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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.The European Union's intended legislation is______A.a reflection of gender balanceB.a reluctant choiceC.a response to Reding's callD.a voluntary action
选项 A.a reflection of gender balance
B.a reluctant choice
C.a response to Reding's call
D.a voluntary action
答案 B
解析 细节题【命题思路】这是一道局部细节题，需要对文章第二段具体信息进行锁定，从而得出答案。【直击答案】根据题干关键词The European Union’s定位到第二段首句。题干的ended legislation则是对原文now considering legislation的同义改写，因此正确答案锁定在该内容处。另外，根据本段所述，Reding的呼吁以及应者寥寥的介绍是为了说明This proposed mandate was born of frustration一句中的frustration。B项恰是因为Reding的呼吁所得到的响应太少，公司不愿意这样做，才考虑以立法方式促进性别平等。换句话说reluctant choice是born of frustration的同义改写。因此B项为正确选项。【干扰排除】A选项表面上看与首句相符，但因为该选项中有gender balance，且A项的重心是reflection，即“性别平衡的反映”，反映出来的是欧盟考虑立法。因此A选项的内容与文章内容因果倒置，故排除。C项“对Reding号召的回应”，该段提到这项挫折是Reding发布的号召的失败，这只是促使欧盟立法的外在诱因，并不是主导因素，其根本的原因还是为了解决男女不平等的问题，故该选项为错误选项。D项定位到Europe Commission Vice President Viviane Reding issued a call to voluntary action，该句说的是一项自愿行动的号召，并非立法是自愿的行动，偷换概念，故排除。
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