2000年5月考古題 第五篇 Q48

[molecular]

According to sociologists, there are several different ways in which a person may become recognized as the leader of a social group in the United States. In the family traditional cultural patterns confer leadership on one or both of the parents. In other cases, such as friendship groups, one or more persons may gradually emerge as leaders, although there is no formal process of selection. In larger groups, leaders are usually
chosen formally through election or recruitment .Although leaders are often thought to be people with unusual personal ability,decades of research have failed to produce consistent evidence that there is any category of "natural leaders." It seems that there is no set of personal qualities that all leaders have in common; rather, virtually any person may be recognized as a leader if the person has qualities that meet the needs of that particular group.
Furthermore, although it is commonly supposed that social groups have a single leader, research suggests that there are typically two different leadership roles that are held by
different individuals. Instrumental leadership is leadership that emphasizes the completion of tasks by a social group. Group members look to instrumental leaders to "get things done." Expressive leadership, on the other hand, is leadership that emphasizes the collective well-beings of a social group's members. Expressive leaders are less concerned with the overall goals of the group than with providing emotional support to group members and attempting to minimize tension and conflict among them. Group members expect expressive leaders to maintain stable relationships within the group and provide support to individual members.
Instrumental leaders are likely to have a rather secondary relationship to other group members. They give others and may discipline group members who inhibit attainment of the group's goals. Expressive leaders cultivate a more personal or primary relationship to others in the group. They offer sympathy when someone experiences difficulties or is subjected to discipline, are quick to lighten a serious moment with humor, and try to resolve issues that threaten to divide the group. As the difference in these two roles suggest, expressive leaders generally receive more personal affection from group members; instrumental leaders, if they are successful in promoting group goals, may enjoy a more distant respect.

48.A "secondary relationship" mentioned in line 27 between a leader and the members of a group could best be characterized as
(A) distant
(B) enthusiastic
(C) unreliable
(D) personal

我有兩份答案, 一份寫(A)一份寫(D), 哪一個才對呢?

還有, 紅字部分的"subjected to displine"是什麼意思? 我知道subjected to 是從屬的意思, 但在這裡好像解不通?

Thanks

[micki]

push

[StanleyHuang]

我覺得答案應該是 (A) distant，從文章的最後一句看來的。
Instrumental leader會處罰人，所以跟member之間的關係自然比較冷淡，所以 (D) 的答案應該是錯的。

至於subject to ，這裏的subject 是動詞，有遭受，蒙受的意思。
所以 be subjected to displine 就是指會被處罰~~

[molecular]

我是覺得這裡的secondary用的我不太理解, 是"secondary relationship"已經成為一個約定成俗的片語嘛? 還是相對應於"expressive leader"來說, 算是"secondary"呢 ?

感謝Stanley Huang's reply!!

[StanleyHuang]

我是覺得這裡的secondary用的我不太理解, 是"secondary relationship"已經成為一個約定成俗的片語嘛? 還是相對應於"expressive leader"來說, 算是"secondary"呢 ?

Primary / Secondary relationship 應該是社會學的名詞吧，實際的定義可能還是要請專家來說明~~
雖然我們不是專家，不過還是能從文章中找到線索。例如 最後一段有一句是Expressive leaders cultivate a more personal or primary relationship to others in the group.
我們可以推測，primary == personal，指的應該就是比較親密的關係。
相對的，secondary 指的就是比較疏遠的關係，所以答案應該是 distant 沒錯。

[molecular]

哇!! 這樣就好清楚喲!!
Thanks