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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、dropping
B、carrying
C、bouncing
D、opening
答案A
解析 固定搭配题。题目给出的4个动词和ball搭配，是4个短语，意思分别是：drop the ball，"放弃努力"；carrying the ball"承担主要任务"；bouncing the ball"(对公众舆论、股票市场等)预作试探"；opening the ball"开始行动，开个头"。本句话的意思是"但为什么许多公司一提到管理培训时，就放弃呢?"根据下文关于不送女性接受培训的解释可知此空选dropping。
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