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  3. "3M" comes from "Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing," but those three Ms might better stand for Mistake=Magic=Money. Throughout it

"3M" comes from "Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing," but those three Ms might better stand for Mistake=Magic=Money. Throughout it

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问题     "3M" comes from "Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing," but those three Ms might better stand for Mistake=Magic=Money. Throughout its 101-year history, many of 3M’s breakthrough products have followed a similar arc: A 3M customer identifies a problem, and a 3M engineer expresses confidence in being able to solve it. He bangs his head against the wall for years, facing repeated setbacks, until management finally tells him to stop wasting time and money. Undeterred, the engineer stumbles onto a solution and turns a dead end into a ringing success.
    Although William McKnight, the man responsible for 3M’s entrepreneurial culture, was not, in fact, a company founder, he does deserve the credit for what made 3M successful during his 59 years at the company and beyond. Says Noa Staryk, chair of the McKnight Foundation, which McKnight founded in 1953: "There are two values that resonate from my great-grandfather: innovation and risk taking."
    His tenure started—naturally—with a mistake. Just as the company showed a profit, with sales at about $22,000 a month, angry clients suddenly began returning 3M sandpaper. It turned out that several casks of olive oil had spilled onto a shipment of 3M abrasives in transit, and the oil-tainted "sand" failed to retain its adhesion to the backing paper. And no one had noticed the problem. After that debacle McKnight established a research lab to test materials at every stage of production.
    McKnight’s move to center the business on research ended up having the dual effect of not only testing ideas but also generating them. He set the tone with his philosophy of "Listen to anybody with an idea." When he received a letter in 1920 from an ink manufacturer requesting bulk mineral samples(not one of 3M’s businesses), McKnight wanted to know what the correspondent would do with the minerals. A Philadelphia inventor named Francis Okie had sent the note, and he wanted to develop his invention of waterproof sandpaper. McKnight realized that Okie’s idea would rapidly be accepted because it produced less friction than dry sandpaper and didn’t generate hazardous dust when used wet. He bought the rights to the idea and hired Okie, and by 1921, 3M had released Wetordry sandpaper, its first breakthrough product. As Richard Carlton, 3M’s director of manufacturing and author of its first testing manual, wrote, "Every idea should have a chance to prove its worth, and this is true for two reasons:(1)If it is good, we want it;(2)if it is not good, we will have purchased peace of mind when we have proved it impractical."
What is implied in the first sentence?
选项 A、3M isn’t really from Minnesota.
B、3M doesn’t like to waste money.
C、3M isn’t good at solving problems.
D、3M’s success story is unusual.
答案D
解析 属句子理解题。“3M”从“明尼苏达矿业及制造”而来，但这三个M代表“错误=魔术=金钱”可能更合适。选项A与原文不符，B、C选项在这句话中找不到任何线索。正确答案是D，因为3M的成功来源于错误，这是它的不寻常之处。
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