根据网考网考试中心的统计分析，以下试题在2019/2/15日考研习题练习中，答错率较高，为：95%
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Read the following four texts.Answer the questions below each text by choosingA,B,C、orD、Mark your answers onANSWER SHEET 1.
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It was the last thing the hurricane-scarred city needed to hear. Tidewater was founded here a little more than 50 years ago, and kept its main office in New Orleans throughout the oil bust of the 1980s and the following decades of industry consolidation, when dozens of energy firms all but abandoned New Orleans for greener pastures on the Texas coast. In the nearly two years since Hurricane Katrina ravaged the city, the pace of exodus has accelerateD、complicating New Orleans’ halting recovery; according to the local business weeklyCityBusiness, the metropolitan area has lost 12 of the 23 publicly traded companies headquartered here, taking white-collar jobs, corporate community support and sorely needed taxpayers with them—and threatening to leave the city even more dependent on a tourismbased economy than it was before the storm.
Making matters worse, some observers say, is the city leadership’s apparent indifference 10 the bloodletting. Just weeks after Hurricane Katrina inAugust 2005, Mayor Ray Nagin, then in the very early stages of a heated reelection bid, dismissed warnings that many companies, like displaced residents, might opt to relocate. Nagin said he hoped they would stay. "But if they don’t," he said with typical glibness, "I’ll send them a postcarD、 "The comment might have been written off as one of Nagin’s many verbal missteps.But in the months that followed, the warnings turned out in many cases to be true, even as the city’s rebuilding effort languished, infrastructure repairs limped along, the state reimbursement program for damaged homes faltered and the New Orleans’ infamous crime rate made a sickening comeback.
New Orleans "wasn’t considered a great city for doing business before the storm. People were always dribbling out," says Peter Ricchiuti, a professor of economics at Tulane University. While many of the companies that made it through the storm could stand to benefit from the city’ s recovery, he says, Katrina may have hastened the loss of high-paying energy jobs. "We’re losing the white-collar jobs and keeping the blue-collar jobs," he says. "We’ re becoming much more of a blue-collar oil industry."
One of the latest examples isChevronCorp., which is building new offices in the northern suburbs, 40 miles north of the city across Lake Pontchartrain, and plans to transfer 550 employees from New Orleans toCovington by the end of the year. That would take well-paid people out of downtown New Orleans, a move that will impact the central business district’s economy. "We made the decision in May, 2006, when our employees were making important housing decisions," says Qi Wilson, aChevron spokesperson. The company, like many employees, decided the north shore offered better security should another hurricane strike, along with fewer of the post-Katrina headaches that still plague the city. The move "will make it easier to retain the talent we have, and to attract new talent," Wilson says.<
网考网参考答案：A，答错率：95%
网考网试题解析：
[解题思路] 目的细节题。本题答案需要综合文章最后三句话，倒数第三句说：公司的决定是2006年做出的，当时，员工就做出了重要的住房决策；倒数第二句说：像很多雇员一样，公司认为如果再有飓风来袭，北部地区提供了更大的安全保障，同时飓风后带来的头痛问题也相对较少：，最后一句说，这次搬迁也将为公司保留和招揽人才。综合起来，就是为了找到对生意和生活来说更加安全的地点。 document.getElementById("warp").style.display="none"; document.getElementById("content").style.display="block"; 查看试题解析出处>>
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