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I once had my Chinese MBA students brainstorming on “two-hour business plans”. I separated them into six groups and gave them an example: a restaurant chain. The more original their idea, the better, I said. Finally, five of the six groups presented plans for restaurant chains. The sixth proposed a catering(餐饮) service. Though I admitted the time limit had been difficult, I expressed my disappointment.
My students were middle managers, financial analysts and financiers from state-owned enterprises and global companies. They were not without talent or opinions, but they had been shaped by an educational system that rarely stressed or rewarded critical thinking or inventiveness. The scene I just described came in different forms during my two years’ teaching at the school. Papers were often copied from the Web and the Harvard Business Review. Case study debates were written up and just memorized. Students frequently said that copying is a superior business strategy, better than inventing and creating.
In China, every product you can imagine has been made and sold. But so few well-developed marketing and management minds have been raised that it will be a long time before most people in the world can name a Chinese brand.
With this problem in mind, partnerships with institutions like Yale and MIT have been established. And then there’s the “thousand-talent scheme”: this new government program is intended to improve technological modernization by attracting top foreign-trained scientists to the mainland with big money. But there are worries about China’s research environment. It's hardly known for producing independent thinking and openness, and even big salary offers may not be attractive enough to overcome this.
At last, for China, becoming a major world creator is not just about setting up partnerships with top Western universities. Nor is it about gathering a group of well-educated people and telling them to think creatively. It’s about establishing a rich learning environment for young minds. It’s not that simple.
【小题1】Which of the following scenes is NOT considered as lack of creation?
A.Papers were often downloaded from the Internet. |
B.Students often said that copying is a preferable business strategy. |
C.Case study debates were written up as well as recited. |
D.Students combine knowledge and critical thoughts to solve a problem. |
A.timetable | B.theme | C.project | D.policy |
A.China can make and sell any product all over the world |
B.high pay may not solve the problem of China’s research environment |
C.cooperation with institutions has been set up to make a Chinese brand |
D.the new government program are aimed at encouraging imagination |
A.Look for a New Way of Learning | B.Reward Creative Thinking |
C.How to Become a Creator | D.Establish a Technical Environment |
Donna Simpson weighs more than 600 pounds and aims to reach 1,000 pounds.The New Jersey woman is carrying a series of activities to become the world’s fattest living woman,admitting that she is as hungry for attention as she is for calorie-rich food.
Donna,who wears XXXXXXXL dresses, eats pounds of junk food and tries to move as little as possible.The 42-year-old woman is a model on a website,where admirers and the curious can pay to watch videos of her eating food or walking to the car.She appeared in TV interviews and
said she welcomed media coverage.
Simpson has submitted a claim to the Guinness World Records for the title of the world’s heaviest woman to give birth.Among the heaviest women ever recorded was one who reportedly weighed 1,800 pounds and another who reportedly weighed 1,200 pounds at the time of their
deaths.
You might expect her husband to advise her to lose weight,but it is the other way round.To achieve her goal,Donna says she will need to eat up to 12,000 calories a day,compared to 2000 calories that a normal woman needs.
When she came across the website which made very fat women widely known,she came to know there were many women faced with the same problems.And after she admitted her real size,e-mails from people poured in.They sent her gifts through the post,expressing their care
for her.Donna was not feeling sorry for her goal,though she might risk her own life in the process.However, some have a different voice in Donna’s behavior.They hold that it is more important to do something useful than to become popular.After all,there are so many children faced with the shortage of food throughout the world.
【小题1】. . One reason why Donna Simpson wants to be the heaviest woman is that .
A.she is fond of challenging herself |
B.she wants to advertise for food |
C.she is crazy about public attention |
D.she hopes to make fat women confident |
A.Simpson is much fatter than any other woman |
B.Simpson’s videos can be watched on the Internet |
C.Simpson has broken the Guinness World Record |
D.Simpson’s husband is strongly against her plan |
A.Simpson will go on a diet to keep fit |
B.There’s no way for one to reach 1000 pounds |
C.Most people take pity on Simpson |
D.Simpson will take measures to achieve her goal |
A.negative | B.uncertain | C.encouraging | D.annoying |
A.Meet with the fattest person in the world |
B.What’s the matter with Donna Simpson? |
C.A US woman decided to be the world’s heaviest |
D.The super-sized model planned to lose weight |