In December 2013, Mary T. Barra, 51, completed a remarkable personal journey when
she was named as the next chief executive of General Motors (G.M.). G.M.’s board chose her
from a handful of internal 36 . Ms. Barra was picked for her talent, not her gender. 37 excellent management and product skills, she also had interpersonal skills that are
critical to G.M.’s team-first approach.
Her father was a die maker for 39 years, 38 of the employees who performed the
tough tasks that made General Motors the largest auto company in the United States. When she
was a child, Ms. Barra 39 to join the family business and make her mark in the
automobile industry. At 18, she entered a G.M. technical school to become an engineer.
While she is an extremely-skilled insider who has spent 33 years with G.M., Ms. Barra now 40 with driving change at the automaker, which, just four years ago, went bankrupt
and needed a $49.5 billion government bailout to survive.
【題組】36.
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(B) candidates
(C) runners
(D) advocates
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