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John Tiernan has spent five years trouble-shooting as an interim manager, hired on short-term assignments by a variety of companies to sort out their problems. He has no desire to return to the certainties of a permanent position, because now, whichever company he is working for, he is perpetually involved in a meaningful task that’s critical to the business at that time. Though he admits that sorting out the aftermath of other people’s misjudgments can be frustrating. At first he found the gaps between jobs traumatic, but now he has got used to them, so when a job ends he simply books a holiday.
Mr Tiernan is part of a relatively small pool of managers used by agency BIE. Whereas most suppliers of interim managers have large databases, which they tap into in order to match a manager’s qualifications and experience with a client company’s requirements, BIE tries to develop a good understanding of its managers’ personalities and of hew they ar
A. There are too few agencies to meet the demand.
B. There is inconsistency in what agencies deliver
C. Too few companies are aware of the benefits.
D. There are too few good interim managers.

[单项选择]John Tiernan has spent five years trouble-shooting as an interim manager, hired on short-term assignments by a variety of companies to sort out their problems. He has no desire to return to the certainties of a permanent position, because now, whichever company he is working for, he is perpetually involved in a meaningful task that’s critical to the business at that time. Though he admits that sorting out the aftermath of other people’s misjudgments can be frustrating. At first he found the gaps between jobs traumatic, but now he has got used to them, so when a job ends he simply books a holiday.
Mr Tiernan is part of a relatively small pool of managers used by agency BIE. Whereas most suppliers of interim managers have large databases, which they tap into in order to match a manager’s qualifications and experience with a client company’s requirements, BIE tries to develop a good understanding of its managers’ personalities and of hew they are likely to fit into a company throu
A. the opportunities to have extended holidays
B. the chance to learn from other people’s mistakes
C. the contact with a number of different companies
D. the knowledge that the work he is doing is important

[单项选择]For the past five years, which one has sold more digital cameras in the United States（）
A. Kodak.
B. Sony.
C. Canon.
D. Olympus.

[简答题]It has now been five years since Margaret Thatcher resigned as Britain’s Prime Minister. In her heyday she strode the international headlines with such bravura that she seemed inevitable, a natural force. The world stage seemed just the right size for her, as she chaffed her conservative soul mate Ronald Reagan or flattered the "new man", Mikhail Gorbachev.
Now the political world has begun to focus on the immensity of her achievement. How on earth did she manage to get there She was elected to Parliament at 32 in 1958. She parried her way through the complacent, male-dominated councils of power—no woman had ever roiled those waters. Couldn’t the old boys see her coming After all, there was nothing subtle about her personality or her approach.
As The Path to Power, the second volume of her autobiography, makes clear, Thatcher was probably too simple and direct for the Tories, with their heavy baggage of class and compromise. She traveled light, proud of her ro