The humiliation continues. At university graduation ceremonies, the ABCs proudly get their awards first; by the time they reach the Zysmans most people are literally having a ZZZ. Shortlists for job interviews, lection ballot papers, lists of conference speakers and attendees: all tend to be drawn up alphabetically, and their recipients lose interest as they plough through them.

　　47. What can we infer from the first three paragraphs?

　　[A] In both East and West, names are essential to success.

　　[B] The alphabet is to blame for the failure of Zo Zysman.

　　[C] Customers often pay a lot of attention to companies’ names.

　　[D] Some form of discrimination is too subtle to recognize.

　　[答案] D

　　[解题思路]

　　在文章的第三段中，其中第二段和第三段都分别作为例子来佐证第一段的观点。A选型的表述过于绝对，虽然第三段提高了很多西方国家领导人甚至是日本领导人，但这并不代表名字对于成功起到根本性的作用。B选项则犯了偷换概念的问题，文章所批驳的是alphebetism(字母表主义)，而不是alphabet(字母表)本身。C与原文意思相反，顾客们根本不关注公司名称，他们只纯粹按字母表的顺序找靠前的公司。D选项总结了第一段的观点，是正确答案，其中too subtle to recognize正是对第一段第二句中insidious的说明。

　　[题目译文]

　　我们从文章前三段中可以推断到什么？

　　[A] 不论在东方还是西方，名字对于成功都至关重要。

　　[B] Zo Zysman的失败原因在于字母表。

　　[C] 顾客经常十分关注公司的名字

　　[D] 一些类型的歧视很难识别出来