单选题 In the relationship of education to business we observe today a fine state of paradox. On the one hand, the emphasis which most business places upon a college degree is so great that one can almost visualize the time when even the office boy will have his baccalaureate. On the other hand, we seem to preserve the belief that some deep intellectual chasm separates the businessman from other products of the university system. The notion that business people are quite the Philistines sounds absurd. For some reason, we tend to characterize vocations by stereotypes, none too flattering but nonetheless deeply imbedded in the national conscience. In the cast of characters the businessman comes on stage as an ill-mannered and simple minded person. It is not a pleasant conception and no more truthful or less unpleasant than our other stereotypes.
Business is made up of people with all kinds of backgrounds, all kinds of motivations, and all kinds of tastes, just as in any other form of human endeavor. Businessmen are not mobile balance sheets and profit statements, but perfectly normal human beings, subject to whatever strengths, frailties, and limitations that characterize man on the earth. They are people grouped together in organizations designed to complement the weakness of one with strength of another, tempering the exuberance of the young with the caution of the more mature, the poetic soarings of one mind with the counting house realism of another. Any disfigurement which society may suffer will come from man himself, not from the particular vocation to which he devotes his time.
Any group of people necessarily represents an approach to a common one, and it is probably true that even individually they tend to conform somewhat to the general pattern. Many have pointed out the danger of engulfing our original thinkers in a tide of mediocrity. Conformity is not any more prevalent or any more exacting in the business field than it is in any other. It is a characteristic of all organizations of whatever nature. The fact is the large business unit provides greater opportunities for individuality and requires less in the way of conformity than other institutions of comparable size—the government, or the academic world, or certainly the military.

单选题 The paradox in the relationship of education to business is that ______.
A. businessmen are both unmindful of history and sophisticated in it
B. businessmen show both contempt and respect for noble activities
C. there are both highly intellectual and uneducated businessmen
D. there are both noticeable similarities and differences between businessmen and intellectuals

单选题 The word "Philistines" (Line 5, Para. 1) most probably means ______.
A. intellectuals B. those who are sophisticated
C. those who are ungraceful D. those who are uneducated

单选题 There isn't a stereotyped businessman because ______.
A. businessmen represent a cross section of society
B. businessmen are not ordinary people
C. businessmen are people with strong personality
D. there is considerable mobility in the vocation

单选题 According to the text, the distortion of the image of the businessmen is the result of ______.
A. prevalent egoism among businessmen B. sheer misunderstanding from others
C. racial discrimination D. the fierce social competition

单选题 According to the last paragraph, which of the following is true?
A. People in all vocations are unwilling to conform to a general pattern.
B. Conformity is a special characteristic of business.
C. Businessmen are all original thinkers.
D. Businessmen are provided with greater opportunities than people in other professions.