B选项:Correct. 对于通常都有大量的商业交易的公司来说采用等级制管理结构是必要的。这个选项定位在“Increases in the volume of transactions in such firms are commonly believed to have necessitated this structural change.”作者在接下来的行文中没有反驳这句话。
screen,有“掩护,筛选”的意思
funds screen companies according to a variety of criteria,基金根据不同的标准来筛选公司
according to/in accordance with
according to,介词+名词,表“根据”,偏口语化的表达
in accordance with,介词,接名词,表“与……一致,等同于,依据”,常用于引述法律条文,如:
In accordance with Article 72 of the Act, employees of the Company have the right to form a representative body.
distant from 是以施放点为中心的一定范围内都受到污染(言下之意是光local 管是肯定不够的)——这部分黑体是作者反对的(并且还有Nevertheless表示转折)
结论:Nevertheless, regulation of pesticide use should not take place at the national level but at the local level.
第二部分黑体是对结论的解释
may in fact come to expect a price discount