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试卷代号:1361 国家开放大学(中央广播电视大学)2018 年秋季学期开放本科期末考试 国际商务交际试题 2019 年 1 月 注意事项 一、将你的学号、姓名及分校(工作站)名称填写在答题纸的规定 栏内。考试结束后，把试卷和答题纸放在桌子上。试卷和答题纸均不 得带出考场。监考人收完考卷和答题纸后才可离开考场。 二、仔细读懂题目的说明，并按题目要求和答题示例答题。答案一 定要写在答题纸的指定位置上，写在试卷上的答案无效。 三、用蓝、黑圆珠笔或钢笔答题，使用铅笔答题无效。 1092 Part One Reading (20 points) Today most companies that are active in global markets have ethical codes of conduct. These codes are public documents and can usually be found on company Web sites. They are an accepted part of governance. The growing sophistication of these codes results in ethics training programs that often include complicated hypothetical questions. Ethics trainers teach employees to solve problems by reconciling legal requirements , company policies , and conflicting cultural norms. Businesses in other countries are also adopting ethics codes and helping employees live up to the standards. The CEO of a multinational construction firm has worked very hard to rid his company of corruption. The battle against bribery in an industry where corruption is rampant hasn t been easy. Yet the company experienced success after installing a company lawyer as head of compliance. Over three decades ago , the U. S. government passed the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977. It prohibits payments to foreign officials for the purpose of obtaining or retaining business. But the law applied only to U. S. companies. Therefore , they were at a decided disadvantage when competing against less scrupulous companies from other nations. U. S. companies complained that they lost billions of dollars in contracts every year because they refused to