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In today’s world, racial, ethnic, and national categories no longer impose fixed barriers or unbending traditions. This is not t

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问题     In today’s world, racial, ethnic, and national categories no longer impose fixed barriers or unbending traditions. This is not to say that these categories have disappeared. Rather, they are mixing and interacting in new ways. The hybrid nature of today’s society is a valuable resource that companies and businesses should tap into in their quest to innovate.
    The ability to apply knowledge to new situations is the most valued currency in today’s economy. More than ever, creativity rewards those who exercise it, so curiosity about the source of creativity has never been higher. How creativity comes about is a riddle, but a few things seem clear. Highly creative people don’t necessarily excel in raw brainpower. They are misfits on some level. They tend to question accepted views and to consider contradictory ones.
    The implications are plain to see: Divergent thinking is an essential ingredient of creativity. Diverse groups produce diverse thinking. Therefore, diversity promotes creativity. This logic applies to corporations, research teams, think tanks, and other groups of creators. Those who rely on a team of diverse people are more likely to innovate than those who rely on platoons of similar people.
    To be sure, hybridity poses risks. A hybrid person may lose himself in a jumble of affiliations. A hybrid nation may botch the process of reinvention. Still, the price of such errors seems lower than the cost of circling the ethnic wagons and either shutting out people who are different or forcing them to become "one of us. " Never before have so many people married across racial and ethnic lines. Never before have so many people left their homelands for work or pleasure. Never before have so many people touched or tasted the clothes, foods, musical styles, and ideas of cultures not available to them in their youth. These people are not becoming phantoms or dilettantes. Rather, they are part of an outpouring of human creativity that is being driven by racial mixing.
    "You cannot spill a drop of American blood," Herman Melville wrote in 1849, "without spilling the blood of the whole world. " More than ever, Melville’s declaration applies not only to America, but to all nations.
According to Paragraph 2, highly creative people________.
选项 A、are more intelligent than others
B、tend to have critical minds
C、know how to fit into the society
D、usually have higher education background
答案B
解析 本题是细节题。根据题干关键词Paragraph 2和highly creative people定位至第二段第四至六句。其中第六句提到，They tend to question accepted views and to consider contradictory ones(他们倾向于对大家都接受的见解提出质疑，并思考有争议的意见)，可知，他们常常具有批判性思维，故答案选B，属于同义替换。A项与第二段第四句Highly creative people don’t necessarily excel in raw brainpower(具有高度创造性的人的先天智力不一定出类拔萃)的说法不符，属于正反混淆，故排除；C项与第二段第五句They are misfits on some level(在某种程度上他们还与周围的环境格格不人)的说法不符，属于正反混淆，故排除，D项在文中并未提及，故排除。
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