It is true that CEO pay has gone up-top ones may make 300 times the pay of typical workers on average, and since the mid-1970s CEO pay for large publicly traded American corporations has, by varying estimates, gone up by about 500% The typical CEO of a top American corporation now makes about S18.9 million a year. The best model for understanding the growth of CEO pay is that of limited CEO talent in a world where business opportunities for the top firms are growing rapidly. The efforts of America's highest-earning 1% have been one of the more dynamic elements of the global economy. It's not popular to say, but one reason their pay has gone up so much is that CEOs really have upped their game relative to many other workers in the U.S. economy.Today's CEO, at least for major American firms, must have many mere skills than simply being able to“run the company" CEOs must have a good sense of financial markets and maybe even how the company should trade in them. They also need better public relations skills than their predecessors, as the costs of even a minor slipup can be significant. Then there' s the fact that large American companies are much more globalized than ever before,with supply chains spread across a larger number of countries. To lead in that system requires knowledge that is farly mind-boggling plus, virtually all major American companies are beyond this major CEOs still have to do all the day-to-day work they have always done.The common idea that high CEO pay is mainly about ripping people off doesn't explain history very well. By most measures, corporate governmance has become a lot tighter and more rigorous since the 1970s. Yet it is principally during this period of stronger govemnance that CEO pay has been high and rising. That suggests it is in the broader corporate interest to recruit top candidates for increasingly tough jobs.”Furthermore, the highest CEO salaries are paid to outside candidates, not to the cozy insider picks, another sign that high CEO pay is not some kind of depredation at the expense of the rest of the company. And the stock market reacts positively when companies tie CEO pay to, say, stock prices, a sign that those practices build up corporate value not just for the CEO.  26. Which of the following has contributed to CEO pay rise? （） A.The growth in the number of corporations  B.The general pay rise with a better economy  C.Increased business opportunities for top firms  D.Close cooperation among leading economies  27. Compared with their predecessors, today's CEOs are required to().  A.foster a stronger sense of teamwork  B.finance more research and development  C.establish closer ties with tech companies  D.operate more globalized companies  28. CEO pay has been rising since the 1970s despite().  A.continual internal opposition  B.strict corporate governance  C.conservative business strategies  D.Repeated government warnings  29. High CEO pay can be justified by the fact that it helps().  A.confirm the status of CEOs  B.motivate inside candidates  C.boost the efficiency of CEOs  D.increase corporate value  30. The most suitable title for this text would be().  A.CEOs Are Not Overpaid  B.CEO Pay: Past and Present  C.CEOs' challenges of Today  D.CEO Traits: Not Easy to Define

"I guess it helps,' she says wryly(表情冷漠地)."You know, you go home and you try on a new mascara, and I guess a male CEO can't do that." She's joking, of course, but there's some truth to what she says.

Glamorous, poised and always impeccably (无瑕疵的) dressed, Jung knows what women want and how to sell it to them.That’s what has made her one of the most successful CEOs----male or female----in recent years.And that’s what placed her at number four in the ranking of the 50 Most Powerful Women in Business, an annual survey by “Fortune.” The top on the list is Carly Fiorina, chairman and CEO of Hewlett-Pachard Company, a US computer hardware company.The oldest child of Chinese immigrants, Junggrew up speaking both English and Mandarin Chinese.She received a BA in English literature from Princeton University in 1979.After graduation, Jung joined themanagement trainee program at Bloomingdale’s (a world-renowned department store).She later joined I.Magnin (the premiere retail (零售) house in the US), in San Francisco, becoming senior vice president and general merchandise manager.In 1993 Jung became a consultant (顾问) for Avon, famous for selling beauty products door to door through sales representatives known as “Avon Ladies”.When Jung, now 43, took over Avon in November 1999, the company was in deep trouble.During the greatest economic boom in history, its stock was crumbling (崩溃).As fewer women wanted to go out onto the streets selling Avon products, its sales decreased.But Jung surprised a lot of people.Over the past 20 months she has overhauled (检查) nearly everything about the way Avon does business: How it advertises, manufactures, packages, and even how it sells its products.Most surprising, she has done it not by abandoning the seemingly outdated Avon Lady, but by reviving (使再流行) her.Under Jung, more Avon Ladies are signing up than ever before.6 Since Jung joined Avon, sales have risen by 30 per cent, profits by 40 per cent and the stock price has dramatically improved.And now, Avon is the second largest firm in the US headed by a woman, after Hewlett-Packard.

1.What is the truth to what Andrea Jung said？

A.A male CEO has not the ability to try on a new mascara.

