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In the 1960s pop was a young person’s business. But today age is no barrier to success. The Rolling Stones are still touring in

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问题     In the 1960s pop was a young person’s business. But today age is no barrier to success. The Rolling Stones are still touring in their 60s. Bob Dylan’s songwriting skills have survived intact. Sir Paul McCartney warbles on.
    It is time to do for enterprise what such ageing rockers have done for pop music: explode the myth that it is a monopoly of the young. This idea has been powerfully reinforced by the latest tech boom: Facebook, Google and Groupon were all founded by people in their 20s or teens. Mark Zuckerberg, aged 27, will soon be able to count his years on earth in billions of dollars.
    Research suggests that age may in fact be an advantage for entrepreneurs. Vivek Wadhwa of Singularity University in California studied more than 500 American high-tech and engineering companies with more than $ lm in sales. He discovered that the average age of the founders of successful American technology businesses is 39. There were twice as many successful founders over 50 as under 25, and twice as many over 60 as under 20.
    Experience continues to count for a great deal, in business as in other walks of life—or, to borrow a phrase from P. J. O’Rourke, age and guile can still beat "youth, innocence and a bad haircut". It is one thing to invent a clever new product but quite another to hire employees or build a sales machine.
    And even when it comes to breakthrough ideas, age may still be an asset. Benjamin Jones of Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management and Bruce Weinberg of Ohio State University examined the careers of Nobel Prizewinners in chemistry, physics and medicine. They found that the average age at which these stars made their greatest innovations is now higher than it was a century ago.
    This is not to say that the rise of young entrepreneurs like Mr. Zuckerberg is insignificant. The barriers that once discouraged enterprise among the young are collapsing. Social networks make it easier to build contacts. Knowledge-intensive industries require relatively little capital. But the fact that barriers are collapsing for the young does not mean that they are being erected for greybeards. The point is that the creation of fast-growing businesses is now open to everybody regardless of age.
    The evidence that older people are if anything becoming more enterprising should help to calm two of the biggest worries that hang over the West. One is that the greying of the population will inevitably produce economic sluggishness. The second is that older people will face hard times as companies shed older workers in the name of efficiency and welfare states cut back on their pensions.
Vivek Wadhwa’s research found that______.
选项 A、the aged were more likely to start a business than the young
B、it’s hard for a business man to thrive before he is 40 years old
C、the young start-up entrepreneurs are more likely to fail than their old counterparts
D、the older the entrepreneur is, the more likely he is going to succeed in business
答案C
解析 根据题干中的关键词锁定文章第三段的内容。第三段第一句话就交代了这一段的主旨大意，“年长可能成为创业成功的优势”。美国加州奇点大学的卫维克·瓦德瓦通过对500多家美国企业展开的调查发现成功创立者中，年龄大于50岁的人数是小于25岁人数的两倍，而年龄大于60岁的人数也是低于20岁人数的两倍。因此，他的研究结果揭示了年纪和成功创业之间的正相关关系。正确答案应该选[C]。[A]选项偷换概念，年长的人创业成功率比年纪轻的人高，并不意味着年长的人的创业率比年纪轻的人高。[B]选项错误，卫维克·瓦德瓦发现创业成功者的平均年纪是39岁，因此说生意人很难在40岁之前发家是错误的。[D]选项乍看之下与[C]选项很相似，但实际上有细微的差别。卫维克·瓦德瓦的研究只是表明了年纪长的人比年纪轻的人创业更容易成功，但并没有说年纪越老，越容易成功。比如60岁和70岁的人，你就不能说后者比前者创业更容易成功。
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