【正确答案】 B

【答案解析】[听力原文] If you were to visit education, as an alien, and say 'What's it for, public education?' I think you'd have to conclude—if you look at the output, who really succeeds by this, who does everything that they should, who are the winners—I think you'd have to conclude the whole purpose of public education throughout the world is to produce university professors. Isn't it? They're the people who come out the top. And I used to be one, so there. And I like university professors, but you know, we shouldn't hold them up as the high-water mark of all human achievement. They're just a form of life, another form of life. But they're rather curious, and I say this out of affection for them. There's something curious about professors in my experience—not all of them, but typically—they live in their heads. They live up there, and slightly to one side. They're bodiless, you know, in a kind of literal way. They look upon their body as a form of transport for their heads, don't they? It's a way of getting their head to meetings. Now our education system is predicated on the idea of academic ability. And there's a reason. The whole system was invented—around the world, there were no public systems of education, really, before the 19th century. They all came into being to meet the needs of industrialism. So the hierarchy is rooted on two ideas. Number one, that the most useful subjects for work are at the top. So you were probably steered away from things at school when you were a kid, things you liked, on the grounds that you would never get a job doing that. Is that right? Don't do music, you're not going to be a musician; don't do art, you won't be an artist. Kind advice—now, profoundly mistaken. The whole world is engulfed in a revolution. And the second is academic ability, which has really come to dominate our view of intelligence, because the universities designed the system in their image. What will an alien think of the whole purpose of public education? ①从选项看，此题可能跟教育或者培训有关。②演讲者提到如果你看看公共教育，你得出的结论会是：全世界公共教育的目的是培养出大学教授。故B正确。 A“培养创新人才”，录音没有谈到创新人才的培养，也未提及创新对教育的作用，故排除。录音提到，大学的产生是为了满足工业化的需求，但没说其目的是培养工业领导人，故排除C。演讲者说工业化最有用的学科排在最前面，他举出一些关于建议的例子，比如“不要学艺术，你不是要成为艺术家”，可知艺术不受重视，更不是目的，故D错误。

【正确答案】 D

【答案解析】[听力原文] What is the emphasis of education system according to the speaker? 演讲者提到现在我们的教育体制建立在学术能力的概念上，学术能力正是教育体制所强调的，故D正确。 全面发展、创新能力及基本的社交技能这三个方面固然重要，但根据演讲者的表述，它们并非现在教育体制注重的点，故A、B、和C均错误。

【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】[听力原文] What does the speaker think of studying the most useful subjects? ①从选项看，此题可能跟对某种观点的评判有关。②演讲者提到为了满足工业化的需要，人们强调对工作最有用的科目的重要性，学生往往受此引导放弃自己真正喜欢却可能找不到工作的科目，而选择对将来工作有益的科目。演讲者认为这种看似好的建议现在看来是极端错误的。故C正确。 演讲者认为学生得学习最有用的科目这种建议现在看来是极端错误的，是不正常的，故A“在21世纪是十分正常的”和B“永远正确的”，均错误。演讲者提到让学生选择对工作有益的科目的建议是在19世纪为了满足工业化的需要而产生，在当时是很流行的，故D“在19世纪是十分荒谬的”错误。