单选题 The banking industry urgently needs to hire more women in senior jobs if it is to banish(驱除) the dangerous culture of "groupthink" that contributed to the financial crisis, a report by a cross-party group of MPs recommends.
While more women in the city would not have prevented the global meltdown (崩溃) in the financial system, more diversity may have helped senior figures question each other rather than all too often adopting a group of people's mentality, according to the Treasury select committee.
The 14-member committee--whose only woman is Northampton MP Sally Keeble--stopped short of calling for quotas on female board representation in financial firms or for legal changes to boost the image of women in the city. But it did criticize the financial sector's slowness in combating a family-unfriendly long-hours culture and highlighted a gender pay gap that is even wider than for the economy as a whole.
The committee launched its investigation into city diversity last summer. As it worked through a wider postmortem (事后剖析) of the financial meltdown, the group of MPs sought to address the widely asked question of whether more women at the top would have prevented the crisis.

单选题 To get rid of "groupthink", the banking industry should hire more______.
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】[解析] 细节辨认题。由线索词group—think和the banking industry定位到文章首句。原文指出，跨党派的国会议员建议，银行业如果想驱除危险的趋同思维文化．就应该多雇用女性高层人员，因此B)正确。
单选题 According to the passage, one factor of the financial crisis is______.
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】[解析] 细节辨认题。由线索词financial crisis定位到原文首句。文中首句提到，这种趋同思维文化会导致金融危机，说明导致金融危机的一个因素是趋同思维文化，故C)正确。
单选题 According to the Treasury select committee, more women are demanded for senior jobs in that they can______.
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】[解析] 细节推断题。由线索词Treasury select committee定位到原文第二段。文中说英国财政部特别委员会称，虽然更多的女性不能阻止金融系统的全球性灾难，但多样化可以帮助高层决策者们互相质疑，而不是采纳一群人同样的思维观点，因此B)正确。
单选题 How is the 14-member committee's opinion on family-unfriendly long-hours culture?
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】[解析] 观点态度题。由线索词14—member committee和long—hours culture定位到第三段第二句。文中说有十四名成员的委员会批评财政部门，由此可知委员持有批评的态度，他们的观点是否定的，A)“否定的”与之相符。
单选题 The group of MPs sought to find the answer for the question______.
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】[解析] 细节推断题。由线索词sought，question定位到原文最后一段的末句。文章最后说委员会在去年夏天就开始训查城市中的男女分化，随着对经济危机的剖析．同会议员们寻求解决普遍关心的问题，即更多的女性高层人员是否能阻止经济危机的发生。由此可知，B)为正确答案。