【正确答案】
B
【答案解析】[听力原文] This is the reason you are here in a university; you are here to be educated; you are here to understand thinking better and to think better yourself. It's not a chance you are going to have throughout your life time. For the next few years, you have a chance to focus on thinking. I think about some of the students who took advantage of their opportunities in a university. One of the stories I always like to tell is of a freshman seminar that I had a chance to teach at Harvard when I was president of the university. I taught a seminar on globalization and I assigned a reading that I had written about global capital flows. And, as I did each week, I asked one of the students to introduce the readings. And this young man, in October of his freshman year, said something like the following: The reading by president Sommos on the flow of capital across countries, it was kind of interesting, but the data did not come close to supporting the conclusions. And I thought to myself: what a fantastic thing this was! How could somebody who had been there for 5 weeks tell the person who had the title 'president' that he didn't really know what he was talking about? And this was a special moment. Now, I don't want to be misunderstood. I explained to my student that I actually thought that he was rather more confused than I was. And I argued back. But what was really important about that was the universities stand out as places that really are about the authority of ideas. You see it in faculty members who are pleased when their students make a discovery that undermines the cherished theory that they had put forward. I think of another student I had who came to me one morning, one evening, actually, walked into my office and said that I had written a pretty good paper, but that it had five important mistakes and that he wanted a job. You could debate whether they actually were mistakes but you couldn't debate that young man's hunger to learn; you could not debate that that young man was someone who wanted to make a difference in economics. And he is today a professor in economics. And his works are more cited as economist than any other economist in the world. What does the speaker say about university? 推理判断题。文章开头指出在大学受教育为了更好地理解思维，更好地自我思考。听音中的关键信息为“you are here to understand thinking better and to think better yourself”，由此可推断，爽学提高学生的思考能力，故选B。