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Not long ago, chief executive officers(CEOS)were landed as heroes, leaders of the brave new economy. Bill Gates and Jack Welch w

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问题     Not long ago, chief executive officers(CEOS)were landed as heroes, leaders of the brave new economy. Bill Gates and Jack Welch were the two most celebrated American CEOs, hailed as geniuses, superstars and revolutionaries.
    But since Eaton and other scandals, Americans don’ t need much convincing when it comes to mistrusting business leaders. A recent poll in Investor’ s Business Daily found that only eight percent of Americans have high confidence in the honesty and integrity of corporate CEOs, and only four percent hold CEOs in ’ high esteem’.
    In today’ s CEO-bashing environment, executives’ actions ate more scrutinized and regulated than ever before.
    In the USA, congress has passed the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, which among other things, requires CEOs to personally certify to the accuracy of the company’ s accounts. In Britain, investment banker Derek Higgs has proposed a new code of corporate governance, spelling out new responsibilities and liabilities for executives and boards of directors.
    Fortune has praised the ’ new breed’ of CEO: the latest crop pf CEOs is disciplined, deferential, even a bit dull. Less self-reliant, today’ s CEOs turn to counselors to help ’ rehab behavior’ to become self-aware, ever-improving and ’ the opposite of the Eronesque narcissist’. The opportunity to run a major company used to be an executive’ s highest aspiration. Now more than half of senior executives surveyed said they would turn down the CEO position.
    It happens that most CEOs have decided to lie low, hoping that the storm will pass. The Business Roundtable, an association of CEOs, has been relatively quiet of late; as Fortune reported, during key debates the organization ’ chose to work behind the scenes - and mostly to water down reforms ’.
    Some might feel little affinity with CEOs—their roles are not, after all, altruistic(利他的)or public-serving ones. But in slamming CEOs, critics often knock values worth defending in everyone —like leadership, individual achievement and ambition. Even the pursuit of self-interest and simply wanting more can be progressive. On the other hand, caution and modesty have their place, but they are not likely to produce innovative technology, build great cities or fight disease.
    Geniuses, superstars, revolutionaries—we could do with some.
The author believes that______.
选项 A、critics’ bash on CEOs is totally reasonable
B、leadership, individual achievement and ambition are positive personal values
C、caution and modesty should not be advocated for they are not productive
D、the world can revolve without geniuses, superstars and revolutionaries
答案B
解析 从最后一段“critics often knock…ambition．”可看出，作者认为这些批评会打击那些值得每个人都维护的品质，即leadership，individual achievement and ambition，所以可见作者认为这些品质对人还是有积极作用的。选项B正确，从而A项可排除。第七段最后一句说到“On the other hand，caution and modesty have their place…”，可见作者也不否定caution and modesty的作用，所以C项不正确。从最后一段我们可以看出作者认为世界需要创新与改革，所以D项也是不正确的。
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