When things go wrong in a business，an employer may get angry.He may shout，“Stop making mistakes.Get your act together.”

　　Or，if the employer is calmer，he may say，“Let us get our act together.”

　　Either way，the meaning is the same.Getting your act together is getting organized.In business，it usually means to develop a calm and orderly plan of an action.

　　It is difficult to tell exactly where the saying began.Perhaps one of the actors was nervous and made a lot of mistakes.The director may have said，“Calm down，now.Get your act together.”

　　Word expert James Rogers says the expression was common by the late 1970s.He says

　　The Manchester Guardian used it in 1978.The newspaper said a reform policy required that the British government get its act together.

　　Now，this expression is heard often when officials of a company meet.One company even calls its yearly report，“Getting Our Act Together”．

　　【语篇解读】　本文是一篇说明文，讲述get your act together“有条理地筹划”这个短语在商务中的应用和起源等。

　　1．Paragraph 1 is written mainly to ________.

　　A．tell us the Japanese woman's English is poor

　　B．lead to the subject of the whole passage

　　C．tell us it is important to grasp spoken English

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