Reading answers with explanations

IELTS · Part 3 · Cambridge 14 — Test 2

Why companies should welcome disorder: Reading answers

Answers to questions 27–40 (14 in all), each with why it is right.

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A Organisation is big business.Whether it is of our lives - all those inboxes and calendars - or how companies are structured, a multi-billion dollar industry helps to meet this need. We have more strategies for time management, project management and self-organisation than at any other time in human history.We are told that we ought to organise our company, our home life, our week, our day and even our sleep, all as a means to becoming more productive.Every week, countless seminars and workshops take place around the world to tell a paying public that they ought to structure their lives in order to achieve this. This rhetoric has also crept into the thinking of business leaders and…

Answers 27–40

  1. 27

    Section A

    vi: What people are increasingly expected to do Matching headings

  2. 28

    Section B

    i: Complaints about the impact of a certain approach Matching headings

  3. 29

    Section C

    iii: Early recommendations concerning business activities Matching headings

  4. 30

    Section D

    ii: Fundamental beliefs that are in fact incorrect Matching headings

  5. 31

    Section E

    ix: Evidence that a certain approach can have more disadvantages than advantages Matching headings

  6. 32

    Section F

    vii: How to achieve outcomes that are currently impossible Matching headings

  7. 33

    Section G

    iv: Organisations that put a new approach into practice Matching headings

  8. 34

    Section H

    viii: Neither approach guarantees continuous improvement Matching headings

  9. 35

    Numerous training sessions are aimed at people who feel they are not ________ enough.

    productive Sentence completion

  10. 36

    Being organised appeals to people who regard themselves as ________.

    perfectionists Sentence completion

  11. 37

    Many people feel _______ with aspects of their work.

    dissatisfied Sentence completion

  12. 38

    Both businesses and people aim at order without really considering its value.

    TRUE True / False / Not Given

  13. 39

    Innovation is most successful if the people involved have distinct roles.

    FALSE True / False / Not Given

  14. 40

    Google was inspired to adopt flexibility by the success of General Electric.

    NOT GIVEN True / False / Not Given

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