Question

请认真阅读下面短文，并根据所读内容在文章后表格中的空格里填入一个最恰当的单词。

注意：每个空格只填一个单词。

Measurement done right can transform your organization. It can not only show you where you are now, but can get you to wherever you want to go. Measurement is important to high performance, improvement, and, ultimately, success in business, or in any other area of human effort. Measuring what matters is more important than most things we do. Here are 5 ideas for how to become more conscious of what you can stop doing, in order to make the time for performance measurement.

1. Stop reporting measures that no one uses. Be daring—stop reporting what you know isn’t being used, and if anyone notices, use it as an opportunity to start a conversation about how to decide what is worth measuring and reporting.

2. Reduce your time in meetings and the number of meetings you attend. Meetings always take longer than they need to. The big time wasters are tangents, people arriving late and violent agreements that mistakenly sound like useful debates. Start on time, finish early and diplomatically manage the discussion. Reduce and Agree only to meetings that have a clear purpose that is aligned to your role and responsibilities. Don’t go to meetings out of obligation or interest alone.

3. Rank your main concerns and drop the bottom 10. List your tasks, both what you are doing and what you should be doing, and rank them in order of importance. Simply stop doing the bottom 10—they are likely to have consequences far less than failing to measure what matters. Design your weekly schedule to make time for measurement. Set a regular time in your diary that you block out for measurement related activities, and then put the remainder of your tasks around that. Put the big rocks (the important stuff) in first and you’ll fit more of the smaller rocks in anyway.

4.Bring up measurement in conversations and existing meetings. Don’t wait for measurement time. Use natural conversations that have even minor importance to performance and results as an opportunity to talk about measures that matter. Set yourself progress goals for choosing, creating and using measures, and reward yourself when you achieve them. You can get others to hold you accountable. Agree progress goals with your manager or colleagues or customers for choosing, creating and using measures. Set regular check in time with them to pat you on the back or face the music.

5.Save time by stopping when it’s good enough. Stop over processing whatever you do, and get clear about the point at which you’ve done what will work, and don’t waste time.

Title: The key to success is MEASUREMENT
Paragraph main idea	Supporting details
Functions of measurement	·Change 1. now and build a bright future.
·Important to high performance, improvement, and, ultimately, success in business and other fields.
Be daring or brave	Report measurements 2. by others
Reduction	3.	It may waste your time.
number of meetings	Reason	A waste of time
Way	Attend those having 4.
List	Way	·List your tasks and drop 5.
·Rank them in order of importance
·Design your weekly schedule
·Set a regular time 6.
Aim	Make useful time for reasonable
measurement
Discussion	Way	·Make use of natural conversations or 7..
·Set clear aim you can achieve and 8. when yousucceed.
·Agree 9. with your boss or colleagues or customers.
·Ensure time to check in the progress.
10.	Way	·Stop when it’s good enough.
·Know your situation well and your next plan.

Answer

1.your organization

2.having been used

3.time in meetings

4.a clear purpose

5.the bottom ten

6.in your diary

7.existing meetings

8.reward yourself

9.progress goals

10.Save time

【解析】

这是一篇说明文。文章讲述了成功的关键是衡量。详细介绍了5个建议，教你如何更清楚地意识到你可以停止做什么，以便腾出时间来进行绩效衡量。

1.

原词再现题。根据第一段中Measurement done right can transform your organization. 正确的度量可以改变你的组织。故填your organization。

2.

原词再现题。根据第二段中Be daring—stop reporting what you know isn’t being used, and if anyone notices, use it as an opportunity to start a conversation about how to decide what is worth measuring and reporting. 大胆地停止报告你知道没有被使用的东西，如果有人注意到，就利用这个机会开始讨论如何决定什么是值得衡量和报告的。故填having been used。

3.

原词再现题。根据第三段中Reduce your time in meetings and the number of meetings you attend. 减少你参加会议的时间和次数。故填time in meetings。

4.

原词再现题。根据第三段中Reduce and Agree only to meetings that have a clear purpose that is aligned to your role and responsibilities. 只在与你的角色和责任有明确目的的会议上减少和同意。故填a clear purpose。

5.

原词再现题。根据第四段中Rank your main concerns and drop the bottom 10. 把你主要关心的事情排序，然后去掉最后的10个。故填the bottom ten。

6.

原词再现题。根据第四段中Set a regular time in your diary that you block out for measurement related activities, and then put the remainder of your tasks around that. 在你的日记中设定一个固定的时间，用来测量相关的活动，然后把你剩下的任务放在那个时间。故填in your diary。

7.

原词再现题。根据第五段中Bring up measurement in conversations and existing meetings. 在对话和现有的会议中提出度量方法。故填existing meetings。

8.

原词再现题。根据第五段中Set yourself progress goals for choosing, creating and using measures, and reward yourself when you achieve them. 为自己设定进步目标，选择、制定和使用措施，并在实现后奖励自己。故填reward yourself。

9.

原词再现题。根据第五段中Agree progress goals with your manager or colleagues or customers for choosing, creating and using measures. 与你的经理、同事或客户就进度目标达成一致，以便选择、创建和使用度量。故填progress goals。

10.

原词再现题。根据最后一段中Save time by stopping when it’s good enough. 为了节省时间，可以在足够好的时候停下来。故填Save time。