TEXT 1 参考答案
1.A。细节题：原文第1段，倒数第3行的how could…?直接提到了bonus payouts 就是说 profits。
2.C。细节题：原文中出现outside directors有几处，helpful but less biased advisor，但是B选项用的是executive, 拼凑答an，D 选项也是一样。最后一句 weathered their own crises对应forecasters。
3.C。细节题：原文是若干个并列，stock is likely to perform worse对应答an， 迷惑选项是B，但是主语不一致20%是probability不是earnings。
4.A。推理题：原文对应firms who want to …..说想留住outside director就是增加incentive。
5.B。态度题：文章各个段落都说outside director的方面。因此是positive。
Text 2
Whatever happened to the death of newspaper? A year ago the end seemed near. The recession threatened to remove the advertising and readers that had not already fled to the internet. Newspapers like the San Francisco Chronicle were chronicling their own doom. America’s Federal Trade commission launched a round of talks about how to save newspapers. Should they become charitable corporations? Should the state subsidize them ? It will hold another meeting soon. But the discussions now seem out of date.
In much of the world there is the sign of crisis. German and Brazilian papers have shrugged off the recession. Even American newspapers, which inhabit the most troubled come of the global industry, have not only survived but often returned to profit. Not the 20% profit margins that were routine a few years ago, but profit all the same.