单选题
When a new group of future business leaders graduate from the Harvard Business School next week, many of them will be
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a new oath that says, in effect, greed is not good.
Nearly 20 percent of the graduating class have signed "The M. B. A. Oath", a voluntary student-lead
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that the goal of a business manager is to "serve the greater good". It promises that Harvard M. B. A."s will act
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, ethically and stop themselves from advancing their "own narrow ambitions" at the expense of others.
What has happened to making money? That, of course, is
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at the heart of the Harvard curriculum. But at Harvard and other top business schools, there has been an
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of interest in ethics (道德) courses and in student activities—clubs, lectures, conferences—about personal and corporate responsibility and on how to
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business as more than a money-making enterprise,
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part of a large social community.
Those graduating today, business school professors say, are far more concerned about how
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affect the community, the lives of their workers and the environment. And business schools are responding with more courses, new centers specializing
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business ethics and, in the case of Harvard, student-lead efforts to bring about a professional code of conduct for M. B. A."s, not
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oaths that are taken by lawyers and doctors.
【正确答案】
C
【答案解析】[考点] 动宾搭配
[解析] 空格中要求填入一个动词，与宾语a new oath搭配。本题实际上考查的是对常用动词与不同名词搭配时的熟悉程度。相对来说，A项forming(形成，构成)和B项adopting(采纳；通过，收养)作为及物动词意思和用法都不太复杂，可以很快确定。从语义角度看，这两个词与a new oath搭配都不够合理，因此是干扰选项。C项taking和D项making往往与不同的名词构成固定的动宾搭配。就本句来说，宾语oath(誓言，誓约)必须与take搭配，而不跟make搭配。take a new oath意为“进行一次新的宣誓”，而另一个近义名词promise(保证)则是与make搭配。
【答案解析】[考点] 上下文逻辑关系
[解析] 从句子结构和所给选项可以看出，本题要求填入一个连接more than a money-making enterprise和part of a large social community的连接词。A项and表示并列关系，连接前后两部分时还可以与both搭配，构成“both...and...”，但不能与more than搭配；B项or表示选择，可以与either搭配，但同样不能与more than搭配。C项thus(因此)表示结果，与题意完全不符合。正确答案为表示转折关系的D项but。句中“how to view business as more than a money-making enterprise, but part of a large social community”意为：如何把公司看成不仅仅是赚钱的企业，而是更大的社会的一部分。
【正确答案】
B
【答案解析】[考点] 理解基础上的名词辨析
[解析] 从上一段我们了解到，美国一些顶尖商学院对伦理道德课程越来越有兴趣，学生活动也都关注如何把公司看成更大社会的一部分，而不仅仅是赚钱的企业。本段是通过学校教授的话进一步论证商学院学生所关心的内容。B项corporations(公司)与上一段最后一句中的corporate(公司的)，business(公司)，enterprise(企业)呼应，是正确答案。A项individuals意为“个人，个体”，它相对于“集体”，而且由从句的宾语之一the lives of their workers也可很快看出，A是干扰项。C项organizations(组织)和D项institutions(公共机构)所指范围很广，均不符合题意要求。
【正确答案】
C
【答案解析】[考点] 固定搭配
[解析] 本题要求填入一个能与分词specializing(专门研究)搭配的介词。四个选项中，只有C项in可以与该词构成一个固定搭配，其他选项都是干扰项。句中new centers specializing in business ethics意为“新成立的专门研究公司伦理道德的中心”。