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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 best summarizes the main idea of the text?
选项 A、We are going to step into an age of creativity and innovation.
B、The innovation motivator is changing from the elite to common people.
C、Common people have little to do with inventions and innovations.
D、Corporations will benefit from a new resource: the online population.
答案B
解析 下列哪一项是对本文主要内容的最佳总结?[A]我们将步入一个创造和革新的时代。[B]创新的推动力已经从精英转向大众。[C]普通人与创造和革新没有关系。[D]公司将从网民这一新资源中获益。本文的主要内容是关于发明创造的主体正在由以前的少数精英向普通大众转变，这使我们的社会步入了前所未有的创新时代。[B]全面而准确地概括了文章主题，为正确答案。[A]是本文讨论的主题带来的结果，并不是讨论的中心内容；[C]描述的是以前的状况，发明与普通大众没有什么关系．[D]也是本文讨论的主题可能带来的变化，也不是本文的中心内容。故排除[A]、[C]、[D]三项，[B]为正确答案。
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