivity联系上的？根据文中found后的内容，我就发现overall rating和productivity是有联系的。

4.e   According to the passage, a “hygiene factor” (lines 2223) is an aspect of a worker’s performance that

(A) has no effect on the rating of a worker’s performance

(B) is so basic to performance that it is assumed to be adequate for all workers

(C) is given less importance than it deserves in rating a worker’s performance

(D) is not likely to affect a worker’s rating unless it is judged to be inadequate（D）

(E) is important primarily because of the effect it has on a worker’s rating

D我选的时候犹豫过，但仔细一想，它的意思是说，生产率不可能影响一个员工的rating除非生产率不合适。换句话说；生产率要是太离谱，它就要影响员工的rating。

但文中的意思是；生产率在某一个点之内都是有影响的，越高越好，高出这个点就没有影响了。就是说他inadequate的时候，是不影响的。

所以正好和文中矛盾。所以我选了E。

请大家指点

题3. 回原文定位： This finding suggested that there should have been a strong correlation between a monitored worker’s productivity and the overall rating the worker received.However, measures of the relationship between overall rating and individual elements of performance clearly supported the conclusion that supervisors gave considerable weight to criteria such as attendance, accuracy, and indications of customer satisfaction。

本来productivity和overall rating是有关系的。 然而，supervisors更注重于criteria such as accuracy. 也就是说accuracy更胜productivity一筹。文中的considerable 起到了很重要的作用。

解该题要注意文章的语气变化。

题4. 这里的inadequate应该指的是if it is too low.

if it is too low, i will affect rating.

谢谢醋醋妹妹，题三我明白了。可是题四根据你的理解，还是有问题可以再继续探讨一下的

1.你的意思是：它不可能影响到rating，除非productivity太低，就是说它太低才会影响到rating。但根据文中最后两句话，它在一定范畴之内是随着productivity的提高而提高的。

2.inadequate 是指数据不充分，不适合的意思吧，应该不是太低的意思。

请继续讨论呀

It is possible that productivity may be a “hygiene factor,” that is, if it is too low, it will hurt the overall rating. But the evidence suggests that beyond the point at which productivity becomes “good enough,” higher productivity per se is unlikely to improve a rating.

这句话的意思是说,如果productivity过低,将影响rating.但是,如果它到了一定的程度(good enough)以后,它再升高将不会提高rating.

(D) is not likely to affect a worker’s rating unless it is judged to be inadequate的意思是:除非productivity过低,它将不会影响到rating. 跟原文意思相符.

另外,我也有问题要问笨笨MM和醋醋MM(感觉你们的名字还挺配套的),就是这篇文章的第一题

1.     According to the passage, before the final results of the study were known, which of the following seemed likely?

(A) That workers with the highest productivity would also be the most accurate

(B) That workers who initially achieved high productivity ratings would continue to do so consistently

(C) That the highest performance ratings would be achieved by workers with the highest productivity

(D) That the most productive workers would be those whose supervisors claimed to value productivity（C）

(E) That supervisors who claimed to value productivity would place equal value on customer satisfaction

怎么也想不通是怎么选出的这个答案.我看了OG,它说是根据原文中:This finding suggested that there should have been a strong correlation between a monitored worker’s productivity and the overall rating the worker received.得出的,可是这句话指的是monitored的工人,而选项C中可没有做这样的限定,变成了所有的工人.怎么能推出这样的结论呢?

我做这道题是根据however来做的，加上排除法。题目说在founding知道之前，就是however前面的内容，公司为了提高performance 引进cpmcs。

还有就是因为在试验结果出来之前大家都是持老观点的，试验结果出来之后都是为了说明productivity不是越高越好的，这个新观点的，所以原来的观点肯定与新观点相反，所以我选了C。

我还是比较依赖理解的，希望我的罗里八索对caterpillar有帮助。

我想你是想的太细了，按你的想法，题目就没有选项可以选了。没有monited worker。

我想你退一步想想，只要答案能表明productivy和rating的关系就是符合原文的意思了

这篇文章是很绕的，其实主要是说monitor有没有用，但后来又把重心转到productivity和rating上的，我想monitor可能按作者的意图就是提供productivity的tool 吧。这样理解会不会好点，不然我也没辄啦

ok,第一题的定位是this finding suggested that 那句。因为suggest的关键是productivity 和overall rating 成正比。A中的accurate与原文无关，B只说了一个方面，且continue to do so也无关，D也只说了一个方面，E是conclusion的内容。

不知道这样说明白了没有，其实找到KEY WORDS然后排除无关选项也很重要的。