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Discoveries in science and technology are thought by "untaught minds" to come in blinding flashes or as the result of dramatic a

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问题     Discoveries in science and technology are thought by "untaught minds" to come in blinding flashes or as the result of dramatic accidents. Sir Alexander Fleming did not, as legend would have it, look at the mold on a piece of cheese and get the idea for penicillin there and then. He experimented with antibacterial substances for nine years before he made his discovery. Inventions and innovations almost always come out of laborious trial and error. Innovation is like soccer; even the best players miss the goal and have their shots blocked much more frequently than they score.
    The point is that the players who score most are the ones who take the most shots at the goal—and so it goes with innovation in any field of activity. The prime difference between innovators and others is one of approach. Everybody gets ideas, but innovators work consciously on theirs and they follow them through until they prove practicable or otherwise. What ordinary people see as fanciful abstractions; professional innovators see as solid possibilities.
    "Creative thinking may mean simply the realization mat there’s no particular virtue in doing things the way they have always been done," wrote Rudolph Flesch, a language authority. This accounts for our reaction to seemingly simple innovations like plastic garbage bags and suitcases on wheels that make life more convenient: "How come nobody thought of that before?"
    The creative approach begins with the proposition that nothing is as it appears. Innovators will not accept that there is only one way to do anything. Faced with getting from A to B, the average person will automatically set out on the best-known and apparently simplest route. The innovator will search for alternate courses, which may prove easier in the long run and are bound to be more interesting and challenging even if they lead to dead ends.
    Highly creative individuals really do march to a different drummer.
The phrase "untaught mind"(Line 1, Para.l)is closest in meaning to______.
选项 A、those people who receive less education
B、young people
C、lazy people
D、football players
答案A
解析 语义题。原文第一段，科学技术发明会被无知的人认为是头脑中的灵光一现或碰巧得来的。taught是teach的过去分词，untaught mind便指没有接受教育的头脑。原文中便指无知的，较少接受教育的人。选项D为干扰项，虽在第一段尾句出现，但只是作为例子来解释努力的重要性。
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