[单项选择]Passage Four
Like everyone else at eBay’s San Jose, Calif., campus, John Donahoe sits in a cubicle (隔间). Though this is one of the Internet company’s oldest commonplaces, the company’s 6-ft. 5-in. new CEO really does use the tiny space as his office.
Tough love is a very fitting description for the Chicago native’s eBay tenure so far. In the nine months since assuming the top job, the former Dartmouth basketball player, 48, has shown a penchant for shaking things up. In October he acquired three companies on the same day that he laid off 10% of eBay’s 16,000 workers worldwide.
Although you’d think that eBay’s flagship marketplace business, a site where people go to buy and sell stuff, would flourish in a downturn, it has stopped growing. It’s still unclear how badly the credit crisis and buying slowdown will affect an e-commerce value site like eBay, which does half its business outside the U.S. During the 2001 recession, eBay’s marketplace contin
A. laying off the personnel
B. shaking things up
C. acquiring companies
D. assuming the top job