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So often in the workplace, women assume that they have to be just like everybody else and minimize whatever is unique about them

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问题     So often in the workplace, women assume that they have to be just like everybody else and minimize whatever is unique about them. I think it’s just the opposite. Whatever I’ve accomplished in my life, I’ve done it precisely because I have been different. I have expressed different opinions, and I have been outspoken. I don’t have any regrets about what remained unsaid. The regrets I have are about decisions that I didn’t take because I thought somebody else knew better.

    I think women always have a little twinge of thinking that maybe somebody else is smarter, somebody else has the secret formula for reaching the right decision. I have to fight against that sometimes. If you come to a leadership role on the basis of your experience, knowledge and ability, you have to assume ownership of that, which means you endorse the notion that you deserve to be where you are, because your leadership has almost unquestionably been recognized. You are entitled to make decisions.
    But you’re also required to withstand the criticism when those decisions turn out to be unpopular. Managing leadership is managing cynicism; sometimes you look like a fool or don’t express yourself as well. Sometimes people criticize or say that you’re too assertive. You have to accept that, not because you like it but because you know it comes with being a leader.
    When I first got to Brown, I came up with a package of ideas centering on my plan for academic enrichment. It appeared to some people to be overreaching, too grandiose, and impractical. It took marshaling lots of groups to accomplish it. Brown had not been need-blind for admissions, so much of the community wanted it to be need-blind because that’s the kind of place we are. We believe in fairness of opportunity. We wanted to be able to offer a spot to any student who is deserving. And the first thing that I did, which I always advocate that leaders do, was to understand and appeal to the culture and the most ardent desires of the place. Although people were very skeptical about whether we could afford to be need-blind, it was so emotional and so important that the community agreed we should try to do it. And, of course, it wasn’t very difficult to accomplish in the end.
    Now everybody looks back and they think, why didn’t we do that before? Leadership is all about enabling people to see what they would really like to see, but they’re afraid to undertake because it’s a frightening world out there, and they don’t want to have to test it.
The author suggested that women should______in work place.
选项 A、try to keep up their pace with men
B、act just as everybody else
C、highlight the uniqueness of themselves
D、act opposite to others
答案C
解析 观点态度题。首段第一句指出女性常常认为她们应该和别人一样并且忽略她们自己独特的地方，但这并不是作者的观点，下句提到我在工作中的成就恰恰是因为我的与众不同，由此可见选项[C]正确；[A]、[B]是一些女性的观点，不是作者的观点，文中出现opposite一词时是说作者的观点和其他人不同，不是行为要相反。
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