根据网考网考试中心的统计分析，以下试题在2019/2/24日考研习题练习中，答错率较高，为：73%
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Inevitably, as the week rolled on, details of the affair rolled out. The other party was re2 ported to beDebra Peabody, who is unmarried and has worked forBoeing for 25 years. The couple were said to have first got together atBoeing’s annual retreat at PalmDesert,California in January.After that much of the affair must have been conducted from a distance: Mr. Stonecipher’s office is atBoeing’s headquarters inChicago; Ms Peabody runs the firm’s government-relations office in Washington,DC、They exchanged e-mails, it seems, as office lovers tend to do these days, and therein probably lay Mr Stonecipher’s downfall
Lewis Platt,Boeing’s chairman, said that Mr Stonecipher broke a company rule that says: "Employees will not engage in conduct or activity that may raise questions as to the company’s honesty, impartiality, reputation or otherwise cause embarrassment to the company." Having an affair with a fellow employee is not, of itself, against company rules; causing embarrassment toBoeing is. It seems that the board judged that the contents of the lovers’ e-mails would have been bad forBoeing had they been made publiC、Gone are the days when a board considered such matters none of its business, asCitibank’s did in 1991 when its boss, John Reed, became the talk of Wail Street for having an affair with a stewardess onCiti’s corporate jet.
AtBoeing, a whistleblower is said to have forwarded the messages to Mr Platt. In general, e-mails are encrypted and not accessible to anyone who does not know the sender’s passworD、But many firms install software designed to search electronic communications for key words such as, "sex" and "CEO".A、study last year of 840American firms by theAmerican ManagementAssociation found that 60% of them check external e-mails (incoming and outgoing), while 27% scrutinize internal messages between employees. Sweet nothings whispered by the water cooler may travel less far these days than electronic billets doux.
Boeing is particularly sensitive to embarrassment at the moment. Mr. Stonecipher was recalled from retirement only 15 months ago, after the company’s previous boss, PhilCondit, and its chief financial officer, Michael Sears, had left in the wake of a scandal involving an illegal job offer to a Pentagon official.
Mr Stonecipher, a crusty former number two atBoeing, was brought back specifically to raise the company’s ethical standards and to help it be seen in its main ( and affectedly puritanical) market, in Washington,DC, as squeaky clean. Verbally explicit extra-marital affairs are inconsistent with such a strategy, it seems, though they are not yet enough to bring down future kings ofEnglanD、
In corporate life, such affairs are hardly unusual. One survey found that one-quarter of all long-term relationships start at work; another found that over 40% of executives say they have been involved in an affair with a colleague, and that in haft of these cases one or other party was married at the time. Many a boss has married his assistant and lived happily ever after.Boeing apparently used to accept this: Mr.Condit’s fourth wife was a colleague before they marrieD、
网考网参考答案：D，答错率：73%
网考网试题解析：
[解题思路] 推理题。文章最后一句说“波音公司接受了Condit先生与其第四个妻子在结婚前是同事关系的事实”，而全文又讲到“波音因为Stonecipher与公司雇员有婚外情而迫使其辞职”，证明波音公司调整了其在“公司恋情”方面的战略。 document.getElementById("warp").style.display="none"; document.getElementById("content").style.display="block"; 查看试题解析出处>>
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