2022年考研英语二|外刊英语阅读-外部董事的作用Pt.1

考研人数逐年增加，竞争之激烈使得我们不得不加急复习的日程。众所周知，阅读理解占据了考研英语二100分试卷的一半分值，而考研英语阅读文章大多来自英美国家的主流报刊杂志，所以如果能在日常就多多阅读这些文章，对以后读懂文章做对题目来说会大有裨益。

学习步骤如下：

1.不看汉语译文自己看一遍短文做理解

2.看汉语译文比对自己理解的意思与之出入

3.强化记忆重点单词（以记忆其汉语意思为主）

Ruth Simmons joined Goldman Sachs's board as an outside director in January 2000; a year later she became president of Brown University. For the rest of the decade she apparently managed both roles without attracting much criticism. But by the end of 2009, Ms. Simmons was under fire for having sat on Goldman’s compensation committee; how could she have let those enormous bonus payouts pass unremarked? By February the next year Ms. Simmons had left the board. The position was just taking up too much time, she said.

短文翻译

2000年1月,露丝·西蒙斯以外部董事的身份加入高盛公司董事会。一年后,她又出任布朗大学的校长。在随后的十年中,她身兼两职,并未因此招来太多非议。然而,2009年年末,她却因为在高盛公司薪酬委员会所担任的职位而遭到抨击:她怎能让那些巨额奖金支出在其他人毫不知情的情况下就通感过了呢?故而次年2月,西蒙斯女士离开了董事会。她解释说这个职位占用了自己太多的时间。

核心单词一览

真题练习

*一定要做题哦

21. According to Paragraph 1, Ms. Simmons was criticized for______.

[A] gaining excessive profits

[B] failing to fulfill her duty

[C] refusing to make compromises

[D] leaving the board in tough times

题目解析

21.【解析】根据题干关键词定位到文章首段第三句。文中短语“be under fire”是对题干中“criticized”一词的同义替换。题目问的是Ms. Simmons受到批评的原因，答案就在“for”之后的部分，“她担任高盛公司薪酬委员会的职务，却怎能在无人注意的情况下轻易发放如此巨额的奖金呢？”用一个反问句告诉我们她做的事情，她作为薪酬委员会的成员让巨额的款项流失了，这是与她担任的职位不符的行为，即背离了她的职责，因此答案选B。A项的干扰来自原文中“have let those enormous bonus payouts pass”,但“让巨额奖金得以发放”并不等同于“获得了太多的利益”，故A项不对；C项原文首段并未提到；D项的干扰源自于“the next years Ms. Simmons had left the board”，但这并不是受到批评的原因，而是结果。