——教学资料参考参考范本—— 【资格考试】2019最新整理--(备考辅导)考研英语阅读理解精读100篇unit29 ______年______月______日 ____________________部门 1 / 11 Unit 29 Tanna Oldfield's software company needed to establish rapport between some new hires and the firm's old guard. She says the company, which is based in Austin, Texas, wanted to do something different——to \asked her employees to step out of a plane. At 14,000 feet. Oldfield says the sky-high bonding exercise left the workers \could conquer fears about sky diving,\overcome work issues.\ Even in a climate of corporate cost-cutting, Oldfield's company （she prefers that it remain unidentified） and many other New Economy survivors continue to invest money in training sessions that do not involve blackboards, computers or conference rooms. Instead, they send their employees on increasingly elaborate, and even risky, \From white-water rafting to caving and rock climbing, corporate trainers are raising the difficulty level on challenges for the cubicle set. Hard times may even persuade some companies to loosen their purse strings. Diane Katz, who has a doctoral degree in conflict resolution, says half the clients who go on her 2 / 11 year-old Working Circle team-building exercises in Arizona are there because bosses want to reward them for good work. \who uses horse whisperers——who claim to speak to the animals, a practice popularized by Robert Redford's movie \——as facilitators on singing trail rides in the Sonoran desert （the people sing, not the horses）. After an office shake-up, Elizabeth Burg, a project coordinator for Visa U.S.A. in Foster City., Calif., staged a regatta to help employees learn how to work together in a new environment. A corporate training firm, Adventure Associates of El Cerrito, Calif., taught boating basics to Burg and 20 landlubber co-workers and then set them loose on 34-foot sailboats for a race on San Francisco Bay （with a professional skipper aboard each yacht, just in case）. \adults, we don't usually get to play in areas where we're not experts,\differently.\ After a reorganization last fall, DMR, a New Jersey-based telecommunications consulting firm, flew more than 100 employees of various ages to the Blue Ridge Mountains in Virginia for a four-and-a-half-day program run by the Outdoor Wilderness Leadership School. \ 3 / 11