单选题 Rarely has there been as neat a fit between a book’s subject and its author’s biography as in "Bound Together: How Traders, Preachers, Adventurers, and Warriors Shaped Globalization" by Nayan Chanda. It's easy to see why the subject fascinates Chanda; he's a self-proclaimed Francophile(崇拜法国的人) of South Asian origin, who studied French in Calcutta, then took courses on China in Paris, ran a magazine in Hong Kong and ended up launching an online journal devoted to globalization at a venerable Ivy League institution. And in this engaging analysis, he answers such intriguing questions as" How did the coffee bean, first grown only in Ethiopia, end up in our coffee cups after a journey through Java and Colombia?"
In examining these specific questions -- and larger ones about how the world is interconnected m Chanda does not emphasize his own experiences. But when appropriate, he effectively uses small, personal details to cut very big social, economic, cultural and sometimes biological processes down to size. He shows how close scrutiny of the iPod he gave his son as a birthday present can reveal much about the multinational origins of such objects. It was officially touted as" designed" by an American company and "assembled in China"; he found that it actually contained component parts and software with ties to India, Japan, South Korea and Scotland. And he marvels at the speed with which it traveled from Shanghai to New haven via Alaska and Indiana, as well as at his ability to track its progress thanks to bar codes.
The debate over globalization has grown so polarized that many readers are probably itching to know whether Chanda belongs in the" pro" or" anti" camp. One theme of "Bound Together" is that thinking in these terms doesn't make sense. Those who gather at what are somewhat misleadingly called" anti- globalization" rallies, after all, don't oppose all the ways the world is shrinking. And their campaigns make use of many technologies (notably the Internet) that are crucial to 21st-century-style globalization.
Indeed, Chanda's stand on the subject might be called that of a cautiously optimistic fatalist. He asserts that the only reasonable response to globalization is twofold: accept that the world is not going to stop shrinking and figure out ways to maximize the positive and minimize the negative effects. He acknowledges the downsides of globalization (social inequities, the spread of new diseases and so on), yet argues that in many ways being "bound together" ever more tightly can ultimately be a good thing, benefiting more and more individuals and groups.
This is a book filled with fascinating information. Even readers who disagree with his claims will come away with a host of new facts to draw upon. They will also learn a lot about the history and deployment of the term globalization, to which Chanda devotes an excellent chapter. In addition, many will never look at an iPod in quite the same way again.

单选题 According to the first paragraph, Nayan Chanda ______.
[A] was born in India.
[B] has worked in America.
[C] has worked in France.
[D] has studied in China.

单选题 By the close scrutiny of the coffee bean and the iPod, Chanda wants to tell us ______.
[A] how traders, preachers, adventurers, and warriors shaped globalization.
[B] how globalization has grown so quickly and widely around the world.
[C] how the world is interconnected by examining these specific questions.
[D] how small details reflect the big social, economic, cultural globalization.

单选题 In the author's opinion, those who oppose globalization are ______.
[A] against all the ways and means related to it.
[B] not accepting the reality of a shrinking world.
[C] misunderstood for the name of their camp.
[D] against the technologies typical of globalization.

单选题 To which of the following statement would Chanda most likely agree?
[A] Our world is not going to stop becoming smaller and smaller.
[B] People should take the effects of globalization as granted.
[C] It will be beneficial for all to get connected as closely as ever.
[D] Groups rather than individuals will profit a lot from globalization.

单选题 We can learn from the last paragraph that ______.
[A] the book will exert some influence in changing people's opinions.
[B] the readers will stop reading the book when they find so many new facts.
[C] the history and usage of the term globalization covers several chapters.
[D] readers with different opinions will end up agreeing with the author.