【正文】 s Wharton School, for example, boasts that 40% of its new enrolment is female. You will also see a wide range of ethnic groups and nationals of practically every country.It might be tempting, therefore, to think that the old barriers have been broken down and equal opportunity achieved. But, increasingly, this apparent diversity is being a mask for a new type of conformity. Behind the differences in sex, skin tones and mother tongues, there are mon attitudes, expectations and ambitions which risk creating a set of clones among the business leaders of the future.Diversity, it seems, has not helped to address fundamental weaknesses in business leadership. So what can be done to create more effective managers of the mercial world? According to Valerie Gauthier, associate dean at HEC Paris, the key lies in the process by which MBA programmes recruit their students. At the moment candidates are selected on a fairly narrow set of criteria such as prior academic and career performance, and analytical and problem solving abilities. This is then coupled to a school39。People are making too big a fuss about something of small impact.D) There is no essential difference between seemingly opposite opinions.Passage TwoQuestions 57 to 61 are based on the following passage.Picture a typical MBA lecture theatre twenty years ago. In it the majority of students will have conformed to the standard model of the time: male, middle class and Western. Walk into a class today, however, and you39。Those who are opposed to it turn out to benefit most from it.C)t reach a consensus about its impact.B)The American economy used to thrive on immigration but now it39。Whether immigrants are good or bad for the economy has been puzzling economists.B)52. What can we learn from the first paragraph?A)t all that dramatic. The unpleasant voices have tended to dominate our perceptions, says Daniel Tichenor, a political science professor at the University of Oregon. But when all those factors are put together and the economists calculate the numbers, it ends up being a net positive, but a small one. Too bad most people don39。 savings probably translate into lower prices at the grocery store, but how many consumers make that mental connection at the checkout counter? As for the drawbacks of illegal immigration, these, too, are concentrated. Native lowskilled workers suffer most from the petition of foreign labor. According to a study by George Borjas, a Harvard economist, immigration reduced the wages of American highschool dropouts by 9% between 19802000.Among highskilled, bettereducated employees, however, opposition was strongest in states with both high numbers of immigrants and relatively generous social services. What worried them most, in other words, was the fiscal (財(cái)政的)burden of immigration. That conclusion was reinforced by another finding: that their opposition appeared to soften when that fiscal burden decreased, as occurred with welfare reform in the 1990s, which curbed immigrants39。s impact is felt. Though its overall effect may be positive, its costs and benefits are distributed unevenly. David Card, an economist at UC Berkeley, notes that the ones who profit most directly from immigrants39。t quite sufficient.To get a better understanding of what39。s fears and insecurities. There39。re bad. Yet the consensus among most economists is that immigration, both legal and illegal, provides a small net boost to the economy. Immigrants provide cheap labor, lower the prices of everything from farm produce to new homes, and leave consumers with a little more money in their pockets. So why is there such a discrepancy between the perception of immigrants39。 One way of responding to your boss39。s second warning is that we should avoid running a greater risk by __________.49. s another case. Your leastfavorite reporter suggests a dumb story idea. This one should be easy, but it39。s trying to acplish and propose a Plan B that will make it happen without destroying what you39。t raise the stakes by challenging her authority. That issue is already decided. The third rule is to be ready to cite options and consequences. The boss39。t say no. She probably has something in mind when she makes suggestions, and it39。s finished. Enter the executive editor, who makes a suggestion requiring a morethanmodest rearrangement of the design and the addition of an information box. You want to scream: No! It39。ve been working on is nearly plete。s surprisingly difficult. This is especially true of editors, who by nature tend to be eager and engaged participants in everything they do. Consider these scenarios:It39。 s not true. Schwartz found that while maximizers ended up with better paying jobs than satisficers on average, they weren39。s picking one of 31 ice cream (36) _____ or deciding whether and when to get married. That sounds like a great thing. But as a recent study has shown, too many choices can make us (37) _____, unhappy – even paralyzed with indecision.That39。D) Work as a newspaper editor.Section CDirections: In this section, you will hear a passage three times. When the passage is read for the first time, you should listen carefully for its general idea. When the passage is read for the second time, you are required to fill in the blanks numbered from 36 to 43 with the exact words you have just heard. For blanks numbered from 44 to 46 you are required to fill in the missing information. For these blanks, you can either use the exact words you have just heard or write down the main points in your own words. Finally, when the passage is read for the third time, you should check what you have written.注意：此部分試題請(qǐng)?jiān)诖痤}卡2上作答。C) Offer help to crime victims.B) Do some research on local politics.There has been a rise in such crimes.D) They have aroused fear among the residents.35. A) W