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问题 Text 1 They are falling like dominoes.Executives caught behaving badly might once have been slapped on the wrist.Today they are shown the door.On July 19th Paramount Television fired its president,Amy Powell,over reports of insensitive comments about race.This is only the latest bigwig to go in a line of departures linked to"personal misconduct"."Boards are now holding executives to higher standards,looking not just at how they treat people but also how they talk to and about them,"says Pam Jeffords of Mercer,a consultancy.The thread connecting these incidents is that all are about perceptions of executive integrity,and by extension,trust.Since trust violations are particularly hard for firms to overcome,often more so than incompetence,firms may believe that firing an errant executive can be the safest,most pragmatic course of action.Executives were never alt angels.What has changed is that boards are now far less willing to overlook bad behaviour for the sake of superior performance.A 2017 report from PwC,a professional-services firm,found that the share of chief-executive dismissals that were due to ethical lapses increased between 2007-11 and 2012-2016,not because bosses were behaving worse but because they were held more accountable.Boards seem to be acting thus for two reasons.First,to protect employees and create a safe and inclusive work environment.Second,to protect their brands'reputations.A 2016 study from researchers at Stanford showed that the fallout from chief executives behaving badly,but not unlawfully,was large and lasting.On average each of the 38 incidents studied garnered 250 news stories,with media attention lasting 4.9 years.Shares usually suffered,though not always.And in a third of cases firms faced further damage,including loss of major clients and federal investigations.Should an executive's words be judged as harshly as their actions?From the perspective of protecting the brand,as well as discouraging a toxic work environment,they probably should.The power of social media to turn a whispered comment into a Twitterstorm,and the fact that everyone now has a mobile recording device,demands a decisive response.But boards and the media also risk rushing to judgment and painting the wicked with too broad a brush.An insensitive remark made long ago or as a one-off is not the same as one made as the face of the firm or as part of a consistent pattern.Disney's firing of James Gunn,a director,last week over tweets from a decade ago,before he was hired and for which he has apologised,seems to be one instance in which such distinctions have been papered over.And plenty of companies benefit from environments where people can speak openly and brainstorm out loud.Once the fallen dominos have been counted,some firms may turn out to have been too gung-ho in responding to the"Weinstein effect".Many,perhaps most,exits will be justified.But all?We can infer from Paragraphs 4 and 5 that——A.many executives behaved badly because of their eagerness to protect brand reputationB.only a small percentage of the stories about executives have been proved trueC.a firm may suffer heavy losses due to an insensitive remark from its executivesD.social media is encouraging misconducts among chief executives with its great power

选项 A.many executives behaved badly because of their eagerness to protect brand reputation
B.only a small percentage of the stories about executives have been proved true
C.a firm may suffer heavy losses due to an insensitive remark from its executives
D.social media is encouraging misconducts among chief executives with its great power

答案 C

解析【信息锁定】第四段指出，高管的不端行为会带来巨大且持久的影响（股价受损，失去大客户，受到联邦调查等）。第五段则指出，鉴于当前社交媒体的强大传播力量以及移动录音设备的普及，高管的不当言论极有可能会产生巨大的影响，因此董事会对其评判同不当行为一样严苛、采取果断行动。C.正确。【解题技巧】A.将第四段③④句protect their brands'reputations和chicf executives behaving badly揉杂干扰，从而将“开除行为不当的高管实则是为了保护品牌声誉（即：高管的不当行为很可能会影响品牌声誉”）窜改为与之相反的“高管之所以做出不当行为，是因为太急于保护品牌声誉”。B.错误理解第四段⑤句数据，该数据是为了说明“高管行为不当事件会引发大量媒体报道”并非“只有一小部分事件报道被证实为真”。D.错误理解第五段末句，该句指出“社交媒体的强犬扩散力量使得高管不当言论的破坏力巨大”，并非说明“社交媒体正在助长高管的不当行为”。

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