A) unless B) when C) since D) although

B) way

C) form

D) fashion

The more women and minorities make their way into the ranks of management, the more they seem to want to talk a bout things formerly judged to be best left unsaid. The newcomers also tend to see office matters with a fresh eye, in the process sometimes coming up with critical analyses of the forces that shape everyone' s experience in the organization.

Consider the novel views of Harvey Coleman of Atlanta on the subject of getting ahead.

Coleman is black. He spent 11 years with IBM, half of them working in management department, and now serves as a consultant to the likes of AT & T, Coca Cola, Prudential, and Merch. Coleman says that based on what he's seen at big companies, he weighs the different elements that make for long term career success as follows: performance counts a mere 10%; image 30%; and exposure, a full 60%.

Coleman concludes that excellent job performance is so common these days that while doing your work well may win you pay increases, it won't secure you the big promotion.

He finds that advancement more often depends on how many people know you and your work, and how high up they are. Ridiculous beliefs？ Not too many people, especially many women and members of minority races who, like Coleman, feel that the scales have dropped from their eyes.

"Women and blacks in organizations work under false beliefs, "says Kaleel Jamison, a New York based management consultant who helps corporations deal with these issues. "They think that if you work hard, you' 11 get ahead that someone in authority will reach down and give you a promotion." She added, "Most women and blacks are so frightened that people will think they've gotten ahead because of their sex or color that they play down their visibility." Her advice to those folks: learn the ways that white males have traditionally used to find their way into the spotlight.

26. According to the passage, "things formerly judged to be best left unsaid" (Para. 1) probably refers to"______".

A) the opinions which contradict the established beliefs

B) criticisms that shape everyone's experience

C)the tendencies that help the newcomers to see office matters with a fresh eye

D) the ideas which usually come up with new ways of management in the organization

A) work as a consultant to your superiors

B) project a favorable image to the people around you

C) let your superiors know how good you are

D) perform. well your tasks given by your superiors

A) Rise slowly.

B) Breathe faster.

C) Relax completely.

D) Breathe helium.

A) was influenced by

B) happened at the same time as

C) began to grow rapidly

D) ensured the success of

The government is to ban payments to witnesses by newspapers seeking to buy up people involved in prominent cases (1) trial of Rosemary West. In a significant (2) of legal controls over the press. Lord Irvine, the Lord Chancellor, will introduce a (3) bill that will propose making payments to witnesses (4) and will strictly control the amount of (5) that can be given to a case (6) a trial begins. In a letter to Gerald Kaufman, chairman of the House of commons media select committee. Lord Irvine said he (7) with a committee report this year which said that self regulation did not (8) sufficient control. (9) of the letter came two days after Lord Irvine caused a (10) of media protest when he said the (11) of privacy controls contained in European legislation would be left to judges (12) to Parliament.

The Lord Chancellor said introduction of the Human Rights Bill, which (13) the European Convention on Human Rights legally (14) in Britain, laid down that everybody was (15) to privacy and that public figures could go to court to protect themselves and their families.

"Press freedoms will be in safe hands (16) our British judges," he said. Witness payments became an (17) after West was sentenced to 10 life sentences in 1995. Up to 19 witnesses were (18) to have received payments for telling their stories to newspapers.

Concerns were raised (19) witnesses might be encouraged to exaggerate their stories in court to (20) guilty verdicts.

1. A) as to

B) for instance

C) in particular

D) such as

B ) interpretation

C) exhibition

D) demonstration

B) makes

C) sets

D) turns

B) credited

C) entitled

D) qualified

B) remarked

C) said

D) told