【正确答案】正确答案： Inheritance and Innovation: the Basis of Research While the ultimate goals of any academic research are the broadening of our horizons, the deepening of our understandings of the world and ourselves, and most importantly, the fulfillment of all these goals depends on innovation of ideas. Innovation means replacing the obsolete ideas with the vitally new ideas and paradigms. However, innovation does not come out of nowhere, only when we possess specific knowledge and fully realize where the problem lies can we work out a revolutionary approach to solve it. Knowledge of the future stems from knowledge of the past. In other words, inheritance gives birth to innovation. And today's innovation will be tomorrow's inheritance. That's the essence of the interdependent relationship between these two aspects. Inheritance does not mean the complete acceptance of past ideas or practice. Only the valuable and time-tested elements are worth inheriting. However, it would not be easy to draw the line between the valuable and the worthless, besides, it is even harder to determine what good stuff to inherit since the accumulative knowledge of human beings are so unimaginably enormous that it would be simply impossible to explore them all. Even so, we should not be pessimistic about that because the purposes of innovation usually illuminate our choices. In short, what we want to create determines what we should learn from the past, and in turn. Only the ideas and experience which can help us better understand and improve the present are worth inheriting.