Question

I once had my Chinese MBA students brainstorming on “two-hour business plans”. I separated them into six groups and gave them an example: a restaurant chain. The more original their idea, the better, I said. Finally, five of the six groups presented plans for restaurant chains. The sixth proposed a catering(餐飲) service. Though I admitted the time limit had been difficult, I expressed my disappointment.

My students were middle managers, financial analysts and financiers from state-owned enterprises and global companies. They were not without talent or opinions, but they had been shaped by an educational system that rarely stressed or rewarded critical thinking or inventiveness. The scene I just described came in different forms during my two years’ teaching at the school. Papers were often copied from the Web and the Harvard Business Review. Case study debates were written up and just memorized. Students frequently said that copying is a superior business strategy, better than inventing and creating.

In China, every product you can imagine has been made and sold. But so few well-developed marketing and management minds have been raised that it will be a long time before most people in the world can name a Chinese brand.

With this problem in mind, partnerships with institutions like Yale and MIT have been established. And then there’s the “thousand-talent scheme”: this new government program is intended to improve technological modernization by attracting top foreign-trained scientists to the mainland with big money. But there are worries about China’s research environment. It's hardly known for producing independent thinking and openness, and even big salary offers may not be attractive enough to overcome this.

At last, for China, becoming a major world creator is not just about setting up partnerships with top Western universities. Nor is it about gathering a group of well-educated people and telling them to think creatively. It’s about establishing a rich learning environment for young minds. It’s not that simple.

Why does the author feel disappointed at his students?

A．Because there is one group presenting a catering service.

B．Because the six groups made projects for restaurant chains.

C．Because all the students copied a case for the difficult topic.

D．Because the students’ ideas were lacking in creativeness.

Which of the following scenes is NOT considered as lack of creation?

A．Papers were often downloaded from the Internet.

B．Students often said that copying is a preferable business strategy.

C．Students combine knowledge and critical thoughts to solve a problem.

D．Case study debates were written up as well as recited.

The underlined word “scheme” in the forth paragraph means__________.

A．timetable                B．theme                     C．project                    D．policy

We can infer from the passage that ___________.

A．China can make and sell any product all over the world

B．high pay may not solve the problem of China’s research environment

C．cooperation with institutions has been set up to make a Chinese brand

D．the new government program are aimed at encouraging imagination

Which is the best title of the passage?

A．Look for a New Way of Learning                 B．Reward Creative Thinking

C．How to Become a Creator                            D．Establish a technical Environment

Answer 1

【小題1】D

【小題2】C

【小題3】C

【小題4】B

【小題5】A

解析:

是一篇教育類夾敘夾議文章， 講述了作者通過教學發現教育存在的問題。

【小題1】 考查推理判斷能力。根據第一段整體的信息作出判斷和推理。

【小題2】考查判斷推理能力。第二段整體判斷，特別是最后一句。

【小題3】 考查猜詞能力。第五段的第2句“this new government program”中this 指代前面

的“thousand-talent scheme”，而scheme和 program為同義詞，C中project 為program同

義詞。

【小題4】 考查推理判斷能力。文中沒有直接表達出來，根據最后一句得出，“even big salary

offers may not be attractive enough to overcome this.”中this 指的是China’s learning

environment存在的問題即problem, 也是指It’s hardly known for producing independent

thinking and openness這個問題。

【小題5】考查主旨判斷題。從整體和最后一段判斷，整篇文章是講關于教育出現的問題—

有了豐富的學習環境，及新的學習方法，才能有創造性的研究氛圍。