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完形填空（共20小题：每小题1.5分，满分30分）
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Ricardo Semler became boss of his father's business Semco in Brazil at the age of 21. Ricardo worked like a(an)        man, from 7：30 am to midnight every day. One afternoon, while he was visiting a factory in New York, he        . The doctor told him if he         like that, he would find a new home in hospital. Semler got the         . He changed the way he      . In fact, he changed the ways his       worked, too.
He let his workers take more         so that they would be the ones worrying when things went wrong. He          them to set their own salaries，      their own working hours and he cut all the jobs he thought were          , like receptionists and secretaries.
He changed the office：       walls, they have plants at Semco, so bosses can't       themselves away from everyone else. And the workers are        to decorate their work space as they want.
It sounds perfect，but does it        ? The answer is in the         ：in the last six years, Semco's revenues（收入）have        from $35 million to $212 million. The company has gone from eight hundred employees to 3,000. Why?
Semler says it's because of "peer pressure" which makes employees work       for everyone else. If someone isn't doing his job          , the other workers will not allow the          to continue. In other words，Ricardo treats his workers like adults rather than children, and expects them to act like responsible          . And they do.

A．interesting

B．independent

C．mad

D．great

A．fell down

B．gave up

C．went out

D．got off

A．changed

B．continued

C．dropped

D．went

A．sound

B．way

C．sense

D．message

A．walked

B．talked

C．worked

D．treated

A．family

B．workers

C．friends

D．children

A．responsibility

B．money

C．power

D．expectation

A．persuaded

B．forced

C．forbade

D．allowed

A．decide

B．want

C．understand

D．try

A．unnecessary

B．unpopular

C．stupid

D．difficult

A．above all

B．instead of

C．apart from

D．except for

A．put

B．get

C．shut

D．take

A．willing

B．free

C．tired

D．eager

A．develop

B．grow

C．happen

D．work

A．eyes

B．numbers

C．persons

D．dollars

A．grown

B．dropped

C．beaten

D．made

A．straight

B．slow

C．hard

D．seldom

A．perfect

B．wrong

C．well

D．late

A．trouble

B．situation

C．pressure

D．suffering

A．children

B．teenagers

C．professors

D．adults

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