填空题Directions: Read the following text and
choose the best answer from the right column to complete each of the unfinished
statements in the left column. There are two extra choices in the right column.
Mark your answers on theANSWER SHEET. A
young consultant's life is tiring. A typical week starts before dawn on Monday,
with a rush to the airport and a flight to wherever the client is based. A
typical brain-for-hire can expect to stay in hotels at least three nights a
week, texting a distant lover. "It's quite normal to spend a year living out of
a suitcase," sighs one London-based consultant. An ex-McKinseyite in New York
adds that 15 to 18-hour weekdays are normal and six to eight-hour Saturdays and
Sundays common. It can be draining, she admits. So the job
appeals to "insecure over-achievers"—a phrase widely used in the industry—"who
are always worried that they haven't done enough work," jokes a former employee
of Bain & Company. Some 60-65% of consultants are recent college-leavers.
Most drop out within a few years and take more settled jobs elsewhere in the
business world, where their experience and contacts allow them to do better than
their less-travelled counterparts. The elite consultancies have
offices in big cities, which is where ambitious young people want to live. The
best-paid jobs are in places like London, New York and Shanghai. Such cities are
also where the culture and dating opportunities are richest. "Everything that
happens, happens in London," says Lina Paulauskaite of the Young Management
Consultancies Association, speaking of Britain. Other countries are less
unipolar, but all have a divide between the big city and the remote
areas. Companies based outside the big cities also need "clever
people doing clever stuff", as one consultant puts it. "But", he adds, citing a
litany of dull suburban towns in which he has managed projects, "there is no way
in hell I'd have taken a permanent job in one of those places." A recent
graduate working at a rival firm agrees: "I wouldn't have considered working for
a firm outside London." Such attitudes are frustrating for
firms in Portsmouth or Peoria. But consultancies benefit from remote areas. They
recruit bright young things in the metropolis and then hire out their brains to
firms in the sticks. This is one reason why consultants have to travel so
much. The system works, more or less, for everyone. Firms in
the provinces get to borrow talent they could not easily hire. And young
consultants get to experience life in the real world before returning to the
capital to party with their friends at the weekend. They have it all; except
enough sleep. A．holds that consultants have to travel
much B．claims that everything may happen in London
C．says that it is not uncommon to have long working hours
D．states that consultants always worry they have done too
little E．admits that it is regretful to work for a company
outside London F．argues that small cities also need smart
people to do smart things G．thinks that young consultants get
to experience life in the real world