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(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 b A. In the AGM there are some Greek traditions to be followed. B. In the AGM, most of the time investors will vote in favour of the company’s proposals without proposing any objections. C. AGM was first created by North Korea and then accepted by European countries. D. In the AGM it is always the case that any proposal will encounter severe debate, as Greeks are in strong favour of rhetoric. [多项选择]Directions: In general, people are living longer now. Discuss the causes of this phenomenon. Use specific reasons and details to develop your essay.
[填空题]In general, people have signs and symptoms of SAD more possibly in spring.
[单项选择]In general, people talk about two groups of colors: warm colors and cool colors. (1) in psychology think that there are also two (2) of people: people who prefer warm colors and people who prefer cool colors.
The warm colors are red, orange and yellow. (3) there are warm colors and a lot of light, people usually want to be (4) . People think that red, (5) , is exciting. People who like to be with (6) like red. The cool colors are green, blue and violet. These colors, (7) warm colors, are relaxing. Where there are cool colors, people are usually (8) . People who like to spend time (9) often (10) cool colors. Red may he exciting, but one researcher says that time seems to pass (11) in a room with warm colors than in a room with cool colors. He thinks that a warm color, such as red (12) orange, is a good color for a (an) (13) or restaurant. People who a A. alone B. lazy C. together with others D. lonely 我来回答: 提交
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