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The word "globalization" usually conjures up images of globe-spanning companies and distance-destroying technologies. Its enable

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问题     The word "globalization" usually conjures up images of globe-spanning companies and distance-destroying technologies. Its enablers are the laws of comparative advantage and economies of scale.
    In The Great Brain Race Ben Wildavsky points to another mighty agent o{ globalization: universities. These were some of the world’s first "global" institutions. In the Middle Ages great universities such as Paris and Bologna attracted "wandering scholars" from across Europe. In the 19th century Germany’s research universities attracted scholars from across the world. In the early 20th century philanthropists such as Cecil Rhodes and William Harkness established scholarships to foster deeper links between countries. By the 1960s globe-trotting professors were so commonplace that they bad become the butt of jokes. (What is the difference between God and professor so and so? God is everywhere. Professor so and so is everywhere but here. )
    Universities are obsessed by the global marketplace for students and professors. They are trying to attract as many students from abroad as possible (not least because foreign students usually pay full fees). Nearly 3 million students now spend some time studying in foreign countries, a number that has risen steeply in recent years. Universities are also setting up overseas. New York University has opened a branch in Abu Dhabi. Six American universities have created a higher-education supermarket in Qatar. Almost every university worth its name has formed an alliance with a leading Chinese institution.
    But globalization is going deeper than just the competition for talent: a growing number of countries are trying to create an elite group of "global universities" that are capable of competing with the best American institutions. China and India are focusing resources on a small group. The French and German governments are doing hattie with academic egalitarians in an attempt to create European Ivy Leagues. Behind all this is the idea that world-class universities can make a disproportionate contribution to economic growth.
    This is a fascinating story. But Mr. Wildavsky, a former education reporter who now works for both the Kauffman Foundation and the Brookings Institution, is too earnest a writer to make the best of it. He wastes too much ink summarising research papers and quoting "experts" uttering banalities. And he fails to point out the humour of sabbatical man jet-setting hither and thither to discuss such staples of modern academic life as poverty and inequality. Mr. Wildavsky should spend less time with his fellow think-tankers (who are mesmerised by the idea of a global knowledge economy) and more talking to students, who experience the disadvantages as well as the advantages of the new cult of globalization at first hand.
The purpose of setting up an outstanding group of "global universities" is to ______.
选项 A、compete for excellent students
B、compete with American institutions
C、attract more foreign students
D、make contributions to economic growth
答案D
解析 本题考查打造“全球大学”精英团队的目的，由题干中的"global universities"定位到文章第四段首句。该句指出越来越多的国家致力于打造“全球大学”精英团队。接着以中国、印度、法国和德国为例具体说明打造“全球大学”精英团队的思想已经非常普遍。该段末句指出了其流行的目的——世界顶级的大学可以给经济增长带来无尽的推动力，即[D]所述。该段首句明确指出学术全球化的发展不仅仅是单纯的人才竞争，然后举出“全球大学”精英团队建设的例子，由此可推断"global universities"的建设并非为了competition for excellent students，由此排除[A]。同样[B]和[C]也只是人才竞争的一个方面，也不是正确答案。  
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