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A survey of university backgrounds of heads of major global companies found that Harvard in the United States was the most likely place that they have studied in.
The Times Higher Education magazine ranked the universities attended by chief executive officers(CEO) of Fortune Global 500 companies. There are four U．S. universities in the top 10, with three from France, two from Japan and one from South Korea. The highest ranked U．K. university is Oxford in 21st place.
This league table, described as the Alma Mater Index, shows which universities around the world taught the bosses of some of the world’s biggest companies. One in twenty had a degree from a single institution, Harvard. This included Margaret
C． Whitman of HewlettPackard, Jeffrey R. Immelt of General Electric and Vittorio Colao of Vodafone.
But the top 10 for producing business leaders does not contain all the usual names that appear at the top of university rankings. Oxford and Cambridge are absent, but the University of Pennsylvania in the U．S. and Keio University in Japan are included, along with three French universities, headed by the École Polytechnique.
Across the top 100, universities from the U．S. dominate , followed by universities in China, Japan, France and Germany. There are more CEOs who went to university in Asia than in Europe. In terms of national comparisons, U．K. universities produced the sixth highest number of global chief executives, with Oxford in 21st place and Cambridge in 45th place.
But even though Harvard might have taught the biggest number of bosses from the top 500 companies, it was not attended by any of the heads of the biggest 10 companies, who were from a more diverse range of universities.
Royal Dutch Shell is headed by a graduate of Zurich University of Applied Sciences; Walmart is headed by a student of Georgia Tech and Exxon Mobil has a chief executive from the University of Texas, Autin. Three of the leaders of these biggest companies went to university in China and the head of Volkswagen went to university in Stuttgart.
语篇导读 哪所大学培养的世界级公司的CEO多？《Times Higher Education》杂志给出了答案。
1．How many Asia universities are among the world’s top 10 universities for global CEOs?
A．One． B．Two.
C．Three． D．Four.
解析 C 细节理解题。根据第二段第二句可知，在这项调查中排名前10的大学中日本有2所，韩国有1所，即亚洲有3所，故选C项。
2.What does the underlined word “dominate” in Paragraph 5 probably mean?
A．Decrease． B．Accelerate.
C．Take the lead． D．Make great progress.
解析 C 词义猜测题。根据画线词后面的followed(紧随其后的)可知，画线词应该表达“领先”之意，故选C项。
3．What can we learn about the U．K. universities?
A．Cambridge University ranks highest among them.
B．None of them are among the top 10 list of the survey.
C．They performed better than French universities on the list.
D．They produced the second highest number of global CEOs.
解析 B 细节理解题。根据第二段最后一句可知，英国排名最高的是牛津大学，位居第21名，由此推知，英国没有一所大学在这项调查结果中位居世界前10名，故选B项。
4．Which of the following can be the best title for the text?
A．The Rankings of the Famous Universities in the World
B．Which Is Described as the Best University in the World?
C．Students Are Currently Entering Various Topclass Universities
D．Which University Tops the League Table of Where Bosses Studied?
解析 D 标题归纳题。本文为一项调查报告的结果，综观全文，再结合每段第一句可知，本文重点介绍的是世界级公司的CEO曾经就读的、位居《Times Higher Education》杂志调查排行榜的大学，故选D项。
