银行系统招聘考试（英语）模拟试卷30
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Europe is not a gender-equality heaven. In particular, the corporate workplace will never be completely family-friendly until women are part of senior management decisions, and Europe\’s top corporate-governance positions remain overwhelmingly male. Indeed, women hold only 14 percent of positions on European corporate boards.
The Europe Union is now considering legislation to compel corporate boards to maintain a certain proportion of women—up to 60 percent. This proposed mandate was born of frustration. Last year, Europe Commission Vice President Viviane Reding issued a call to voluntary action. Reding invited corporations to sign up for gender balance goal of 40 percent female board membership. But her appeal was considered a failure: only 24companies took it up.
Do we need quotas to ensure that women can continue to climb the corporate ladder fairly as they balance work and family?
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1.In the European corporate workplace, generally________.(B)
A. women take the lead
B. men have the final say
C. corporate governance is overwhelmed
D. senior management is family-friendly
解析：细节题。根据关键词定位到第一段。倒数第二句说欧洲的高管层中男性仍然占主导地位，结合首句“欧洲并不是性，别平等的天堂”，可知答案为B项“男性有最终决策权”。A项“女性为首”和D项“高级管理如家庭般友好”与原文相反。C项是针对文章中overwhelmingly这个词出的干扰项。
2.The European Union’s intended leg islation is________.(A)
A. a reflection of gender balance
B. a reluctant choice
C. a response to Reding’s call
D. a voluntary action
解析：细节题。根据关键词定位到第二段。欧盟现在正在考虑立法来迫使董事会确保有一定比例的女性——该比例高达60％，可见这项立法是性别平等的表现，因此选A。B项中的reluctant是对“Reding’s reluctance”出的干扰项。C项“对Reding号召的反应”，Reding号召的是voluntary action。D项“志愿行动”指的是签署达到性别平等目标的协议，与题意不符。
3.According to Reding, quotas may help women________.(A)
A. get top business positions
B. see through the glass ceiling
C. balance work and family
D. anticipate legal results
解析：细节题。根据关键词定位到第四段。Reding说她不喜欢定额，但喜欢定额达到的效果，它们“开辟通往平等之路”，即提高女性在企业高管所占比例，后面的例子也验证了这一点，因此答案为A。B项“see through”虽与原文“break through”有一词之差，意思却不一样，bleak through“突破，突围”，see through“识破，看穿”。C项“平衡工作与家庭”、D项“预计法律后果”，原文没有提及。
Americans today don\’t place a very high value on intellect. Our heroes are athletes, entertainers, and entrepreneurs, not scholars. Even our schools are where we send our children to get a practical education—not to pursue knowledge for the sake of knowledge. Symptoms of pervasive anti-intellectualism in our schools aren\’t difficult to find.
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4.What do American parents expect their children to acquire in school?(C)
A. The habit of thinking independently.
B. Profound knowledge of the world.
C. Practical abilities for future career.
D. The confidence in intellectual pursuits.
解析：细节题。根据题干中的关键词定位到第一段。第三句话意为：即使学校也只是我们送孩子去接受实用教育，而不是让他们为了知识而去追求知识的地方。C项为此句中“to get a practical education”的同义改写，因此为正确答案。A项在文中没有提及。B项与原文本意恰恰相反，家长希望的是更实际些的东西，而不是真正的知识。D项过度推断，原文只提到了追求知识，而没有提到所谓的追求智慧。
5.We can learn from the text that Americans have a history of________.(A)
A. undervaluing intellect
B. favoring intellectualism
C. supporting school reform
D. suppressing native intelligence
解析：细节题。根据题干中的关键词定位到第四段后半部分。霍夫斯塔特说，自历史之初，我们对民主化和大众化的渴望就驱使我们排斥任何带有精英优越论味道的东西。实用性、常识以及天分这些素质一直被视作比从书本里学得的任何东西都高贵。精英优越论味道的东西以及书本里面学到的东西等同于才智，可见美国有史以来就是反对才智主义的。因此，正确答案是A。B项与原文本意恰恰相
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