Selection to participate in a top executive-education program is an important rung on the ladder to top corporate jobs. U.S. cor

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问题     Selection to participate in a top executive-education program is an important rung on the ladder to top corporate jobs. U.S. corporations (1)_____ billions of dollars in this form of management development—and use it to (2)_____ and train fast-track managers. Yet one (3)_____ of executive education found that less than 5% of the managers (4)_____ to these high-profile programs are women—and minorities are terribly (5)_____ as well.
    The numbers are (6)_____. In regular business (7)_____ usually paid for by the participant, not an employer—there are plenty of women and minorities. Women, for example, (8)_____ for about 30% of MBA candidates. Yet in the (9)_____ programs paid for by corporations that round out a manager’s credentials at a (10)_____ career point, usually at age 40 or 45, companies are making only a (11)_____ investment in developing female and minority executives. A case (12)_____ point: Only about 30% of the 180 executives in Stanford’s recent (13)_____ management program were women.
    Most companies say these days they are (14)_____ hiring and promoting women and minorities—and there are some (15)_____ trends in overall employment and pay levels so why are companies (16)_____ the ball when it (17)_____ executive education? The schools (18)_____ that they are neither the cause of nor the cure for the problem. A Harvard Business School dean figures that companies are (19)_____ of sending their female executives (20)_____ they don’t want to lose them to competitors.


选项 A、inferior
B、dependent
C、junior
D、advanced

答案D

解析 上下文理解题。文章第1段的最后一句话中有high-profile program一词已提示,公司派送员工去参加高层项目培训,因此4个选项中inferior"(地位、等级)低等的,下级的";dependent"隶属的,从属的";junior"地位(或等级)较低的,年资较浅的";advanced"高级的",只有advanced符合题意。
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