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Walmart is at an "inflection point". Those words are truer now than when Bill Simon, the head of its American operation, uttered

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问题     Walmart is at an "inflection point". Those words are truer now than when Bill Simon, the head of its American operation, uttered them last October. He was talking about Walmart’s plan for the first time to open more small and medium-sized stores in 2014 than giant "supercentres", and all that would mean. Now another big change looms. On February 1st the company gets a new chief executive, Doug McMillon, until now the head of its international business.
    In some respects Mr. McMillon looks like a natural choice to manage a huge beast that inspires loathing and loyalty in equal measure. A native of Arkansas, Walmart’s home state, he started out in one of the company’s warehouses, rose as a specialist in merchandising (deciding how goods are displayed and sold in stores) and was head of the Sam’s Club unit, stores where members buy in bulk.
    Genial and approachable, Mr. McMillon may cure the corporate problem that afflicts Walmart when it talks to its 2. 2m employees, to its giant customer base (90% of Americans shop there at least once a year) and to critics who say it pays miserly wages and sucks life out of town centres. On January 15th the National Labour Relations Board accused Walmart of sacking and disciplining workers who went on strike in 2012. Walmart says it acted lawfully and claims to promote 160,000 people a year; Mr. McMillon’s box-shifting calluses make such claims a bit more convincing.
    Yet the international business, which he has led since 2009, is not thriving. This year it is expected to account for 28% of sales but it has just achieved 19% of operating income. Walmart has reduced costs in China and Brazil after expanding too fast. Confusing policies on foreign investment in retailing have hampered Walmart’s push into India. Walmart is co-operating with investigations into allegations that executives in Mexico bribed officials; the inquiries have been broadened to the company’s operations in India, Brazil and China. Mr. McMillon is not to blame for these setbacks, many of which date from before he took over, but neither has he brought about a turnaround.
Walmart was charged for ______.
选项 A、paying miserly wages
B、going on strike illegally
C、restricting workers with disciplines
D、dismissing and punishing employees
答案D
解析 根据题干中的“Walmart”，“charged”定位到第三段。该段中间有这么一句：On January 15th the National Labour Relations Board accused Walmart of sacking and disciplining workers who went on strike in 2012. 其中charge与accuse同义，本题答案来自“accused Walmart of”后面的内容，即“sacking and disciplining workers”，其中sack意为“解雇”，discipline在此处不是“纪律”的意思，而是“处罚”的意思，故可知D项为答案，其中“dismissing and punishing”是“sacking and disciplining”的同义表达。
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