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(餐饮) 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

【小题1】D

【小题2】C

【小题3】C

【小题4】B

【小题5】A

解析:

是一篇教育类夹叙夹议文章， 讲述了作者通过教学发现教育存在的问题。

【小题1】 考查推理判断能力。根据第一段整体的信息作出判断和推理。

【小题2】考查判断推理能力。第二段整体判断，特别是最后一句。

【小题3】 考查猜词能力。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为同义词，C中project 为program同

义词。

【小题4】 考查推理判断能力。文中没有直接表达出来，根据最后一句得出，“even big salary

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

environment存在的问题即problem, 也是指It’s hardly known for producing independent

thinking and openness这个问题。

【小题5】考查主旨判断题。从整体和最后一段判断，整篇文章是讲关于教育出现的问题—

有了丰富的学习环境，及新的学习方法，才能有创造性的研究氛围。