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A revolution is coming in the field of global education. Up to now, all leading universities have relied primarily on the deep W

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问题     A revolution is coming in the field of global education. Up to now, all leading universities have relied primarily on the deep Western pool of wisdom to provide both the method and content of their educational systems. This made sense. Western education created the most successful societies humankind has ever seen.
    Asia benefited from Western education even under colonial rule. When the imperialist Lord Macaulay was put in charge of education in British India, he called for English to be the language of instruction. He promised that Indians’ minds would begin to open when they read those English texts. The magic that Macaulay predicted did indeed happen: Western schooling opened Indian minds. The new, confident India of today owes its success at least in part to the influence of Western literature and learning.
    Now a second Asian cultural awakening is upon us. There is a growing realization that the world can learn a lot from, say, Chinese and Indian civilizations, in everything from poetry and philosophy to traditional medicine and strategic thinking. Paradoxically, leading Western institutions are ahead of their Asian counterparts in grasping this. Sadly, most Asian educators have not fully understood how much the world is changing. They are comfortable with the old paradigm of copying the West. But as Asian economies reach the same level as Western ones, this will no longer work. Asian universities will have to reinvent themselves, bringing together the best of Western and Asian learning.
    The degree of adaptation will vary from discipline to discipline. The Asian faculties of science, mathematics and engineering will teach the same curricula as Western universities, but they will have to stop viewing themselves merely as brain factories producing scientists and engineers in large amounts only for economic growth. Creativity and innovation will become more important. The explosive success of American universities stems at least in part from the fact that they are treated not merely as economic units but as the guardians of the souls of their people.
    In the field of social science， the challenges may be even greater. In the multi-civilizational world of the future, the prevailing assumption that all social-science theories are universally applicable and hence there is no need to study other cultures, religions or peoples will appear both strange and irrelevant.
    In advocating an open attitude to all cultures, the new Asian scholars may only be reviving an old Western ideal which declared that educated minds understood both their own cultures and the world. To succeed, Asian universities will have to cultivate equally strong traditions of freedom of spirit and inquiry that have been the hallmark of great American universities throughout the ages. If they can do that, they may even surpass their Western counterparts.
The author’s attitude toward the prevalent assumption in the field of social science is________.
选项 A、critical
B、supportive
C、biased
D、indifferent
答案A
解析 本题是观点题。作者的态度要通过文章中表示作者态度或情感的词来判断。根据题干的关键词the prevalent assumption in the field of social science定位至第五段第二句。该句主干为the assumption…will appear both strange and irrelevant(这种假设将显得既荒诞又不切实际)，作者用了strange”荒诞的”和irrelevant“不切实际的”来形容社科领域存在的这种假设，可见作者对这一假设的态度是否定的，概括起来就是critical“批判的”，故答案选 A。B项与文章内容相反，C项和D项属于典型错误。故均排除。
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