My inspiration is my grandmother, who"s still alive at 96. She raised me from the time I was 8 on a dairy farm in Wisconsin. In another era she could have done what I do, although I didn"t know what a CEO was then. I"m a real go-getter and don"t know any other way. I tell my 12-year-old daughter, if you have a test, why not try for an A? I don"t believe in half doing something. In my career, the biggest shock came in my 20"s. I loved my job as a field systems analyst at 3M, and wanted my first manager"s job at headquarters. They even told me I was the best candidate, totally qualified. Then they told me, "It"s not possible because you"re a woman." I was so shocked that I quit. I had this feeling of being totally blown away as I crawled back to Atlanta. I preach to people: there are no bad bosses. You learn how not to treat people. My worst boss was full of himself and wanted to micromanage. The man didn"t have a complimentary bone in his body. I still have my performance review he wrote in small anal print. It was winter in Minnesota. I didn"t want to drive. I was out the door at 5 p.m. because the bus left the front door at 5:06. He put that down in my review how fast I was out the door. It didn"t matter the rest of the year I was there until 6 or 7. Later, when I switched companies. I attended an off-site strategy meeting in Florida. There was a barbecue and the meeting continued on into the evening. My boss" boss threw a towel across the room and said, "Clean up, Carol." I caught the towel, went over and scrubbed his face. Everybody in the room went "Ohhhh." The luckiest thing in my career is that I have a computer science degree. Doors opened wide at a time when it wasn"t necessarily great for women. If I could wave a magic wand, I"d have every girl pass college freshman calculus.

单选题 It can be inferred from the first paragraph that the author______.

单选题 What is the biggest shock in the writer"s career?

单选题 It didn"t matter the rest of the year I was there until 6 or 7(Para. 3) implies that______.

【正确答案】 B

【答案解析】解析：本题是推论题。根据上下文，此处的It didn"t matter不是一般意义上的"没关系"，而是"不重要"、"于事无补了"。It didn"t matter the rest of the year I was there until 6 or 7的大致意思是：这一年的其余时间内，我一直呆到6、7点钟才下班也不重要了。由此可推知，不管她多么努力，老板也没有好印象了。

单选题 Everybody in the room went "Ohhhh"(Para. 4) because______.

【正确答案】 D

【答案解析】解析：本题是推论题。参见文章第4段：My boss" boss threw a towel across the room and said，"Clean up，Carol"．I caught the towel，went over and scrubbed his face．老板的上司对作者粗鲁无礼，将毛巾扔给她，当众喝令她打扫干净。作者以牙还牙，将扔给她的毛巾直接抹到老板上司的脸上。她的这一举动显得太不合常规了，由此引起了大家的惊叫。