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It goes against everybody’s inner cynic to read a sentence like the following: We are on the verge of the greatest age of creati

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问题     It goes against everybody’s inner cynic to read a sentence like the following: We are on the verge of the greatest age of creativity and innovation the world has ever known. Consider the following idea. Things, broadly speaking, used to be invented by small, shadowy elite. This mysterious group might be called "The People Who Happened to Be in the Room at the Time". These people might have been engineers, or sitcom writers, or chefs. They were probably very nice and might have even been very, very smart. But however smart they were, they’re almost certainly no match for a less elite but much, much larger group: All the People Outside the Room.
    Historically, that latter group hasn’t had much to do with innovation. These people buy and consume whatever gets invented inside the room, but that’s it. Until now it’s been kind of awkward getting them involved in the innovation process at all, because they’re not getting paid; plus it’s a pain to set up the conference call.
    But that’s changing. The authorship of innovation is shifting from the Few to the Many. The idea that lots of people, potentially everybody, can be involved in the process of innovation is both obvious and utterly transformative, and once you look for examples you start seeing them everywhere. Two things make this kind of innovation possible, one obvious and one not. The obvious one is the Internet. The other one, the surprising one, is a curious phenomenon you could call intellectual altruism. It turns out that given the opportunity, people will donate their time and brainpower to make the world better.
    You would think corporations would be falling all over themselves to make money off this new resource: a cheap R&D lab the approximate size of the earth’s online population. In fact, they have been slow to embrace it. Admittedly, it’s counterintuitive: until now the value of a piece of intellectual property has been defined by how few people possess it. In the future the value will be defined by how many people possess it. You could even imagine a future in which companies scrapped their R&D departments entirely and simply proposed questions for the global collective intelligence to mull. All that creative types like myself would have to do is sit back and harvest free, brilliant ideas from the brains of billions. Now that’s an idea my inner cynic can get behind.
Which of the following can be inferred from Paragraph 4?
选项 A、Companies are not actively making efforts to make use of the cheap resources of netizens.
B、In the future most of the inventions may come from elites instead of the common people.
C、Companies may not rely on common people’s ideas to solve a technical problem.
D、Companies cannot afford to get rid of their R&D departments.
答案A
解析 下列哪一项可以从第四段中推断出来?[A]公司并没有积极、努力地运用网民这一廉价资源。[B]未来大多数发明创造可能来自于精英而不是普通大众。[C]公司可能不会依赖于普通大众的想法来解决技术问题。[D]取消研发部门对公司来讲是无法承受的。根据第四段的前两句可知，许多公司对这种廉价新资源的利用并不太多，故[A]正确。[B]与第四句的内容正好相反．[C]明显与本段的内容不符；[D]与第五句的内容意思相反。
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