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The universities have trained the intellectual pioneers of our civilization — the priests, the lawyers, the statesmen, the doctors, the men of science, and the men of letters. The conduct of business now requires intellectual imagination of the same type as that which in former times has mainly passed into those other occupations.
There is one great difficulty which hinders all the higher types of human effort. In modern times, this difficulty has even increased in its possibilities for evil. In any large organization the younger men, who are novices, must be set to jobs which consist in carrying out fixed duties in obedience to orders. No president of a large corporation meets his youngest employee at his office door with the offer of the most responsible job which the work of that corporation includes. The young men are set to work at a fixed routine, and only occasionally even see the president as he passes in and out of the building. Such work is a great discipline. It imparts knowledge, and it produces reliability of character; also it is the only work for which the young men, in that novice stage, are fit, and it is the work for which they are hired. There can be no criticism of the custom, but there may be an unfortunate effect: prolonged routine work dulls the imagination.
The way in which a university should function in the preparation for an intellectual career, is by promoting the imaginative consideration of the various general principles underlying that career. Its students thus pass into their period of technical apprenticeship with their imaginations already practiced in connecting details with general principles.
Thus the proper function of a university is the imaginative acquisition of knowledge. Apart from this importance of the imagination, there is no reason why businessmen, and other professional men, should not pick up their facts bit by bit as they want them for particular occasions. A university is imaginative or it is nothing — at least nothing useful.

单选题 What is a basic requirement for work in all professions according to the passage?

单选题 Which of the following serves best as the title of the passage?

【正确答案】 B

【答案解析】主旨题。文章首先提出如今任何工作都需要有知识性的想像力的观点，然后指出现代社会对年轻人就业的一些传统规定限制了这种想像力的发展和发挥，最后指出针对这一问题，大学在培养学生过程中的正确作用。因此，文章的重点落在大学培养年轻人的作用上，最合适的标题应选[B]。其余三项都只是文中的部分内容或者词句。

单选题 In modern times the period of technical apprenticeship______.

【正确答案】 A

【答案解析】分析推理题。文章第二段首先指出阻碍人们做出更大努力的一个难题，然后以现代社会对于年轻人就业时有漫长的“学徒期”这一现象进行了说明和分析，最后得出结论：prolonged routine work dulls the imagination。因此作者认为学徒期对于年轻人的想像力是有不良作用的，选[A]。