To: All sales associates From: Baxter Giles, Director of Public Relations Subject: Communication guidelines Whether you are communicating with consumers in writing or on the phone, a professional 1 friendly demeanor is essential to closing the sale. Please keep the following guidelines in mind. - Respond promptly to any request for information, the same day if possible and never later than 24 hours.
- Avoid 2 communication. Keep calls to under 5 minutes, and correspondence to one page.
- To prevent embarrassing mistakes, ask a colleague to proofread a draft of important documents before sending them out.
- If a customer is calling long-distance, do not 3 them on hold or connect them to the voice mail system.
- If you cannot respond to a customer's phone inquiry, take a message, find the answer, and provide them with a response the same day.
1. (A) yet (B) so (C) still (D) however 2. (A) long (B) longly (C) length (D) lengthy 3. (A) have (B) make (C) put (D) ask 解析: 1. 依前後文意及空格前與後的兩個相對之形容詞 "professional" 「專業的」與 "friendly" 「友善的」可推斷,空格中應填入一能表「對比」意涵之連接詞。選項 (C) still 雖有「可是」、選項 (D) however 雖有「然而」之意,但二者均為「副詞」,因此不可選。選項 (B) so ( 所以 ) 雖為「 ( 對等 ) 連接詞」,但意思不通,故亦不可選。本題正確答案為 (A) yet ( 但是 ) 。 【注意, "yet" 與 "but" 皆屬「 ( 對等 ) 連接詞」 ,且意思相仿,但 "yet" 的語意比 "but" 強。】 2. 本題考正確之相關同源字。四個選項 (A) long 、 (B) longly 、 (C) length 及 (D) lengthy 皆與「長」有關: "long" 為原始形容詞,指「長的」、 "longly" 為副詞,意思是「長久地」、 "length" 是名詞,指「長度」、 "lengthy" 為形容詞,意思為「冗長的」。由於空格後之 "communication" ( 通話 ) 為名詞,故選項 (B) longly 與 (C) length 可先排除。而依前後文意,正確修飾名詞 "communication" 的形容詞應為 (D) lengthy 。 . 本題考正確之慣用語。 "put someone on hold" 為電話用語,意思是「讓某人在線上等候」,正確答案為 (C) 。【注意,在本句前一部分「條件句」中出現的 "a customer" 並非 "one customer" 「『一個』客戶」之意 ("a" 為「不定冠詞」,並不等於「數量詞」 "one") ,而有 "any customer" 「任何客戶」的意涵,且由於尚未發生,因此有可能不只一個客戶,因此其後主要子句中可用複數的 "them" 作為其「代名詞」。此乃基於「語意」之考量,而非純「語法」上之對應。 】 |