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Could you reproduce Silicon Valley elsewhere, or is there something unique about it? It wouldn’t be surprising if it were ha

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问题     Could you reproduce Silicon Valley elsewhere, or is there something unique about it?
    It wouldn’t be surprising if it were hard to reproduce in other countries, because you couldn’t reproduce it in most of the US either. What does it take to make a Silicon Valley?
    It’s the right people. If you could get the right ten thousand people to move from Silicon Valley to Buffalo, Buffalo would become Silicon Valley.
    You only need two kinds of people to create a technology hub(中心): rich people and nerds(痴迷科研的人).
    Observation bears this out. Within the US, towns have become startup hubs if and only if they have both rich people and nerds. Few startups happen in Miami, for example, because although it’s full of rich people, it has few nerds. It’s not the kind of place nerds like.
    Whereas Pittsburgh has the opposite problem: plenty of nerds, but no rich people. The top US Computer Science departments are said to be MIT, Stanford, Berkeley, and Carnegie-Mellon. MIT yielded Route 128. Stanford and Berkeley yielded Silicon Valley. But what did Carnegie-Mellon yield in Pittsburgh? And what happened in Ithaca, home of Cornell University, which is also high on the list?
    I grew up in Pittsburgh and went to college at Cornell, so I can answer for both. The weather is terrible, particularly in winter, and there’s no interesting old city to make up for it, as there is in Boston. Rich people don’t want to live in Pittsburgh or Ithaca. So while there’re plenty of hackers(电脑迷)who could start startups, there’s no one to invest in them.
    Do you really need the rich people? Wouldn’t it work to have the government invest in the nerds?
    No, it would not. Startup investors are a distinct type of rich people. They tend to have a lot of experience themselves in the technology business. This helps them pick the right startups, and means they can supply advice and connections as well as money. And the fact that they have a personal stake in the outcome makes them really pay attention.
What does the author say about startup investors?
选项 A、They are especially wise in making investments.
B、They have good connections in the government.
C、They can do more than providing money.
D、They are rich enough to invest in nerds.
答案C
解析 推理判断题。第八段第四句表明，创业园区的投资者是一群截然不同的有钱人。接着指出，他们自己往往有很多技术商业领域的经验。这一点能够帮助他们选择正确的创业公司，同时也意味着他们提供金钱的同时也能够提供建议和人际关系。选项C)“他们除了提供金钱外，还能做更多的事情”和原文意思一致，故为答案。
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