单选题
下面有3篇短文，每篇短文后有5道题，每题后面有4个选项。请仔细阅读短文并根据短文回答其后面的问题。
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{{B}}Disfigurement of Businessman{{/B}}
In the relationship of education to business we observe today a fine state of paradox. On the one hand, the emphasis which most business places upon a college degree is so great that one can almost visualize the time when even the office boy will have his baccalaureate. On the other hand, we seem to preserve the belief that some deep intellectual chasm separates the businessman from other products of the university system. The notion that business people are quite the Philistines sounds absurd. For some reason, we tend to characterize vocations by stereotypes, none too flattering but nonetheless deeply imbedded in the national conscience. In the cast of characters the businessman comes on stage as a crass and uncouth person. It is not a pleasant conception and no more truthful or less unpleasant than our other stereotypes.
Business is made up of people with all kinds of backgrounds, all kinds of motivations, and all kinds of tastes, just as in any other form of human endeavour. Businessmen are not ambulatory balance sheets and profit statements, but perfectly normal human beings, subject to whatever strengths, frailties, and limitations characterize man on the earth. They are people grouped together in organizations designed to complement the weakness of one with strength of another, tempering the exuberance of the young with the caution of the more mature, the poetic soarings of one mind with the counting house realism of another. Any disfigurement which society may suffer will come from man himself, not from the particular vocation to which he devotes his time.
Any group of people necessarily represents an approach to a common denominator, and it is probably true that even individually they tend to conform somewhat to the general pattern. Many have pointed out the danger of engulfing our original thinkers in a tide of mediocrity. Conformity is not any more prevalent or any more exacting in the business field than it is in any other. It is a characteristic of all organizations of whatever nature. The fact is the large business unit provides greater opportunities for individuality and require less in the way of conformity than other institutions of comparable size—the government service, or the academic world, or certainly the military.
单选题 The paradox in the relationship of education to business is______.
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】本题所涉及的相关信息在第一段。从文中可以看到教育与商业的关系的悖论在于同时存在受过高等教育的商人和没受过什么教育的商人，所以正确答案应当为C。
单选题 According to the passage, a typical businessman is usually considered to be______.
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】根据第一段倒数第二句“In the cast of characters the businessman comes on stage as a crass and uncouth person”可以看出人们在塑造商人形象时总把他们刻画为粗俗无理的人，所以正确答案应当为C。
单选题 There isn’t a stereotyped businessman because______.
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】根据第二段第一句话，因为商人有着不同的背景、不同的动机、不同的品位，和其他普通人一样，所以商人没有固定的模式，据此可以判断正确答案为A。
单选题 According to the passage, the distortion of the image of the businessmen is the result of______.
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】从第二段最后一句“Any disfigurement which society may suffer will come from man himself, not from the particular vocation to which he devotes his time"可以看出人的偏见都是因为人自身的原因而与职业无关，由此可见只有选项D符合题意。
单选题 According to the passage, which of the following is true?______.
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】从文章最后一句“The fact is the large business unit provides greater opportunities for individuality and require less in the way of conformity than other institutions of comparable size—the government service, or the academic world, or certainly the military”可以判断只有D符合题意。