1、The average time for holding a stock in both the United States and Britain, he notes, has dropped from seven years to seven months in recent decades. Transient investors, who demand high quarterly profits from companies, can hinder a firm's efforts to invest in long-term research or to build up customer loyalty. This has been dubbed "quarterly capitalism".（節(jié)選自2019年考研英語(yǔ)一Text 1）

 

【題目】

It is argued that the influence of transient investment on public companies can be___.

[A].indirect

[B].adverse

[C].minimal

[D].temporary

 

【解析】根據(jù)題脈一般為文脈，及題干關(guān)鍵詞“transient investment”定位第三段第二句，“Transient investors，.…can hinder a firm's efforts to invest in long-term research or to build up customer loyalty”（短暫投資者可能會(huì)阻礙一個(gè)公司投資長(zhǎng)期研究胡建立客戶忠誠(chéng)度。）對(duì)比四個(gè)選項(xiàng)，只有[B]項(xiàng)adverse（不利的）與原文保持一致，故為正確選項(xiàng)。

 

2、In the US, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 has pushed most public companies to defer performance bonuses for senior executives by about a year, slightly helping reduce "short -termism."In its latest survey of CEO pay, the Wall Street Journal finds that "a substantial part"of executive pay is now tied to performance.

 

Much more could be done to encourage "long-termism", such as changes in the tax code and quicker disclosure of stock acquisitions. In France, shareholders who hold onto a company investment for at least two years can sometimes earn more voting rights in a company.（節(jié)選自2019年考研英語(yǔ)一Text 1）

 

【題目】

The US and France examples and used to illustrate___.

[A].the obstacles to preventing "short-termism"

[B].the significance of long-term thinking

[C].the approaches to promoting "long-termism"

[D].the prevalence of short-term thinking

 

【解析】根據(jù)題干關(guān)鍵詞“The US and France”定位到第五、六段，第五段為美國(guó)的例子，第六段為法國(guó)的例子，第五段中美國(guó)延遲發(fā)放才上任一年左右的高管績(jī)效津貼，繼而促進(jìn)緩解短期主義”盛行的現(xiàn)狀；第六段首句承前啟后講到“Much more could be done to encourage ‘long-termism”（為了鼓勵(lì)“長(zhǎng)期主義”，還有很多工作要做）。第六段在法國(guó)持股兩年以上者擁有更大的選票權(quán)。[C]項(xiàng)The approaches to promoting “Long-termism”（促進(jìn)“長(zhǎng)期主義”的方法），綜合概括了兩段，與原文一致，故為正確選項(xiàng)。

 

 

 

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