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Most human beings actually decide before they think. When any human being—executive, specialized expert, or person in the street
Most human beings actually decide before they think. When any human being—executive, specialized expert, or person in the street
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2011-02-12
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问题
Most human beings actually decide before they think. When any human being—executive, specialized expert, or person in the street—encounters a complex issue and forms an opinion, often within a matter of seconds, how thoroughly has he or she explored the implications of the various courses of action? Answer: not very thoroughly. Very few people, no matter how intelligent or experienced, can take inventory of the many branching possibilities, possible outcomes, side effects, and undesired consequences of a policy or a course of action in a matter of seconds. Yet, those who pride themselves on being decisive often try to do just that. And once their brains lock onto an opinion, most of their thinking thereafter consists of finding support for it.
A very serious side effect of argumentative decision making can be a lack of support for the chosen course of action on the part of the "losing" faction. When one faction wins the meeting and the others see themselves as losing, the battle often doesn’t end when the meeting ends. Anger, resentment, and jealousy may lead them to sabotage the decision later, or to reopen the debate at later meetings.
There is a better way. As philosopher Aldous Huxley said, "It isn’t who is right, but what is right, that counts."
The structured-inquiry method offers a better alternative to argumentative decision making by debate. With the help of the Internet and wireless computer technology, the gap between experts and executives is now being dramatically closed. By actually putting the brakes on the thinking process, slowing it down, and organizing the flow of logic, it’s possible to create a level of clarity that sheer argumentation can never march.
The structured-inquiry process introduces a level of conceptual clarity by organizing the contributions of the experts, then brings the experts and the decision makers closer together. Although it isn’t possible or necessary for a president or prime minister to listen in on every intelligence analysis meeting, it’s possible to organize the experts’ information to give the decision maker much greater insight as to its meaning. This process may somewhat resemble a marketing focus group; it’s a simple, remarkably clever way to bring decision makers closer to the source of the expert information and opinions on which they must base their decisions.
From the first paragraph we can learn that______.
选项
A、executive, specialized expert, are no more clever than person in the street
B、very few people decide before they think
C、those who pride themselves on being decisive often fail to do so
D、people tend to consider carefully before making decisions
答案
C
解析
本题是一道简单推论。文章一开始就谈到,大多数人实际上先决定,后思考(decide before they think),很少有人能够在做决定前那一霎那间就将各种问题考虑得面面俱到(few people take inventory Of the many branching possibilities,possible outcomes,side effects),take inventory of(盘点,编制……清单)。而自夸有决断能力的人(those who pride themselves on being decisive)经常就试图要那么做,然而却做不到这一点,他们的头脑一旦锁定一种见解,其思想就固定了,所以本题的正确答案为C。
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考研英语二
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