Instead of ignoring or envying successful students, I made it my mission to ________
A、prune
B、raid
C、investigate
D、delegate
A、prune
B、raid
C、investigate
D、delegate
A.it allowed
B.is it allowed
C.allowed
D.allowed it
The brain is capable of ignoring pain message if __________to concentrate on other activities.
A. allowing it
B. it will allow
C. allowed it
D. it is allowed
A.considering
B.ignoring
C.highlighting
D.discarding
What can we conclude from the last paragraph?
A.Social responsibility is widely-acknowledged.
B.Smokers ignoring social environment are self-centered.
C.Going on smoking is wrong-headed.
D.Social influence on smoking is double-edged.
In the second paragraph, the author ______.
A.criticizes fathers for not taking enough responsibilities in bringing up their children
B.excuses the American writers for ignoring the difficulties of being a father
C.supports the idea that chief role of a father is to earn money for the family
D.complains about the lack of social programs to help husbands adjust themselves to being a father
Anders Moberg’s pay package—and the timing of its disclosure at a shareholder meeting last week—has confronted Ahold with a new credibility crisis as it struggles to restore confidence after the C=970m ($1 bn) scandal.
The dispute-evident in a sea of critical media comment in the Netherlands at the weekend threatens to divert management from its recovery strategy, built on significant divestments and a likely rights issue to reduce C=11bn in net debt. Units deemed unable to attain first or second position in food retail within three to five years will immediately be put up for sale.
The board’s position appears all the more delicate following comments made by Mr. Moberg to the Financial Times, in which he criticized non-executive directors for ignoring his advice to disclose his salary in May, when he agreed his contract.
Instead Ahold waited more than four months to make the announcement, on the day share-holders were asked to approve Mr. Moberg’s appointment.
“I was the one who said I liked transparency, and I had hoped [the supervisory board] had shown [the salary package] in May to avoid a situation like this,” Mr. Moberg told the FT.
As the row prompted the left-leaning Dutch Daily to call for a boycott of Ahold’s Dutch Albert Heijn supermarket chain where only last week Ahold announced 440 redundancies—it was clear the supervisory board had badly misjudged the reaction.
While Henny de Ruiter, supervisory board chairman, said the salary was a fair reflection of what a company in Ahold’s unfavorable circumstances had to pay to attract a top manager,furious investors accused it of pushing through the package regardless of investor opinion.
Furthermore, Dutch media commentators noted that the scandal at Ahold had been the trigger for the Dutch government to appoint a commission to strengthen corporate governance.
That commission has recommended a limit on executive bonuses, far below the potential two-and-a-half times annual salary that Mr. Moberg could earn.
Meanwhile, Mr. Moberg is trying to distance himself from the row and focus on strategy. He told the FT that measures had already been taken to raise its stake in the ICA-Ahold joint venture in Scandinavia.
Ahold had included in its forecasts an amount necessary to buy the shares of either of its joint venture partners, who should exercise a “put option” and sell their stake from April 2004.
第36题:The decision on Anders Moberg’s pay package has _____.
[A] incurred much criticism from the shareholders
[B] helped restore public confidence in Ahold
[C] saved the supervisory board from another crisis
[D] put pressure on the new chief executive
What does the author mean by saying that we may learn moral principles "the hard way"?
A.We reevaluate our previously held beliefs as we grow older.
B.We refute some moral principles only after we find them inconsistent.
C.We acquire a sense of right and wrong from real life lessons.
D.We act by ignoring our inherited altruistic tendencies.
In Para. 3, the author use the expression of "learn the hard way" to mean that
A.we try to reevaluate our previously held beliefs as we grow older.
B.we refute some moral principles only after we find them inconsistent.
C.we acquire a sense of right and wrong from our real life lessons.
D.we become mature through ignoring our inherited unselfish tendencies.
______ is the effort to get a general idea instead of specific facts.
A.Scanning
B.Skimming
C.Skipping
D.Surveying