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In recent years, many companies have expanded globally. __11__ this globalization trend, more and more employees are working abroad in managerial positions or as part of a multicultural team. Although it is common nowadays for staff to work abroad to gain experience, many people have difficulty __12__ to a new culture. Statistically, the failure rate in US multinationals is __13__ to be as high as 30 %. One of the examples concerns a German manager of IBM who took up a position as product manager in England. He found that at lunchtime, many members of staff went to the pub. He stopped them right away and said, “It is not good for efficiency. There is no way we would do that in Germany.” The German manager’s mistake was that he hadn’t __14__ the cultural differences. IBM had a firm rule about drinking during working hours. But, he didn’t understand that staff in other countries might be more flexible in applying the rule. When managers work in foreign countries, they may find it difficult to understand the behavior of their employees. __15__, they may find that the techniques which worked at home are not effective in their new workplace. Hence, it becomes important for them to develop cross-cultural awareness in the international workplace.
In recent years, many companies have expanded globally. __11__ this globalization trend, more and more employees are working abroad in managerial positions or as part of a multicultural team. Although it is common nowadays for staff to work abroad to gain experience, many people have difficulty __12__ to a new culture. Statistically, the failure rate in US multinationals is __13__ to be as high as 30 %. One of the examples concerns a German manager of IBM who took up a position as product manager in England. He found that at lunchtime, many members of staff went to the pub. He stopped them right away and said, “It is not good for efficiency. There is no way we would do that in Germany.” The German manager’s mistake was that he hadn’t __14__ the cultural differences. IBM had a firm rule about drinking during working hours. But, he didn’t understand that staff in other countries might be more flexible in applying the rule. When managers work in foreign countries, they may find it difficult to understand the behavior of their employees. __15__, they may find that the techniques which worked at home are not effective in their new workplace. Hence, it becomes important for them to develop cross-cultural awareness in the international workplace.
Choose the best answer for the blank in the passage.
- A adapt
- B adapted
- C adapting
- D to adapt
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請觀察空格前的單字 difficulty，如果我們假設在它之後其實隱藏了一個介係詞 in，那麼根據英文慣用法，在介係詞後面的動詞通常需要做什麼樣的形式變化呢？
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噢，恭喜你，基本題沒失分。
別高興太早，這不過是統測的「送分題」，你答對是理所當然。這只能說明你沒笨到家，至少還能辨識出這些送分陷阱。
- 觀念檢視：這種題目就是在考你是不是個「正常」的考生，有沒有掌握「have difficulty + (in) + V-ing」這種用爛了的固定句型。介係詞 $in$ 雖然常被省略，但後面那個動詞，請你務必把它乖乖地保持動名詞形式。這點都搞不定，你還想考高分？像
have trouble或have a hard time也是一樣的道理，記起來，別再犯低級錯誤。
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