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  3. 1 The senior partner, Oliver Lambert, studied the resume for the hundredth time and again found nothing he disliked about Mi

1 The senior partner, Oliver Lambert, studied the resume for the hundredth time and again found nothing he disliked about Mi

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问题 1     The senior partner, Oliver Lambert, studied the resume for the hundredth time and again found nothing he disliked about Mitchell Y. McDeere, at least not on paper. He had the brains, the ambition, the good looks. And he was hungry; with his background, he had to be. He was married, and that was mandatory. The firm had never hired an unmarried lawyer, and it frowned heavily on divorce, as well as womanizing and drinking. Drug testing was in the contract. He had a degree in accounting, passed the CPA exam the first time he took it and wanted to be a tax lawyer, which of course was a requirement with a tax firm. He was white, and the firm had never hired a black. They managed this by being secretive and clubbish and never soliciting job applications. Other firms solicited, and hired blacks. This firm recruited, and remained lily white. Plus, the firm was in Memphis, and the top blacks wanted New York or Washington or Chicago. McDeere was a male, and there were no women in the firm. That mistake had been made in the mid-seventies when they recruited the number one grad from Harvard, who happened to be a she and a wizard at taxation. She lasted four turbulent years and was killed in a car wreck.
2     He looked good, on paper. He was their top choice. In fact, for this year there were no other prospects. The list was very short. It was McDeere, or no one.
3     The managing partner, Royce McKnight, studied a dossier labeled "Mitchell Y. McDeere. Harvard. "An inch thick with small print and a few photographs; it had been prepared by some ex-CIA agents in a private intelligence outfit in Bethesda. They were clients of the firm and each year did the investigating for no fee. It was easy work, they said, checking out unsuspecting law students. They learned, for instance, that he preferred to leave the Northeast, that he was holding three job offers, two in New York and one in Chicago, and that the highest offer was ＄76,000 and the lowest was ＄68,000. He was in demand. He had been given the opportunity to cheat on a securities exam during his second year. He declined, and made the highest grade in the class. Two months ago he had been offered cocaine at a law school party. He said no and left when everyone began snorting. He drank an occasional beer, but drinking was expensive and he had no money. He owed close to ＄23,000 in student loans. He was hungry.
4     Royce McKnight flipped through the dossier and smiled. McDeere was their man.
5     Lamar Quin was thirth-two and not yet a partner. He had been brought along to look young and act young and project a youthful image for Bendini, Lambert ＆ Locke, which in fact was a young firm, since most of the partners retired in their late forties of early fifties with money to burn. He would make partner in this firm. With a six-figure income guaranteed for the rest of his life, Lamar could enjoy the twelve-hundred-dollar tailored suits that hung so comfortably from his tall, athletic frame. He strolled nonchalantly across the thousand-dollar-a-day suite and poured another cup of decaf. He checked his watch.  He glanced at the two partners sitting at the small conference table near the windows.
6     Precisely at two thirty someone knocked on the door. Lamar looked at the partners, who slid the resume and dossier into an open briefcase. All three reached for their jackets. Lamir buttoned his top button and opened the door.
选项 A、Marriage.
B、Background.
C、Relevant degree.
D、Male.
答案B
解析 <1>mandatory必需的，强制性的
<2>frown On对……不满
<3>secretive and clubbish遮遮掩掩(讳莫如深)、排外的
<4>grad为graduate(毕业生)的缩写。
<5>wizard奇才
<6>with money to burn钱多得花不完，钱有的是。来自have sth．to burn这一习语，意思是“某物多得用不完，某物有的是”。
<7>decaf(脱去咖啡因的)饮料
此题为细节归纳题。据第1段第4句，我们知道，McDeere已婚，而这一点是必须的(mandatory)，故可排除A。据第1段第7句，我们可知，McDeere拥有会计学方面的学位，而这是税务公司招募人才的一个要求，故可排除C。据第1段第13句我们知道，McDeere为男性，而该公司没有一个员工是女的。从下一句中的that mistake(指从哈佛招了一个女毕业生)可推知，性别为男性也是一个要求，故可排除D。第1段第3句中提及的background指的是McDeere的处境，与选项B的含义(社会背景)并不一致。故此题选B。
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