Đề thi tuyển sinh vào lớp 10 chuyên Tiếng Anh, THPT Chuyên Thái Nguyên năm học 2023-2024

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down. His hands were trembling. He was furious with boss in Delhi, Keith Lennox, to support him and was reats and vague promises Lennox had made. “He knows

ls g in his cars. He wondered, not for the last time, just what it

$ Position bocitio in oT India manager could of the factory, knew. How could it be so important that

$ Watch. Four o'clock.

be threatened by it? It simply didn't make sense. Dick home. He'd hag He called for his driver, Gopal, and asked to be driven enough for the day.

Dick sat gloomily in the back of the car, going over in his mind the events which had

never led up to the present crisis. How had he got himself into this impossible situation? It should

beginning

have happened, yet somehow, looking back, it seemed inevitable. Perhaps he was to believe in fate?

He had arrived three factory in Madras, India was, operated. Dick had b

years earlier to take over as general manager of Trakton's of course, only one of the many countries in which Trakton een transferred to Madras from Nigeria in fact, after a series of other

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overseas appointments. Each of the overseas factories had a general manager appointed headquarters to oversee the management of the local workforce. In India this had worked particularly well. The Indian staff was highly-trained and efficient. They were also generally easy to work with; the company's enlightened industrial relations policy had made sure of that. Salaries were higher than the average; there was a good pension scheme and generous health insurance benefits. Trakton boasted that jt had not lost a day in strikes for over fifteen years.

Dick had found his senior Indian colleagues particularly good to work with. They knew their jobs inside out and were clearly committed to the company. Many of them had been with Trakton for the whole of their working lives, starting in the factory and working their way up to become managers. They were a good team.

The only exceptions had been Visvanathan, or “Vish” as he was known, the office

manager, and his wife Molly. Molly was in charge of the Personnel Department. For

reasons Dick had only gradually understood, Vish and Molly were regarded by the rest of

the senior staff as somehow “special”. They behaved as if they had special privileges and

expected other staff to defer to them. Dick slowly realised that they controlled other staff

members through a combination of threats and promises. Given their positions, they could

make life very difficult for anyone who opposed them. Likewise, they could make life easy

for those who did what they wanted.

i is sort of behaviour happened to varying degrees in every culture

and fat pdt br Indeed, in the first few weeks after his arrival, both Vish and

Molly had been all smiles and helpfulness. They had invited Dick and his bd to

dinner too. Their newly-built house was in the fashionable, Lp SMART me sl En

Colony, close to the sea. Dick had been suitably impressed by the Te or Ls i

house, which was full of the most modern household equipment. He had half-wondered,

innocently, whether Vish had had to borrow money to pay for it all.

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