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Walmart is at an "inflection point". Those words are truer now than when Bill Simon, the head of its American operation, uttered

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问题     Walmart is at an "inflection point". Those words are truer now than when Bill Simon, the head of its American operation, uttered them last October. He was talking about Walmart’s plan for the first time to open more small and medium-sized stores in 2014 than giant "supercentres", and all that would mean. Now another big change looms. On February 1st the company gets a new chief executive, Doug McMillon, until now the head of its international business.
    In some respects Mr. McMillon looks like a natural choice to manage a huge beast that inspires loathing and loyalty in equal measure. A native of Arkansas, Walmart’s home state, he started out in one of the company’s warehouses, rose as a specialist in merchandising (deciding how goods are displayed and sold in stores) and was head of the Sam’s Club unit, stores where members buy in bulk.
    Genial and approachable, Mr. McMillon may cure the corporate problem that afflicts Walmart when it talks to its 2. 2m employees, to its giant customer base (90% of Americans shop there at least once a year) and to critics who say it pays miserly wages and sucks life out of town centres. On January 15th the National Labour Relations Board accused Walmart of sacking and disciplining workers who went on strike in 2012. Walmart says it acted lawfully and claims to promote 160,000 people a year; Mr. McMillon’s box-shifting calluses make such claims a bit more convincing.
    Yet the international business, which he has led since 2009, is not thriving. This year it is expected to account for 28% of sales but it has just achieved 19% of operating income. Walmart has reduced costs in China and Brazil after expanding too fast. Confusing policies on foreign investment in retailing have hampered Walmart’s push into India. Walmart is co-operating with investigations into allegations that executives in Mexico bribed officials; the inquiries have been broadened to the company’s operations in India, Brazil and China. Mr. McMillon is not to blame for these setbacks, many of which date from before he took over, but neither has he brought about a turnaround.
We can conclude from the last two paragraphs that ______.
选项 A、McMillon failed to live up to the expectation of a "turnaround"
B、McMillon is competent enough to address the issues that troubling Walmart
C、McMillon is to blame for the international business’s not thriving
D、Mr. McMillon is convincing due to his calluses caused by box-shifting
答案A
解析 选项A对应的是最后一段第四句“Mr. McMillon is not to blame for these setbacks, many of which date from before he took over, but neither has he brought about a turnaround”，意思是“面对这些挫折，麦克米伦不该受到指责，许多问题根深蒂固，在他接管前就存在，但他也没有为企业带来扭转”，明确表明虽然麦克米伦不该被责备，但他的确没有促成企业的扭转。故A项正确。B选项也与此句的表达不符，因为他并没有解决企业的问题。C选项违背最后一段最后一句内容。D选项来自倒数第二段最后一句“Mr. McMillon’s box-shifting calluses make such claims a bit more convincing”，貌似正确，但麦克米伦的说服力显然不仅仅是因为一些老茧，老茧只是他长久实践经验的象征而已，因此D选项比较肤浅。而且选项A比较符合最后两段要表明的中心思想：麦克米伦最终没有解决问题，但是他不应该被责备。
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