B.A female CEO has to be more careful about her appearance.

C.A female CEO has to try on a new mascara each day.

D.When at home, a female CEO always tries on a new mascara

2.Which one is not true, according to the context？

A.The chairman and CEO of Hewlett-Pachard Company is a woman.

B.It seems that "Fortune" is the name of a magazine.

C.Andrea Jung is the chairman and CEO of a IB computer hardware company.

D.Avon is a beauty products company

3.What did Jung do after she graduated from Princeton University？

A.She became a trainer at Bloomingdale's.

B.She became a member of an American retail house.

C.She became president of an American retail house.

D.She became general manager of Bloomingdale's

4.What happened to Avon before Jung became CEO？

A.The stock price of Avon was Killing.

B.The sales volume increased dramatically.

C.Avon hired more women to sell its beauty products.

D.The stock price of Avon was rising

5.What measure did Jung take to make Avon a profit-making company？

A.She gave up Avon Lady that is no longer popular.

B.She did much research and obtained much information.

C.She employed more women as Avon Ladies

D.Both B) and C)

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MANAGING ONESELF

We live in an age full of opportunitiesA、If you are smart enough, and have got ambition and keep pushing forward, you can rise to the top of your chosen profession, no matter where you started out.

But with opportunity comes responsibility. Companies today aren't managing their employees' careers. Professional workers must be their own chief executive officers (CEO). It's up to you to strive for your place, to keep yourself engaged and productive during a working life that may last around 50 years. To do those things well, you'll need to have a deep understanding of yourself — not only what your strengths and weaknesses are, but also how you learn, how you work with others, what your values are, and where you can make the greatest contribution, because only when you operate from strength can you achieve true excellence.

History's great achievers — Napoléon, da Vinci, and Mozart — have always managed themselves. But they are so unusual both in their talents and in their accomplishments as to be considered rare exceptions. Now, most of us, even those of us with modest talents, will have to learn to manage ourselves. We will have to learn to develop ourselves. We will have to place ourselves where we can make the greatest contribution. And we will have to stay mentally alert and engaged during a 50-year working life, which means knowing how and when to change the work we do.

操作提示：句子正确选择下拉选项框为“T”;句子错误选择下拉选项框为“F”。

1. Companies today are responsible for employee's career. {T; F}

2. It is the CEO who decides your place. {T; F}

3. You need to understand your company well so that you can do things well. {T; F}

4. Understanding yourself means knowing well about your strengths, weaknesses, your values, how you learn, how you do with others and so on. {T; F}

5. Ordinary people cannot manage themselves well. {T; F}

When reality __(1)__ hard to take, there’s an __(2)__ to a parallel universe a virtual world without end __(3)__ real people create online personas called avatars. Anything is possible.

Catherine Smith showed CBS News correspondent Jerry Bowen that her avatar has red hair and big nice cool glasses.

This is my deck__(4)__ the beach, and I’ve got neighbors that have a giant pirate ship, Smith explained.

Smith can’t __(5)__ a beach house in real life. But in Second Life, the online game __(6)__by her employer, Linden Lab, she and nearly 100,000 other subscribers who pay

You can go skydiving and not be afraid of dying; you could become a wild animal, __(7)__ that you could never do in real life, she said.__(8)__ as this may be to believe, there is real money changing hands among the players in these games, Bowen reports. An estimated 6 million a month.

What we have here is a virtual loft of sorts that we created for the artist Regina Spektor, says Ethan Kaplan of Warner Bros. Records, which has set up shop to __(10)__ the pop singer’s music.

Our goal with Second Life is to make it better than real life in a lot of ways, says Phillip Rosedale, Linden Lab’s CEO and founder.

(1)A、get

B、gets

C、is

D、was

(2)A、route

B、way

C、escape

D、retreat

(3)A、that

B、which

C、when

D、where

(4)A、being overlooked

B、overlooking

C、overlooked

D、overlook

(5)A、help

B、getting

C、afford

D、for

(6)A、created

B、invented

C、creating

D、inventing

(7)A、some

B、nothing

C、anything

D、something

(8)A、True

B、Hard

C、Truth

D、Had

(9)A、is

B、was

C、are

D、were

(10)A、publical

B、pub

C、publicize

D、public

A.一线员工、部门经理、CEO

B.CEO、部门经理、一线员工

C.部门经理、一线员工、CEO

D.一线员工、CEO、部门经理

The staff is employed in this company with the CEO giving interviews. (翻译)

沈思CEO曾在谷歌工作。()