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四、閱讀測驗【請在下列各題中選出最適當的答案】Elizabeth Holmes began to rise to national fame in 2013 when she claimed that her medical-testing startupTheranos Inc. had developed a groundbreaking technology. Its machines could run thousands of medical tests using asingle drop of blood quickly and cheaply. On that promise, Holmes raised money from investors and won hercompany agreements with national pharmacy chains. High-profile board members joined as well.Behind the scenes, things were very different. While Holmes told her company’s engineers to modify standardblood-testing machines to run Theranos’s tests, she hid the fact by conducting demonstrations using Theranos’smachines. She also led pharmacy chain executives on lab tours without revealing that the company was usingthird-party technology.After a series of investigations, securities regulators called her a fraud and forced her to give up the company shebuilt. The lawsuit and settlement announced by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) detailed howHolmes and her chief deputy lied for years about their technology, snookered the media, and used the publicity to getinvestors to hand more than $700 million to keep the closely held company afloat.The media used to regard Holmes as the female Steve Jobs. She studied chemical engineering at StanfordUniversity but dropped out to start a consumer healthcare technology company. Holmes’s preferred daily uniform of ablack turtleneck is generally assumed to be an imitation of her role model Steve Jobs. Not so long ago, Holmes wasnamed one of TIME’s Most Influential People in the World in 2015. Yet in 2016, Fortune called Holmes one of the“World’s Most Disappointing Leaders.”“The Theranos story is an important lesson for Silicon Valley,” said Jina Choi, director of the SEC’s SanFrancisco Regional Office. “Innovators who seek to revolutionize and disrupt an industry must tell investors the truthabout what their technology can do today, not just what they hope it might do someday.”
46. What is this passage mainly about?
(A) The investigation process of a security scandal.
(B) An entrepreneur and the rise and fall of her startup.
(C) How media and publicity boosted a promising business.
(D)Behind-the-scene stories of the pharmaceutical industry.

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答案：B
難度：非常簡單1
統計：A(0),B(1),C(0),D(0),E(0)

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