09-10第二学期商英阅读期末试卷.doc

光华管理学院 2009 – 2010 学年第二学期期末考试试题（A卷） 课程名称：商务英语阅读） 任课教师： 考试日期：2010年6月30日 考试时间： 1.5 小时 学生类别：本科 年级班号： 考生姓名： 考生学号： 考试方式：闭卷 试 题：（注意：答案一律写在答题纸，否则不计分） ———————————————————————————— Reading comprehension (55％) Passage (15%) In the Black Stuff Barack Obama’s administration has promised to keep its boot firmly applied to BP’s neck. Many people would be happier if the boot were a blade. Fishermen who worry that their livelihoods are in peril; shareholders who have seen the value of BP’s shares plunge; local Democratic politicians who want to make sure they cannot be blamed for reacting too slowly: the list of boot-and-blade wielders is growing longer by the day. In practice BP’s neck means Tony Hayward’s. Just a few weeks ago Mr. Hayward was one of the world’s most celebrated chief executives, responsible for delivering $5.6 billion in profits in the first quarter of this year. Now, after the collapse of a rig leased by BP in the Gulf of Mexico, costing 11 lives and threatening environmental catastrophe, he is in the meat grinder of public opprobrium along with Lloyd Blankfein, chief executive of Goldman Sachs, and Akio Toyoda, president of Toyota. So far he has done a creditable job of crisis-management. He has been a whirlwind of activity – moving to a Ramada Inn in Houma, Louisiana, meeting Mr. Obama’s deputies and giving back-to-back interviews on American television. He has thrown the full might of his company’s resources at the problem, sending 2,500 people to help with the clean-up and chartering a sizeable armada. He has accepted “full responsibility” for the disaster – but also made it clear that the rig was being operated by a subcontractor, Transocean. Things may yet get worse for BP. The company faces a tidal wave of litigation and an epidemic of stories about oil-drenched sea birds and devastated wetlands. The final bill for the clean-up, which is costing BP about $6m a day, could well exceed $10 billion. Mr. Hayward could yet