Albert ()his homework yesterday, so he couldn''t come to the party.
A.must do
B.may have done
C.ought to do
D.had to do
A.must do
B.may have done
C.ought to do
D.had to do
Often when Miss Albert sat down to her evening meal, she【27】sigh and wish the artist might share her food instead of eating his dry bread. One day the customer came in【28】usual and asked for his stale bread. As the sudden noise of the fire engine made him hurry to the door, Miss Albert【29】her opportunity. She cut each of the loaves with a knife, inserted some butter and, when the customer turned round, she was putting them【30】a paper bag.
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A.whom
B.who
C.which
D.that
Anders Moberg’s pay package—and the timing of its disclosure at a shareholder meeting last week—has confronted Ahold with a new credibility crisis as it struggles to restore confidence after the C=970m ($1 bn) scandal.
The dispute-evident in a sea of critical media comment in the Netherlands at the weekend threatens to divert management from its recovery strategy, built on significant divestments and a likely rights issue to reduce C=11bn in net debt. Units deemed unable to attain first or second position in food retail within three to five years will immediately be put up for sale.
The board’s position appears all the more delicate following comments made by Mr. Moberg to the Financial Times, in which he criticized non-executive directors for ignoring his advice to disclose his salary in May, when he agreed his contract.
Instead Ahold waited more than four months to make the announcement, on the day share-holders were asked to approve Mr. Moberg’s appointment.
“I was the one who said I liked transparency, and I had hoped [the supervisory board] had shown [the salary package] in May to avoid a situation like this,” Mr. Moberg told the FT.
As the row prompted the left-leaning Dutch Daily to call for a boycott of Ahold’s Dutch Albert Heijn supermarket chain where only last week Ahold announced 440 redundancies—it was clear the supervisory board had badly misjudged the reaction.
While Henny de Ruiter, supervisory board chairman, said the salary was a fair reflection of what a company in Ahold’s unfavorable circumstances had to pay to attract a top manager,furious investors accused it of pushing through the package regardless of investor opinion.
Furthermore, Dutch media commentators noted that the scandal at Ahold had been the trigger for the Dutch government to appoint a commission to strengthen corporate governance.
That commission has recommended a limit on executive bonuses, far below the potential two-and-a-half times annual salary that Mr. Moberg could earn.
Meanwhile, Mr. Moberg is trying to distance himself from the row and focus on strategy. He told the FT that measures had already been taken to raise its stake in the ICA-Ahold joint venture in Scandinavia.
Ahold had included in its forecasts an amount necessary to buy the shares of either of its joint venture partners, who should exercise a “put option” and sell their stake from April 2004.
第36题:The decision on Anders Moberg’s pay package has _____.
[A] incurred much criticism from the shareholders
[B] helped restore public confidence in Ahold
[C] saved the supervisory board from another crisis
[D] put pressure on the new chief executive
For many years, doctors have been studying the way the brain works. We all know that the brain has two sides, the left and the right. The right side controls the senses (seeing, hearing, feeling, tasting and smelling), and is the creative and imaginative side. The left side of the brain controls our logical thinking. It processes the information which comes in, and puts it into order, We call the left side the "educated" side of the brain and generally, in western societies, people have developed this side of the brain more than the fight side.
Scientists believe that our brain will work much more efficiently if both the right side and the left side are developed equally. In many schools today, teachers try to educate the children in such a way that both sides of the brain are used. This can be done with logical subjects including mathematics and science as well as with creative subjects such as art and literature. The result achieved by students who are educated in this way is usually better than the result of students who are educated in a more traditional way. Traditional teaching tends to exercise the left side of the brain without paying very much attention to the development of the right side.
great thinkers such as Bertand Russell the Philosopher, and Albert Einstein, the scientist, only in their work, but also in creative and imaginative activities. It was because of their many different interests in life that they were able to achieve the full development of both sides of their brain.
As long as Einstein and Russell lived, their brains functioned efficiently. It was their bodies, finally, which could not go on any longer.
The body improves ______.
A.with age
B.with use
C.with memory
D.with development
His carelessness ______ his failure in the exams.
A.resulted from
B.resulted in
C.resulted
D.resulted to
Influenced by his teacher, he decided to take politics as his ______.
A.job
B.task
C.work
D.career
Professor Wang, ______ for his informative lectures, was warmly received by his students.
A.knowing
B.known
C.to be known
D.having known
His government insisted that he ______until he finished his degree.
A.would stay
B.stay
C.stayed
D.shall stay
The trip has ______ his memory of his childhood.
A.brought about
B.brought back
C.brought over
D.brought forth
Almost everyone failed______on the first day.
A.pass his driving test
B.to have passed his driving test
C.to pass his driving test
D.passing his driving test