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 a 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 endeavour. Businessmen are not mobile balance sheets and profit statements, but perfectly normal human beings, subject to whatever strengths, frailties, and limitations 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
【正确答案】
C
【答案解析】[设题点] 对比处 [解析] 事实细节题。选项[C]“既有知识分子又有未受过教育的人”。文章第一段第二句on the one hand...与第三句on the other hand...，“一方面办公室的勤杂工都将需要学士学位；另一方面，一些深奥的知识鸿沟将商人和大学体制的其他产物区分开来”正好说明了这一点，所以答案是[C]。[A]和[B]两项内容与原文内容无关；第一段第四句：“商人都很俗，这种观念听起来实在荒谬”，说明作者反对“知识分子与商人之间存在很大的差别”的观点，所以[D]是错误的。
单选题
The word "Philistines" (Line 5, Para. 1) most probably means
【正确答案】
D
【答案解析】[设题点] 举例处 [解析] 语义理解题。根据题干信息将答案定位在第一段第四句The notion that business people are quite the Philistines sounds absurd。要理解Philistines的意思，就要从上下文中寻找对这句话的解释。第一段倒数第二句举了商人在舞台上的形象为例，在舞台上出现的商人的形象总是ill-mannered and simple-minded person(不懂礼貌且头脑简单的人)。所给的四个选项中，首先排除[A]intellectuals“知识分子”，这与原文意思相反。[B]“复杂的人”也不是作者所表达的意思。而[C]ungraceful“不懂礼貌的，下流的”只对应了i1l-man-nered，所以不全面。[D]uneducated“无教养的”则同时包含了“不懂礼貌”和“头脑简单”双重意思。所以，本题答案为[D]。
单选题
There isn’t a stereotyped businessman because
【正确答案】
A
【答案解析】[设题点] 段首句 [解析] 事实细节题。文章第二段第一句Business is made up of people with all kinds of backgrounds…“商人和从事其他工作的人一样，有各种各样的背景…”正好与[A]相吻合，即“他们是社会的各个阶层人员的交汇”。[B]“他们不是普通人”，很明显与第二段第二句话相悖；[C]“他们是很有个性的人”，文中没有提及；而[D]“这一行业有很强的流动性”，文章第一段已经很详细地阐述过，不能再用老眼光来看商人了，是因为商人们自己的变化，与这一行业的流动性强弱并没有关系。
单选题
According to the text, the distortion of the image of the businessmen is the result of