Why did Miss Maynell ask the middle-aged woman to act as her？

A．Because North America has a huge market．

B．Because Noth America is very near the UK．

C．Because North America has many trade fairs．

(英译汉)The soft handwriting reflected a thoughtful soul and insightful mind. In the front of the book ，he discovered the previous owner ’s name，Miss Hollis Maynell (霍利斯·梅纳尔小姐) . With time andeffort he located her address. She lived in New York City. He wrote her a letter introducing himself and inviting her to correspond. The next day he was shipped overseas for service in World War II.

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Robert Spring, a 19th century forger(伪造者), did well in his job that he was able to makehis living for 15 years by selling false signatures of famous Americans．Spring was born in Englandin 1813 and arrived in Philadelphia in 1858 to open a bookstore．At first he made some money byselling his small but real collection of early US autographs(亲笔签名 )．Discovering his ability atcopying handwriting, he began to learn the signatures of George Washington and Ben Franklin andwrite them on the title pages of old books．To reduce the chance of being discovered, he sent hisworks to England and Canada for sale．

Forgers have a difficult time selling their products．A forger can&39; t go to a respectable buyerbut must deal with people who don&39; t have much knowledge in the field．Forgers have many waysto make their works look real．For example, they buy old books to use the aged paper of the titlepage, and they treat paper and ink with chemicals．

After the Civil War, Britain was still fond of the southern states, so, Spring invented a re-spectable lady known as Miss Fanny Jackson, the only daughter of General "Stone Wall" Jackson．

For several years Miss Fanny&39; s money problems forced her to sell a great number of letters belong-ing to her famous father．Spring had to work very hard to satisfy the demand．All this activity didnot prevent Spring dying in poverty．

Why did Spring sell his false autographs in England and Canada？ 查看材料

A.There was a greater demand there than in America．

B.There was less chance of being discovered there．

C.Britain was Spring" s birthplace．

D.The prices were higher in England and Canada．

We have worries _____ we'll miss the best selling season of the skirts.

A、which

B、that

C、why

How did Miss Richards feel before Dick raised his hand？

A．Excited.

B．Disappointed and unhappy.

C．Angry and annoyed.

D．Confused.

Miss Brill goes to the park regularly. Why？

A.To show off her fur.

B.To maintain contacts with the world.

C.To listen to the band.

D.To meet friends.

A.Well, I was caught in the traffic jam

B.What's your opinion

C.Don't worry about that

A.Well, I was caught in the traffic jam.

B.What's your proposal？

C.Never min

TQ Company, a listed company, recently went into administration (it had become insolvent and was being managed by a firm of insolvency practitioners). A group of shareholders expressed the belief that it was the chairman, Miss Heike Hoiku, who was primarily to blame. Although the company’s management had made a number of strategic errors that brought about the company failure, the shareholders blamed the chairman for failing to hold senior management to account. In particular, they were angry that Miss Hoiku had not challenged chief executive Rupert Smith who was regarded by some as arrogant and domineering. Some said that Miss Hoiku was scared of Mr Smith.

Some shareholders wrote a letter to Miss Hoiku last year demanding that she hold Mr Smith to account for a number of previous strategic errors. They also asked her to explain why she had not warned of the strategic problems in her chairman’s statement in the annual report earlier in the year. In particular, they asked if she could remove Mr Smith from office for incompetence. Miss Hoiku replied saying that whilst she understood their concerns, it was difficult to remove a serving chief executive from office.

Some of the shareholders believed that Mr Smith may have performed better in his role had his reward package been better designed in the first place. There was previously a remuneration committee at TQ but when two of its four non-executive members left the company, they were not replaced and so the committee effectively collapsed.

Mr Smith was then able to propose his own remuneration package and Miss Hoiku did not feel able to refuse him.

He massively increased the proportion of the package that was basic salary and also awarded himself a new and much more expensive company car. Some shareholders regarded the car as ‘excessively’ expensive. In addition, suspecting that the company’s performance might deteriorate this year, he exercised all of his share options last year and immediately sold all of his shares in TQ Company.

It was noted that Mr Smith spent long periods of time travelling away on company business whilst less experienced directors struggled with implementing strategy at the company headquarters. This meant that operational procedures were often uncoordinated and this was one of the causes of the eventual strategic failure.

(a) Miss Hoiku stated that it was difficult to remove a serving chief executive from office.

Required:

(i) Explain the ways in which a company director can leave the service of a board. (4 marks)

(ii) Discuss Miss Hoiku’s statement that it is difficult to remove a serving chief executive from a board.

(4 marks)

(b) Assess, in the context of the case, the importance of the chairman’s statement to shareholders in TQ

Company’s annual report. (5 marks)

(c) Criticise the structure of the reward package that Mr Smith awarded himself. (4 marks)

(d) Criticise Miss Hoiku’s performance as chairman of TQ Company. (8 marks)