Lateral thinking(迂回思维), first described by Edward de Bone in 1967, is just a few years older than Edward' s son. You might imagine that Caspar was raised to be an adventurous thinker, but the de Bone was so famous, Caspar's parents worried that any time he would say something bright at school, his teachers might snap, "Where do you get that idea from?" "We had to be careful and not overdo it," Edward admits. Now Caspar is at Oxford—which once looked unlikely because he is also slightly dyslexic(诵读困难). In fact, when he was applying to Oxford, none of his school teachers thought he had a chance. "So then we did several thinking sessions," his father says, "using my techniques and, when he went up for the exam, he did extremely well. " Soon after, Edward de Bone decided to write his latest book, Teach Your Child How to Think, in which he transforms the thinking skills he developed for brainstorming businessmen into informal exercises for parents and children to share. Thinking is traditionally regarded as something executed in a logical sequence, and everybody knows that children aren't very logical. So isn't it an uphill battle, trying to teach them to think? "You know," Edward de Bone says, "if you examine people's thinking, it is quite unusual to find faults of logic. But the faults of perception are huge! Often we think ineffectively because we take too limited a view. " Teach Your Child How to Think offers lessons in perception improvement, of clearly seeing the implications of something you are saying and of exploring the alternatives.
单选题
It can be inferred from Paragraph 2 that Edward______.
【正确答案】
D
【答案解析】解析：文章第二段讲到“…in which he transforms the thinking skills he developed for brainstorming businessmen into informal exercises for parents and children to share．”可见著书前爱德华曾经教商人如何去思考。所以D项正确。A、B、C项表达的内容与原文意思不符，在第二段中只是说将思维技巧转化成家长和孩子共同参与的非正规训练，但并没有提到培养逻辑性；爱德华描述迂回思维要比他的儿子出生早；而他的儿子患有轻微的诵读困难症时爱德华用他的迂回思维法训练他的儿子，但并不是因为这件事激励他研究迂回思维。所以本题的正确答案为D。
单选题
According to Paragraph 3, which of the following statements expresses Edward de Bone's view?
【正确答案】
C
【答案解析】解析：在文章的第三段中讲到“Often we think ineffectively because we take too limited a view．”可见，爱德华认为我们的思维之所以经常没有效果，是因为我们的视野太狭窄，C项正确。文中讲到，人人都知道孩子不太可能有逻辑头脑，所以说A项是众所周知的内容，并不是爱德华的观点，因此A项不对。同样，根据第二段中讲述的内容，试图教孩子去思考是一场艰难的战斗是传统观念，不是爱德华的观点，所以B项也不对。D项也是传统观念。所以本题的正确答案为C。
单选题
Lateral thinking refers to the following EXCEPT______.