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Their ideas are quite ________ to our way of thinking, but I can't persuade him.
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Do you wake up every day feeling too tired, or even upset? If so, then a new alarm clock could be just for you.
The clock, called SteepSmart, measures your sleep cycle, and waits ____(36) you to be in your lightest phase of sleep ____(37) rousing you.Its makers say that should ______(38) you wake up feeling refreshed every morning.As you sleep you pass____(39) a sequence of sleep states---light sleep, deep sleep and REM(rapid eye movement) sleep---that ____(40) approximately every 90 minutes.The point in that cycle at which you wake can ____(41) how you feel later, and may ____(42) have a greater impact than how much or little you have slept.Being roused during a light phase ____(43) you are more likely to wake up energetic.
SleepSmart ____(44) the distinct pattern of brain waves _____(45) during each phase of sleep, via a headband equipped _____(46) electrodes and a microprocessor.This measures the electrical activity of the wearer’s brain, in much the ____(47) way as some machines used for medical and research ____(48), and communicates wirelessly with a clock unit near the bed.You ____(49) the clock with the latest time at _____(50) you want to be wakened, and it _____(51) duly wakes you during the last light sleep phase before that.
The _____(52) was invented by a group of students at Brown University in Rhode Island ____(53) a friend complained of waking up tired and performing poorly on a test.“_____(54) sleep-deprived people ourselves, we started thinking of _____(55) to do about it.” Says Eric Shashoua, a recent college graduate and now chief executive officer of Axon Sleep Research Laboratories, a company created by students to develop their idea.
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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 suggested a catering 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 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 better business strategy(策略), better than inventing and creating.
In China, every product you can imagine has been made and sold. But there are so few well developed marketing and management minds that it will be a long time before most people in the world can name a Chinese brand.
With this problem in mind, co-operation with institutions like Yale and MIT have been started . And then there’s the “thousand talent program”: this new government program is intended to improve technological modernization(现代化). It can attract top foreign trained scientists to the mainland with big money. But there are worries about China’s research environment.
At last, for China, becoming a major world creator is not just about co-operation with top Western universities. Nor is it about gathering a group of well-educated people and telling them to think creatively. It’s about offering a rich learning environment for young minds. It’s not that simple.
1.Why does the author feel disappointed at his students?
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A.Because there is one group presenting a catering service. |
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B.Because the six groups made projects for restaurant chains. |
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C.Because all the students copied a case for the difficult topic. |
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D.Because the students’ ideas were lacking in creativeness. |
2. We can infer from the passage that ________.
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A.China can make and sell any product all over the world |
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B.high pay may not solve the problem of China’s research environment |
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C.cooperation with institutions has been set up to make a Chinese brand |
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D.the new government program are aimed at encouraging imagination |
3.Which is the best title of the passage?
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A.Look for a New Way of Learning. |
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B.Reward Creative Thinking. |
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C.How to Become a Creator. |
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D.Establish a technical Environment. |