题目内容
Text 3 Most firms’ annual general meetings (AGMs) owe more to North Korea than ancient Greece. By long-standing tradition, bosses make platitudinous speeches, listen to lone dissidents with the air of psychiatric nurses towards patients and wait for their own proposals to be rubber-stamped by the proxy votes of obedient institutional investors. According to Manifest, a shareholder-advice firm, 97% of votes cast across Europe last year backed management. So should corporate democrats be cheered by the rebellion over pay at Royal Dutch Shell At the oil giant’s AGM on May 19th, 59% of voting shareholders sided against pay packages for top executives. In particular they disliked 4.2 million ($ 5.8 million) in shares dished out to five executives, which comprised about 12% of their total pay for 2008．Under the firm’s rules, such awards should be granted only if Shell’s total return in the year is in the top three of its peer group. In 2007 and 2008, Shell came a very close fourth, so the firm decided to pay out anyway. Shell is hardly a poster child for malfeasance: it is performing well, its pay is similar to that at other big oil firms and its shareholders previously gave directors discretion to bend the rules. They have used it to cut pay in the past. Still, although the vote is not binding, it is seriously embarrassing. The turnout was decent, at about 50%, and several big fund managers were clearly furious. The payouts have already been made and probably cannot be reversed, but Shell will be in disgrace for a while. Jorma Ollila, its chairman, said he took the vote "very seriously" and promised to "reflect carefully". After GSK, a British drugs firm, had a rebellion on pay in 2003, it completely redrew its pay policy. It is not just Shell that is facing unrest. Rough markets and a wider political uproar over pay have fuelled discontent across corporate Europe. Almost half of the voting shareholders at BP, another oil giant, failed to support its pay policies in April. At Rio Tinto, a mining firm with a habit of digging holes for itself, a fifth of voting shareholders rejected its remuneration policy. So far this year 15% of votes cast on pay in Britain have dissented, compared with 7% last year. In continental Europe owners are grumpy, too: in February almost a third of voting shareholders at Novartis, a Swiss drugs firm, demanded the right to approve its remuneration policy each year. But taking bosses to task for their ever-escalating salaries is not a substitute for keen oversight of performance and strategy. At Royal Bank of Scotland, which had to be rescued by taxpayers last year, 90% of voting shareholders rejected its pay policies last month. Yet back in August 2007, 95% of them ticked the box in support of the acquisition of ABN AMRO, the deal that brought the bank to its knees. Which of the following may NOT be the reason that "fuelled discontent across corporate Europe"
查看答案
搜索结果不匹配？点我反馈
更多问题
阅读下面的短文，文中有15处空白，每处空白给出4个选项，请根据短文的内容从4个选项中选择1个最佳答案。 Plants still give us our oxygen. If every plant (51) , you’ll die too. Without plants, you can’ t breathe. But you also need energy. You need it to breathe and to move. In fact, you need (52) to live. Some of the first living things couldn’t (53) their own energy. They needed the energy of sunlight, but they couldn’t make it themselves. (54) could they get it There was only one answer at the (55) . That is still true today. Animals still have to get their energy from. plants. Plants keep you (56) . Sometimes we eat the plants (57) . But sometimes an animal eats the plants (58) , then we eat the animal. Apples and oranges grow on trees—plants. Bread comes from plants in a (59) . We get eggs from birds, but the birds eat plants. (Or they eat insects, and the insects have eaten plants. ) We can eat (60) from a deer, but the deer has eaten plants. We eat (61) , and the fish has already eaten plants. (Or it ate other fish—and they ate plants. ) We don’ t eat (62) , but we drink milk. And the cow has eaten the grass for us. Every part of your food comes from plants. When you eat part of an animal, ask yourself, what did this animal eat If it ate other animals, ask yourself, what did they eat You will always (63) a plant. So what is really keeping you alive The green plants of the world are catching sunlight for you. You are using the energy from our own (64) . You are (65) the sun.
详细叙述病毒性肺炎病理变化。
阅读下面的短文，文章中有5处空白，文章后有6组文字，请根据文章的内容选择5组文字，将其分别放回文章原有位置，以恢复文章原貌。 That a person could live in the modern world without synthetic substances is probably possible, but whoever tried to do it would soon miss many common things. (46) Just imagine how many varieties of plastics there are. They can be harder than wood or .softer than rubber. They can even be made resistant to fire, water and electricity. Whoever visits the world’s market places will find that plastics are being made and used everywhere. Plastic articles can be produced at a rather low cost. The machines for molding them are not large or heavy. Most of the products can be stored and transported easily. (47) . As a matter of fact, many kinds of materials for clothing have plastics in them. They are made of plastic fibres and are known by special names such as nylon or dacron. Clothing made of plastic fibres has certain advantages over that of natural fibres like cotton, wool, or silk. (48) . (49) The earliest variety of plastics was called "celluloid". It appeared on market over a hundred years ago. In 1912, an American scientist presented to the world a hard plastic material known as "bakelite". The 1940’s saw a faster development of plastics. An even larger variety of plastic materials came into practical use. Now plastics find wide application not only in our daily life, but also in engineering. The Germans have manufactured a car which is almost completely made of plastics. The famous British engine builders have produced an aeroplane engine made mostly of plastics. It is really true that plastics are for everyone. And the fact that the total volume of plastics in use is on the increase suggests that more and better plastics will be made in the near future. (50) . A. Besides plastic pens, combs and tooth brushes, he would be without many kinds of cloth as well as some necessary parts for radios and television sets. B. The history of plastics is longer than you might expect. C. That’s why factories for making them can be found in many countries. D. The former is lighter in weight, easier to wash and dry, keeps in shape much longer and does not wear out so quickly. E. It is not likely that plastic fibers will compelely take the place of natural fibers. F. Perhaps we could call it the Plastic Age.
长期严重慢性支气管炎可导致什么后果
微信支付 
支付宝支付