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、under-represented
B、underlined
C、underestimated
D、undermined

答案A

解析 动词辨析题。句子的意思是"很糟糕的是少数民族的代表名额也不足"。4个选项中的单词形近,但意思区别很大。underlined"划线";underestimated"低估";undermined"破坏";只有under-represented"名额不足"符合文章的要求,是正确答案。
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