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Most of Russia’s super-rich spend their summer holidays on yachts in the sunny Mediterranean. Boris Fyodorov preferred visiting English country churches; the older, the better. The buildings, and especially the gravestones, fascinated him. He saw in them symbols of an historical continuity that Russia had lost under communism.
Born in poverty as a factory caretaker’s son, he delighted in malting discoveries among his roots: trinkets(小装饰品) found at his family’s ruined estate, a Polish coat of arms. His house outside Moscow was notable not for pet wolves or other fashionable extravagances, but for his brave attempts to create a weedless, stripy English lawn in a hostile climate. He flew a Russian flag there too, scandalizing the neighbors, who insisted he needed a permit.
It was not a great success. Like several other reformers of the time, he had a firmer grasp of economics than of politics: he was too unworldly, too impatient and perhaps too clever for the dark world of Russian government. Even so, he helped to create, almost from scratch, a Western-style financial system with capital markets, payments systems and a semi-independent central bank. Despite the wholesale theft-by-privatization that followed, these achievements look more impressive now than they did in the chaos of the time.
Once out of office, Mr. Fyodorov published, among other books, a useful encyclopedia of financial terms. Some were recovered from pre-revolutionary Russian, others were new words. As a Russian patriot, however, he hated the practice of simply adapting an English word. Ofshorky ( offshore accounts离岸账户) was a pet hate, particularly because of its association with tax evasion. As head of the tax service, briefly, in 1998, he tried to decriminalize tax collecting, already well on its way to becoming an extortion excuse, and also to broaden its reach to the rich and powerful -- many of them all too familiar with ofshorky. Bravely, he set his inspectors on such prominent figures as Vladimir Zhirinovsky, a funny extremist with connections to Russia’s rulers. He also tried to scare bankers into paying taxes on their salaries ( amounting to $5 billion a year, he thought) and their local landlords into declaring the rents extracted from such foreigners ( $1 billion).
Mr. Fyodorov had by this time also gone into business, founding United Financial Group, an investment bank, with an American friend in 1994. Yet neither wealth, connections, nor the flashing blue tight on his black car (a hallmark of status in Russia) made Mr. Fyodorov quite typical of the elite that moved so smoothly from burying communism to hugging capitalism red in tooth and claw. On the contrary, he despised such people for their lack of hesitation. [br] We can infer from the last paragraph that ______.
选项
A、it is quite smooth for Boris Fyodorov to bury communism
B、Boris Fyodorov owed rather large fortune including a black car
C、what Boris Fyodorov did is out of prudence and careful thinking
D、Boris Fyodorov established United Financial Group with a friend in 1994
答案
C
解析
推理判断题。最后一句作者指出On the contrary, he despised such people for their lack of hesitation. 可见Boris Fyodorov鄙视那些不深思熟虑的人们,可推知他做事总是谨慎的,C 符合题意。
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