劍橋雅思閱讀答案解析UK companies need more effective boards of directors

劍橋雅思12 Test8 Passage3閱讀答案解析

第27題答案：iv

對應原文：A段：blame has been spread far and wide.Governments,regulators,central banks and auditors have all been in the frame.The role of bank directors and management and their widely publicised failures

答案解析：A段中提到，政府、管理者、中央銀行、審計者、銀行領導和管理都受到批評，認為他們應該為經濟危機負責。這些機構正好對應iv選項中的many external bodies，由此確定答案。

第28題答案：ii

對應原文：B段：At the simplest and most practical level,the time involved in fulfilling the demands of a board directorship has increased significantly…Furthermore,the amount of reading and preparation required for each meeting is increasing

答案解析：B段列舉了檢視所帶來的影響，一方面，完成董事會職責所需要的時間有了大幅度增長；另一方面，每次會議的閱讀和準備量也在增加。由此確定ii選項為答案。

第29題答案：vi

對應原文：C段：Often,board business is devolved to committees in order to cope with the workload,which may be more efficient but can mean that the board as a whole is less involved in fully addressing some of the most important issues.

答案解析：C段開頭提到，董事會的事務可以交給委員會來進行，這樣效率更高，但意味著董事會在解決最重要的問題上參與變少。vi選項中risk對應but轉折，take part in對應involve，solve major problems對應address important issues，由此確定答案。

第30題答案：viii

對應原文：D段：A radical solution…is the professional board,whose members would work up to three or four days a week,supported by their own dedicated staff and advisers.

答案解析：D段提出了一種解決方案，即建立專業(yè)董事會，其成員每周工作三到四天，由專業(yè)員工和顧問提供幫助。對應viii選項，改變董事會運行模式的提議，由此確定答案。

第31題答案：vii

對應原文：E段：One of the main criticisms of boards and their directors is that they do not focus sufficiently on longer-term matters

答案解析：E段開頭就提到，針對董事會及領導的主要匹配之一是他們不夠關注長遠事務。vii選項中l(wèi)ooking與focus對應，enough與sufficiently對應，ahead與longer term對應，由此確定答案。

第32題答案：i

對應原文：F段：Compensation for chief executives has become a combat zone

答案解析：原文中提到，對首席執(zhí)行官的補償的爭論一直比較激烈。i選項中disputes對應combat，financial arrangements對應compensation，senior managers對應chief executives，由此確定答案。

第33題答案：iii

對應原文：G段：Boards of companies in all sectors will need to widen their perspective to encompass these issues and this may involve a realignment of corporate goals.

答案解析：G段提到，公司所有部門的董事會都將需要拓寬視野以全面思考這些問題，這也許會牽扯到企業(yè)目標的整改。選項中能夠與之對應的只有iii。

第34題答案：YES

對應原文：A段：Following the 2008 financial meltdown…The role of bank directors and management and their widely publicised failures have been extensively picked over and examined in reports,inquiries and commentaries.

答案解析：其實這道題哪怕不去找對應原文，直接根據文章主題也可以很容易的判斷為YES。畢竟整篇文章都講的是2008年經濟危機之后，對董事會的仔細核查。

第35題答案：NOT GIVEN

對應原文：無

答案解析：原文雖然確實提到了銀行的管理失職，但并沒有將其跟其他機構進行比較，由此確定答案為NOT GIVEN。

第36題答案：NO

對應原文：C段：It is not uncommon for the audit committee meeting to last longer than the main board meeting itself

答案解析：原文中提到，董事會議往往還不如執(zhí)行功能的某個委員會開會時間長。題干中as long as necessary的描述與此相抵觸，由此判斷答案為NO。

第37題答案：NO

對應原文：C段：board business is devolved to committees…but can mean that the board as a whole is less involved in fully addressing some of the most important issues.

答案解析：根據原文描述，如果采用委員會結構的話，董事會對重大事務的參與會變少，而不是fully informed，由此確定答案為NO。

第38題答案：information

對應原文：D段：the executives had access to information that part-time non-executive directors lacked,leaving the latter unable to comprehend or anticipate the 2008 crash.

答案解析：根據2008這一年份定位到A段和D段，再根據non-executive directors鎖定D段，lack of與lack對應，根據定語從句的結構，確定答案為information。

第39題答案：financial

對應原文：E段：One of the main criticisms of boards and their directors is that they do not focus sufficiently on longer-term matters of strategy,sustainability and governance,but instead concentrate too much on short-term financial metrics.

答案解析：根據too much和short-term定位到E段的這句話。emphasis on跟concentrate同義替換，由此確定答案為financial。

第40題答案：shareholders/investors

對應原文：F段：Many would argue that this is in the interest of transparency and good governance as shareholders use their muscle in the area of pay to pressure boards to remove underperforming chief executives

答案解析：根據pay定位到F段，題干問的是，董事會必須接受誰的意見。整段話中填上去語義合適的只有shareholders或者investors，由此確定答案。

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