漏斗图（funnel plots）

You are managing the construction of luxury condominiums in one of the last available plots of city land. On this project, the owner is focused on timely performance and has provided contract incentives that will reward you and your company if the job is complete early. However, the International Brotherhood of Commode Installs is ready to strike for higher wages, and an environmental group is concerned about adverse impacts on the full-breasted warbler resulting from the placement of satellite dishes on the balconies. On this project, you need to （）.

A:find appropriate resolutions to resolve differences between or among stakeholders B:put the owner's requirements at the top of the list as you resolve stakeholder differences C:carefully manage all communication and make status information available only on a need-to-know basis D:build the condominiums according to the specifications and not worry about any other stakeholder

You are managing the construction of luxury condominiums in one of the last available plots of city land. On this project, the owner is focused on timely performance and has provided contract incentives that will reward you and your company if the job is complete early. However, the International Brotherhood of Commode Installs is ready to strike for higher wages, and an environmental group is concerned about adverse impacts on the full-breasted warbler resulting from the placement of satellite dishes on the balconies. On this project, you need to ______ .

A:find appropriate resolutions to resolve differences between or among stakeholders B:put the owner’s requirements at the top of the list as you resolve stakeholder differences C:carefully manage all communication and make status information available only on a need-to-know basis D:build the condominiums according to the specifications and not worry about any other stakeholder

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During the whole of a dull, dark and soundless day in the, autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country, and at length found myself, as the shades of the evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher. Thus Edgar Allan Poe opened his story of the fall of the House of Usher in 1839. In this beautifully crafted sentence he captured so much that is essential to the horror story: darkness, ominous solitude, foreboding calm, apprehension and uncertainty, and a deep feeling of melancholy that could soon turn to fear.
Many kinds of fiction are self – explanatory: mysteries, Westerns, love stories, spy thrillers, and science fiction define themselves by the terms used to name them. The horror story is less easily defined, perhaps because other types of fiction so often use the trappings of terror to enhance their plots. Charles Dickens used the vehicle of an old-fashioned ghost story to tell A Christmas Carol, but that book is not a honor story. Nor does a Grimm brothers fairy tale such as Hansen and Grate with its child-devouring witch, belong to the genre.
The nature of the horror story is. best indicated by the title of the 1980s television series Tales from the Dark Side. Human beings have always acknowledged that there is evil in the world and a dark side to human nature that cannot be explained except perhaps in religious terms. This evil may be imagined as having an almost unlimited power to inspire anxiety, fear, dread, and terror in addition to doing actual physical and mental harm.
In the tale of horror quite ordinary people are confronted by something unknown and fearful, which can be neither understood nor explained in reasonable terms. It is the emphasis on the unreasonable that lies at the heart of horror stories. This kind of literature arose in the 18th century at the start of a movement called Romanticism. The movement was a reaction against a rational, orderly world in which humanity was basically good and everything could be explained scientifically. The literary type that inspired the horror story is Gothic fiction, tales of evil, often set in sinister medieval surroundings. This original kind of horror fiction has persisted to the present.

A:they are easy to understand B:they are meant for ordinary readers C:they often use horror to develop their plots D:their categories show what they are about

George Bernard Shaw(1856—1950)was born in Dublin, Ireland. At the age of 14, after graduating from middle school, Shaw was put into a job as clerk in a land agent’s office. At 20 he went to London where he remained jobless for 9 years, devoting much time to self-education. Meantime, Shaw took an active part in the socialist movement. A contemporary of Shaw’s thus wrote of him: "I used to be a daily frequenter of the British Museum Reading Room. Even more assiduous in his attendance was a young man. ...My curiosity was piqued by the odd conjunction of his subjects of research. Day after day for weeks he had before him two books—Karl Marx’s ’Das Kapital’ (in French), and an orchestral score(管弦乐乐谱) of ’Tristan and Isolde’."
Though Shaw admitted Marx’s great influence on him, he failed to grasp the necessity of a revolutionary reconstruction of the world. A strong influence was exercised on Shaw by the Fabian society, the English reformist organization.
In the early period of his literary career, Shaw wrote some novels, "An Unsocial Socialist" and others, in which he developed the traditions of critical realism, bitterly criticizing the stupidity, snobbishness and petty tyranny of the middle class. In the nineties Shaw turned to the theatre, first working as a dramatic critic, then writing plays for the stage. His role in the development of dramaturgy is very great. Shaw was an enemy of "art for art’s sake". He wrote, "for art’s sake I will not face the toil of writing a sentence." He used the stage to criticize the evils of capitalism. He wrote 51 plays in total, the important ones including "Widower’s Houses", "Saint Joan" and "The Apple Cart". In his plays Shaw laid bare the gross injustice and utter inhumanity of the bourgeois society. This he achieved not so much by the structures of plots in his plays as by the brilliant dialogues between the characters. His exposure of capitalist society is very significant and it places Shaw among the most important representatives of critical realism in modern English literature.
In his plays, Shaw achieved the exposure of capitalist society ______.

A:by either the structures of plots or the brilliant dialogues between the characters B:by the brilliant dialogues between the characters better than by the structures of plots C:by both the brilliant plots and dialogues equally D:by the brilliant dialogues between the characters instead of by the structures of plots

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A:by either the structures of plots or the brilliant dialogues between the characters B:by the brilliant dialogues between the characters better than by the structures of plots C:by both the brilliant plots and dialogues equally D:by the brilliant dialogues between the characters instead of by the structures of plots

-- What do you think of Harry Potter and Philosopher’ s Stone
--Fantastic. Steven Kloves （） each character in the movie impressive through lively dialogues and fascinating plots.

A:makes B:would make C:made D:had made