Section II Reading Comprehension
Part A
Directions：
Read the following four texts. Answer the questions after each text by choosing A，B，C or D. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1.
（40points）
Text 1
Ruth Simmons joined Goldman Sachs’s board as an outside director in January 2000：a year later she became president of Brown University. For the rest of the decade she apparently managed both roles without attracting much eroticism. But by the end of 2009 Ms. Simmons was under fire for having sat on Goldman’s compensation committee；how could she have let those enormous bonus payouts pass unremarked？By February the next year Ms. Simmons had left the board. The position was just taking up too much time，she said.
本段主要讲述了Ruth Simmons的个人经历。作为高盛董事会的外部独董，她在2009年被抨击，原因是她任凭董事会发放了高额的奖金而没有引起人们的
关注（这是独董的职责）。之后她就离开了高盛董事会（本段并没有太多的谈到时间的背景，当时正值美国金融危机，作为大投行在亏损严重的情况下发放高额奖金会引起人们的非议，作为独董应该制止这种自私的行为）。
从考点设置来说，本段整体作为例子，应该是为下文的观点做铺垫。但本段第三句带有转折+冒号解释+反问，也属于重要的考点结构，可以设置细节题的正确选项。
Outside directors are supposed to serve as helpful，yet less biased，advisers on a firm’s board. Having made their wealth and their reputations