| As far back as he could remember, Larry
had longed to go to Hollywood and become a film star. The young man’s hopes for
success were broken again and again, however. Hollywood just did not seem
interested. When he first came to California Larry had decided never to give up
and return home without success. Therefore, he kept on trying. Someday, he told
himself, his big opportunity would come. Larry found a job parking cars for one of Hollywood’s big restaurants. His pay was basic, but since the guests were kind enough to give him more money, he managed to make a living. One day he recognized an important film director driving into the parking lot and getting out of his car. Larry had recently heard that the man was ready to make a new picture. Larry got into the car and prepared to drive it on into the lot and park it. Th A. Working as a waiter. B. Becoming a film star. C. Parking cars for film stars. D. Never going home. [单项选择]Quite apart from any awkwardness in the way he handled the hostile bid by rival Oracle for the firm he was running, Craig Conway seems to have been an unpopular CEO of PeopleSoft, a large enterprise-software company. Three managers who reported directly to him were apparently close to resigning in frustration, and the board was unhappy about "mis-statements" he made to analysts. So even though there was no "smoking gun", as the board put it, Mr. Conway was fired on October 1st and replaced by the firm’s founder, David Duffield.
Mr. Duffield’s brief is now to address Mr. Conway’s perceived shortcomings and his obsession with fending off the $ 7.7 billion takeover bid from Oracle. At the same time, says Paul Hamerman of Forrester, a research firm, Mr. Conway offered no compelling technological vision for PeopleSoft, and seemed deaf to "quite a noise level of customer complaints". Mr. Conway’s firing prompted much speculation that PeopleSoft might now be more prepared to negotiate wi A. tactfully handled oracle’s hostile bid. B. induced the resign of his three managers. C. ignored customers’ grievances. D. is technologically illiterate. [单项选择]There was something （peculiar） in the way he smiles.
A. strange B. different C. wrong D. funny 我来回答: 提交
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