When Andrew Chadwick-Jones, a management consultant with Oliver Wyman in London, went to pitch to a private-equity firm late las

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问题    When Andrew Chadwick-Jones, a management consultant with Oliver Wyman in London, went to pitch to a private-equity firm late last year, he【C1】______the usual: about 20 minutes and a brisk attitude. He was surprised to find the private-equity people【C2】______explaining their strategy,【C3】______introductions to senior staff and being more open and friendly.【C4】______money and deals are scarce, they’ve got to be nicer to all the people they【C5】______with, in case they might help bring business in future, he says.
   Rudeness is out, and civility is the new【C6】______in an uncertain world. On Wall Street, says a banker, it’s now all about charm and openness and taking time with people. Cocky young things straight【C7】______the best business schools have stopped skipping interview appointments, recruiters say, and there is much less【C8】______people’s shoulders at drinks parties, reports one veteran.
   Many people, fearful for their jobs, are trying to burnish their contacts at other firms. The change in tone also【C9】______an upheaval in the balance of【C10】______between companies.【C11】______the crisis, says Michel Pretie, head of investment banking at Societe Generale in Paris, he would go and see a senior chief executive with a mergers-and-acquisitions【C12】______, get in for a short【C13】______and, on the way out, walk past a line of all his competitors. Now, he says, "You’re ushered【C14】______, you get an hour with the CEO and he walks you to your car."
   During this crisis, when there is so much uncertainty about who will end【C15】______having power, the best【C16】______is to be civil to everyone, says Adam Galinsky of the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. People have more time to be friendly when business is【C17】______. Some【C18】______the new cordiality reflects a【C19】______that everyone is in the same boat: when some firms have to fire good performers as well as bad, no one is safe.【C20】______if people at different firms are being nicer to each other, things may not be getting any nicer inside companies.
【C8】

选项 A、looking into
B、looking for
C、looking over
D、looking after

答案C

解析 语义搭配题。根据文中句子and there is much less ______people’s shoulders at drinks parties,reports one veteran.(而且,酒会上______别人的行为也少了很多了,一位职场老手说。)可知在这里只有C项符合文意,故C项为正确选项。
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