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07年考研英語閱讀理解精讀100篇unit13

Unit 13
As a track star in high school, Sallie Krawcheck ranked among her state's best at the high

jump. But she hasn't jumped for anyone since, and her unshakable independence has propelled

her career on Wall Street to heights unimaginable to a girl coming of age in Charleston, S.C.,

in the 1970s. Then, Krawcheck--always an outstanding student--thought mostly of cheerleading

and "dating the coolest boy," she acknowledges. "She was in danger of becoming terminally

cute," recalls her high school guidance counselor, Nancy Wise, who recognized Krawcheck's

potential early and stoked her business ambitions. Today Krawcheck, 37, is one of the most

powerful women in the corporate world and a rising star.

How far she climbs depends on how well she meets her latest challenge: closing the credibility

gap at financial-services giant Citigroup, after government inquiries put a cloud over the

firm's reputation--and its stock. Krawcheck was hired in October from the independent stock-

research firm Sanford C. Bernstein (where she was CEO) to be Citi's designated savior.

Citigroup's proud CEO, Sanford Weill, personally wooed her, reorganizing a large chunk of Citi

around her. Krawcheck is now CEO of a reconstituted Smith Barney, which encompasses Citi's

stock-research and retail-brokerage operations.

This large stage leaves Krawcheck outwardly undaunted. She's relaxed and confident, with a

self-deprecating sense of humor. She says she's "incredibly insecure," and has had nightmares

in which she fails to win the respect of her new colleagues. But this soft-spoken humility

belies a toughness present from the start. Daughter of a lawyer and sister of three more,

Krawcheck learned early on to substantiate her assertions--or keep quiet.

"It used to get quite interesting around the dinner table," says her father Lenny, who

practices law in Charleston. "Politics, relationships--you name it. It was every man for

himself and awful tough to make your point." Jokes Sallie: "None of us could get a friend to

come over for dinner."

Krawcheck earned a journalism degree from the University of North Carolina and an M.B.A. from

Columbia University. She went to work at Salomon Brothers but soon moved to Donaldson, Lufkin

& Jenrette, where she met her husband Gary Appel. In 1994 Krawcheck moved to Bernstein and

dived into stock research. She began covering financial-services firms in 1997 and immediately

became the most influential analyst in that field. During those years, Krawcheck earned

Weill's ire--and respect when she was later proved correct--by dwelling on the pitfalls of

Weill's acquisition of Salomon

注（1）：本文選自Time; 12/2/2002, p52, 1/2p, 1c；

注（2）：本文習題命題模仿對象2003年真題Text 2；

1. The author begins his article by __________.

[A]making a comparison

[B]posing a contrast

[C]justifying an assumption

[D]explaining a phenomenon

2. Krawcheck was chosen the CEO of the Smith Barney because ___________.

[A]the CEO of the Citigroup trusted her

[B]she was thought to be able to save Citigroup out of trouble

[C]she has wonderful experience in this field

[D]she is the new rising star

3. Krawcheck’s success depends on ___________.

[A]how well she can regain the firm’s reputation

[B]how well she can save the firm’s credibility crisis

[C]how well she can raise the firm’s stock

[D]how well she can fulfill her own plan and aim

4. The previous days Krawcheck spent at home are mentioned to show that __________.

[A] Krawcheck knows well how to prove her ideas

[B] family members are always on different sides.

[C]there is an air of freedom at Krawcheck’s home

[D]they have a variety of topics at dinner

5.From the text we learn that Krawcheck is ___________.

[A]humorous

[B]soft-hearted

[C]sensitive

[D]strong-minded

答案：ABBAD

篇章剖析

本文記述了薩利•克勞切克成功的職業(yè)生涯。第一段指出中學時代的克勞切克就相當出色，今天的她更是出

類拔萃；第二段指出她臨危授命，擔任花旗集團（Citigroup）新組建的史密斯•巴尼公司首席執(zhí)行官；第三

段和第四段介紹了她的性格以及家庭對她的影響；第五段介紹了她輝煌的從業(yè)經(jīng)歷。

詞匯注釋

stoke vt. 給(火或火爐)添加燃料，撥旺(火或火爐)；照管(火爐等); 司(爐)

credibility gap 信用差距

cast (put) a cloud on [upon] 在...上投下一層陰影

woo vt. 向...求婚, 求愛；懇求，請求；勸說, 拉攏(人)(做某事, 投入某項行動等)

belie [bI5laI] vt. 使對…產(chǎn)生錯覺；使人對…誤解；掩飾；顯示(希望、諾言等)不真實(是虛假的)；使

失望; 辜負

early on在早期

substantiate vt.證明，使...具體化，使成為現(xiàn)實

assertion [E5sE:FEn] n. 主張, 要求, 斷言

stand to one’s assertion 堅持已見

for oneself 為自己; 代表自己; 獨力地; 親自地

ire [5aIE(r)] n. 忿怒，憤怒，怒火

dwell on v. 細想, 詳述，詳評，如：

pitfall [5pitfC:l] n. 陷阱, 圈套, 誘惑；易犯的錯誤；(由疏忽而出的)毛病, 缺陷, 失誤

難句突破

1．But she hasn't jumped for anyone since, and her unshakable independence has propelled her

career on Wall Street to heights unimaginable to a girl coming of age in Charleston, S.C., in

the 1970s.

