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Few beyond California’s technology crowd recognise the name Larry Sonsini; none within its circle could fail to. For four decade

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问题     Few beyond California’s technology crowd recognise the name Larry Sonsini; none within its circle could fail to. For four decades he has been lawyer, adviser and friend to many prominent companies and investors. Some consider him the most powerful person in Silicon Valley. Companies beg for his law firm to represent them. The 65-year-old chairman of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati (WSG&R) has suddenly been thrust into the spotlight: first, for counselling many of the technology firms now under scrutiny for backdating stock options (and in some cases, serving on their boards); and more recently, as outside counsel to Hewlett-Packard (HP), for initially defending the board’s dubious investigative practices.
    WSG&R boasts 600 lawyers and represents around half of Silicon Valley’s public companies, including Apple, Sun Microsystems and Google. Last year it ranked first in private-equity and venture-capital deals, with nearly twice as many as its closest rival. Over the past five years WSG&R has worked on over 1,000 mergers and acquisitions, collectively worth over $ 260 billion.
    The recent troubles cast a shadow over WSG&R’s reputation. Although Mr. Sonsini is not accused of wrongdoing himself, many of his firm’s clients are on the ropes. Former executives at Brocade Communications suffered criminal charges in July. Mr. Sonsini served on Brocade’s board until last year and his firm was its outside counsel. He also was on the boards of Pixar, Echelon, Lattice Semiconductor, LSI Logic and Novell—all firms at which the issuing of stock options is being called into question.
    WSG&R dismisses the idea that Mr. Sonsini faced a conflict of interest by acting as both director and legal adviser to so many firms and says he did not advise HP in its investigation of board members. Mr. Sonsini initially said it was "well done and within legal limits". It now seems it was neither.
The text is most probably a digest concerning______.
选项 A、federal image
B、corporate governance
C、economic inflation
D、personnel administration
答案B
解析 本文属于中心主旨题型，测试考生对原文的整体把握与全面理解。本题的答案最明显且重要的信息来源于首段的尾句以及第三段的首句。首段尾句讲：WSG&R公司的董事会主席出了问题。第三段首句讲：近来的麻烦给WSG&R公司的声誉投上了阴影。由此可以推断本文讨论的是WSG＆R公司的董事会主席以及其所在公司的相关状况，故本题的正确选项应该是B，本文大概是有关公司治理文章的节选。考生在解题时要注意对全文中心主旨的高度把握。
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