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Text 4 Europe is not a genderequality he

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问题 Text 4 Europe is not a genderequality heaven.In particular,the corporate workplace will never be completely familyfriendly until women are part of senior management decisions,and Europe's top corporategovernance positions remain overwhelmingly male.Indeed,women hold only 14 percent of positions on Europe 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 24 companies took it up.Do we need quotas to ensure that women can continue to climb the corporate Ladder fairy as they balance work and family?“Personally,I don't like quotas，”Reding said recently.“But I like what the quotas do.”Quotas get action:they“open the way to equality and they break through the glass ceiling,”according to Reding,a result seen in France and other countries with legally binding provisions on placing women in top business positions.I understand Reding's reluctance—and her frustration.I don't like quotas either;they run counter to my belief in meritocracy,government by the capable.But,when one considers the obstacles to achieving the meritocratic ideal,it does look as if a fairer world must be temporarily ordered.After all,four decades of evidence has now shown that corporations in Europe as the US are evading the meritocratic hiring and promotion of women to top position—no matter how much“soft pressure”is put upon them.When women do break through to the summit of corporate power—as,for example,Sheryl Sandberg recently did at Facebook—they attract massive attention precisely because they remain the exception to the rule.If appropriate public policies were in place to help all women—whether CEOs or their children's caregivers—and all families,Sandberg would be no more newsworthy than any other highly capable person living in a more just society.In the European corporate workplace,generally______A.women take the leadB.men have the final sayC.corporate governance is overwhelmedD.senior management is familyfriendly
选项 A.women take the lead
B.men have the final say
C.corporate governance is overwhelmed
D.senior management is familyfriendly
答案 B
解析 细节题【命题思路】这是一道局部细节题，需要根据题干关键词对原文具体信息进行锁定，从而得出答案。【直击答案】根据题干关键词European corporate workplace定位到第一段。该段首句直接表明本段中心“欧洲不是一个性别平等的天堂”，接下来两句通过递进连接词“in particular”和“indeed”分别阐述中心句，即：“欧洲企业中，男女存在性别差异，并且大部分职位都是由男性担任，女性只占14%的比例”。由此可知B项为正确选项。【干扰排除】A项与原文提及的“欧洲高层企业管理职位大部分仍然是男性”、“女性在欧洲公司董事会只占有14%的席位”意思相反。“Europe's top corporategovernance positions remain overwhelmingly male”中overwhelmingly表示“压倒性地，不可抵抗地”，修饰限定“欧洲高层企业管理职位仍然是男性”，而C项中把这个概念替换为动词，表示“压倒，淹没，颠覆”，即“企业管理被颠覆”，与原文意思不符。原文提及“除非女性成为高级管理做决定的一部分人群，否则公司将永远不可能完全像家庭般友好”，D项把主从句的主语和谓语部分交叉混用进行干扰，与原文不符。
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