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How to approach Reading Test Part Two • In this part of the Reading Test you read a text with gaps in it, and choose the best se
How to approach Reading Test Part Two • In this part of the Reading Test you read a text with gaps in it, and choose the best se
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How to approach Reading Test Part Two
• In this part of the Reading Test you read a text with gaps in it, and choose the best sentence to fill each gap from a set of seven sentences.
• First read the text for the overall meaning, then go back and look for the best sentence for each gap.
• Make sure the sentence fits both the meaning and the grammar of the text around the gap.
• Read the article on the opposite page about a club for company chairmen and women.
• Choose the best sentence from below to fill each of the gaps.
• For each gap 8 - 12, mark one letter (A - G) on your Answer Sheet.
• Do not use any letter more than once.
• There is an example at the beginning, (0).
A forum for chairmen and women to exchange ideas
When Cadbury Schweppes was considering selling its food and health products businesses in the mid-1980s, Sir Adrian Cadbury, chairman at the time, called a board meeting and told the directors not to make up their minds, but simply to talk about selling the businesses. (0) At that first meeting, everyone spoke up. Opinion was divided. The second meeting was different. ’We had a very large degree of agreement,’ Sir Adrian says. (8) ... He had feared that attempting to deal with the matter just in one meeting would inhibit open discussion.
How to chair a company has been a long-time preoccupation of Sir Adrian’s. The committee he headed in the early 1990s - set up by the British government to investigate corporate governance - produced the Cadbury report. (9) ... This was just one of its many recommendations, which had a major impact on how companies are managed.
Being chairman is a difficult job, Sir Adrian says. (10) ... For that reason, he has helped set up the Chairmen’s Forum, a club of like- minded people who get together to exchange ideas and learn how to chair companies. As well as hosting dinners, addressed by major players in the business world, the forum has held seminars to discuss issues such as how to get the best out of the board and how to respond to a crisis.
James Watson, head of the forum’s steering committee, believes the organisation should do more to publicise its existence. One of the reasons is that he wants to attract a more diverse group of chairmen and women as the forum increases its size to the 100 members he regards as optimal. (11) ... But all are UK-based and the vast majority are male. The forum wants to attract more women and more non-British members to what it believes is the world’s only chairmen’s club.
Most chairmen of the biggest UK companies have stayed away. (12) ... Sir Adrian is more charitable: he believes chairmen of large groups do not have time for forum meetings. But he argues that one should not underestimate how difficult the job is. Chairing any meeting is a challenge. And as Jane Kelly, the first woman to join the organisation; says, leading is often a solitary task. ’The higher up you move in any organisation, the lonelier you can be. At each level, the number of people you can talk to is smaller.’ Hence the value of a club like the Chairmen’s Forum.
A Currently almost all of them head listed companies - although generally not the biggest - and some come from private companies and the public sector
B Among other things, it came down in favour of companies separating the roles of chairman and chief executive.
C Many also regard the opportunity to test new thinking as a major benefit.
D Some forum members suspect that many of those in powerful positions think they know it all already.
E Dividing the decision-making process into parts, each with its own focus, achieved the desired outcome.
F There are no clear guidelines.
G His plan. was to hold another one at which the issue would be resolved.
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答案
E
解析
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