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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.
【C9】
选项 A、checks
B、reduces
C、reflects
D、affects
答案C
解析 上下文语义及动词辨析题。The change intone also______an upheaval in the balance of ______between companies．(这种状况的变化______公司与公司之间______平衡的剧烈变化。)C项reflects“反映，表现……的特性”更符合句意，故C项为正确选项。
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