主體句式：she hasn't jumped for anyone since, and her independence has propelled her to

heights …

結構分析：本句是and引導的兩個并列句。在這個句子中，注意propel的用法：“propel sb. to do sth”

，意思是“促使、推動某人做某事”；“unimaginable to a girl”做后置定語來修飾“heights”；

“coming of age”做后置定語修飾“a girl”，其中“age”的意思是“成年”。

句子譯文：但她從那以后再也沒有為任何人跳過，而她那不可動搖的獨立性把她在華爾街的職業(yè)生涯推向一

個在二十世紀七十年代對一個來自南卡羅來納州查爾斯頓正在步入成年之列的少女來說不可思議的高度。

2．How far she climbs depends on how well she meets her latest challenge: closing the

credibility gap at financial-services giant Citigroup, after government inquiries put a cloud

over the firm's reputation--and its stock.

主體句式：How far she climbs depends on how well she meets her latest challenge …

結構分析：從句“how far she climbs”做句子的主語；從句“how well she meets”做動詞短語“depend

on”的賓語；“closing the credibility gap”做伴隨狀語，其中“credibility gap”的意思是“信用差

距”，“put a cloud over”的意思是“在...上投下一層陰影”。

句子譯文: 她能取得多大的成就取決于她如何迎接她的最新挑戰(zhàn)：在政府的調查使公司的名譽——及其股票

——罩上一層陰影之后，縮小財政服務巨人Citigroup集團的信用差距。

題目分析

1.答案為A，屬事實細節(jié)題。文章中提到中學時代的克勞切克和今天的克勞切克都是相當成功的。

2.答案為B，屬事實細節(jié)題。原文對應信息是“Krawcheck was hired in October from the independent

stock-research firm Sanford C. Bernstein (where she was CEO) to be Citi's designated savior.”

。

3.答案為B ，屬推理判斷題。原文對應信息是：“How far she climbs depends on how well she meets

her latest challenge: closing the credibility gap at financial-services giant Citigroup, after

government inquiries put a cloud over the firm's reputation--and its stock.”。本句的分析參見

難句突破部分。

4.答案為A，屬推理判斷題。第三段最后一句指出“Daughter of a lawyer and sister of three more,

Krawcheck learned early on to substantiate her assertions--or keep quiet.”，然后作者在第四段

給出克勞切克的父親和她本人的感受，來進一步來說明這一句話。

5.答案為D，屬事實細節(jié)題。原文對應信息是：“But this soft-spoken humility belies a toughness

present from the start.”。

參考譯文

作為中學時代的徑賽明星，薩利•克勞切克曾名列她所在州跳高運動的榜首。但她從那以后再也沒有為任何

人跳過，而她那不可動搖的獨立性把她在華爾街的職業(yè)生涯推向一個在二十世紀七十年代對一個來自南卡羅

來納州查爾斯頓正在步入成年之列的少女來說不可思議的高度。克勞切克——她總是一名杰出的學生——承

認說，主要想的就是如何帶領啦啦隊和 “約會最酷的男孩�！� 很早就認識到她的潛能并激發(fā)她商業(yè)雄心的

中學指導顧問南希•懷斯回憶說，“她極有可能成為絕頂聰明之人�！� 今天，37歲的克勞切克是商界最強有

力的女人之一，是一顆冉冉升起的明星。

她能取得多大的成就取決于她如何迎接她的最新挑戰(zhàn)：在政府的調查使公司的名譽——及其股票——罩上一

層陰影之后，縮小財政服務巨人Citigroup集團的信用差距。克勞切克是10月從獨立的股票研究公司——桑

福德•C•伯恩斯坦公司(在這家公司她是首席執(zhí)行官)被招聘為選定的Citi集團的救星。Citigroup集團高傲的

首席執(zhí)行官桑福德•韋爾親自懇求她，把Citi集團的一大塊重組在她周圍�？藙谇锌爽F(xiàn)在是重組后的史密斯

巴尼公司(其中包括 Citi集團的股票研究和零售經(jīng)紀業(yè)務)的首席執(zhí)行官。

這個大舞臺讓克勞切克無所畏懼地向外擴張。她顯得輕松自如且胸有成竹，帶有幾分自貶式的幽默感。她說

她感到“難以置信地沒有把握，”常常做惡夢，夢見她得不到新同事的尊敬。但是這種說起話來讓人感到溫

柔可親的謙卑掩飾了她一開始就有的堅韌與果斷。作為律師的女兒和另外三個姊妹的姐姐, 克勞切克很早就

學會了如何證實自己的主張——或保持鎮(zhèn)靜。

“過去圍坐餐桌就餐是相當有趣的，”她父親倫尼——他在查爾斯頓當律師——這樣說�！罢�治、關系——

你只管講出來。每個人都講自己的觀點，要想講清一個論點著實很困難�！彼_莉開玩笑說，“我們誰也不能

邀請朋友來吃飯”。

克勞切克先后獲得北卡羅萊那州立大學的新聞學學士學位和哥倫比亞大學的工商管理碩士學位。她到薩洛蒙

兄弟公司工作，但很快就轉到唐納森、拉夫金-詹雷特公司工作，在那兒她遇見了她的丈夫加里•阿普爾。

1994年，克勞切克中轉入伯恩斯坦公司，此后便一頭扎進股票研究工作。1997年，她開始涉足金融服務公司

，很快便成為該領域的最有影響力的分析家。在這幾年中，克勞切克對韋爾收購薩洛蒙公司一案進行了詳細

評述，這激起了韋爾的忿怒，同時也贏得了他的尊重，因為后來的發(fā)展證明她是正確的。

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