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When executives at Google went looking for Wall Street investment bankers to underwrite the company’s massive initial public off

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问题     When executives at Google went looking for Wall Street investment bankers to underwrite the company’s massive initial public offering, they laid down strict terms of engagement: bring us new ideas on how to sell the deal to investors and save the usual political gamesmanship. But with such a huge payday at stake—an estimated $100 million in fees for handling the offering—would you expect all the big firms to play by the Google rules? Of course not. Just ask Goldman Sachs.
    To win a chunk of the Google business, Goldman, the nation’s premier investment bank, set free its CEO, Hank Paulson, to pull some strings. Paulson is one of Wall Street’s best "call men", who can wave a Palm PDA full of connections when it’s crunch time to bring home a deal. But News week has learned that Paulson tried to sidestep Google’s orders by reaching out to one of Google’s largest investors, Kleiner Perkins, the powerful venture-capital firm that was an early Google backer. The move helped doom Goldman’s efforts to win the lead underwriting spot, which went instead to Credit Suisse First Boston and Morgan Stanley.
    Paulson thought his best shot was John Doerr, one of Kleiner’s top partners. Bad move. When word of Paulson’s misstep got back to Google’s top executives, Goldman was quickly bumped from the top of the short list. "The people at Google were such enthusiasts about the rules," said one executive who works at a rival Wall Street firm. "When they heard about this, they went ape." None of the parties involved—Google, Goldman Sachs or Doerr—would comment.
    The two winners, CSFB and Morgan Stanley, managed to keep a low profile. John Mack, CSFB’s famously well-connected chief executive, purposely stayed out of the bidding process for fear that he might tip the scales to another player, people with knowledge of the matter say. Meanwhile, new rules for Wall Street research analysts appear to have prevented Mary Meeker, Morgan Stanley’s top Internet analyst, from playing a direct role, even though she and Doerr have done business together for years.
    Goldman, meanwhile, can’t blame its loss just on Paulson. People close to the deal say bankers for the firm bragged to Google about the Goldman name, and didn’t generate enough ideas about how to sell shares to investors through an auction. "Their lack of marketing wit may have hurt them more than Paulson," said the executive from a rival firm. Sometimes, it really does pay to play by the rules.
选项 A、Google followed the rules of Wall Street.
B、Goldman Sachs disobeyed Google’s rules.
C、Goldman Sachs followed Google’s rules.
D、Big firms in Wall Street are afraid of Google.
答案B
解析 推理判断题。本题定位至首段，结合各选项阅读首段，推断出正确选项。开篇谈到Google管理层在寻找华尔街投资银行家发行公司巨额的首次公开发行的股票时，他们设置了严格的合作条款。第二句中的but说明实际情况与首句中提到的不同。该句提出问题：签下这单生意能赚1亿美元，你认为所有这些大公司都会遵循Google定下的规则吗?答案是否定的。最后指出Just ask Goldman Sachs。由此可见高盛是这些投资银行的代表，故推断出正确答案。首段提到设定规则的是Google，而非华尔街的投资银行；从首段末句中的Just可以看出，本句与前一句为顺承关系，既然前面指出公司违背了Google的规则，高盛自然不会例外；本段没有提到华尔街公司对Google是什么样的态度。
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