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Young mums shopping in the Copley Mall in downtown Boston last month found themselves being questioned about their use of soap b

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问题     Young mums shopping in the Copley Mall in downtown Boston last month found themselves being questioned about their use of soap by students from Harvard Business School (HBS). The students were not doing odd jobs to earn beer money. They were preparing to help a firm in Brazil launch an
    Fieldwork—i. e. , going out and talking to people—is a big change for HBS. Its students used to sit in a classroom and discuss case studies written by professors. Now they may also work in a developing country and launch a start-up. "Learning by doing" will become the norm, if a radical overhaul of the MBA curriculum succeeds.
    Nitin Nohria, who became dean of HBS in July 2010, has long lamented the failure of business schools to fulfill their mission of turning management into a profession similar to law or medicine. Asked what should be expected from someone with an MBA, he replies that "obviously, they should master a body of knowledge. But we should also expect them to apply that knowledge with some measure of judgment. " MBA students have long been sent on summer internships with prospective employers, but HBS, like most business schools, did little else to help them with the practical application of management studies.
    The new field practice will include three elements. First, team-building exercises. Students take turns to lead a group engaged in a project such as designing an "eco-friendly sculpture". They learn to collaborate and to give and take feedback.
    Second, students will be sent to work for a week with one of more than 140 firms in 11 countries. Already the new intakes have had conference calls with these companies, ranging from the Brazilian soapmaker to a Chinese property firm.
    In the third novel part of the course, students will be given eight weeks, and seed money of $ 3,000 each, to launch a small company. The most successful, as voted by their fellow students, will get more funding. It remains to be seen if this amounts to much more than a business-plan competition, though Mr. Nohria says he hopes some real businesses will be created.
    In January, the vote in favor of trying the field method had been held among HBS professors, and the result is "as enthusiastic as you could get from a faculty," says Mr. Nohria, wryly. The experiment does not come cheap, adding 10-15% to the course’s cost, which HBS will bear while it figures out what works. Besides, it is unclear how much the one-week working assignments will achieve. Pankaj Ghemawat, a management guru, says "the literature suggests that an immersion experience needs to be at least 2-3 weeks and be backed up with time in the classroom. " The HBS students’ classroom preparation will have to be pretty thorough, then, to make up for the brevity of their field trips.
Which of the following statements is true about the new initiative proposed by Mr. Nohria?
选项 A、It can help to develop students’ team-work spirit and leadership quality.
B、Students can take part in the decision-making process of a company via teleconference.
C、A business-plan competition will be held in the final stage of fieldwork.
D、The students with best performance in fieldwork will be awarded a sum of money.
答案A
解析 本题主要针对文章第四至第六段实践教学法开展的三个环节设置选项。[A]选项的内容和第四段提到的team-building exercises有关。在这个环节，要求学生轮流领导一个小组开展一个项目，他们要相互协作并且分析反馈信息。很明显，该项目的目的就是要培养学生的团队合作意识以及领导能力，因此[A]选项的说法是正确的。[B]选项根据关键词teleconference锁定文章第五段的内容。第五段提到，在实践教学的第二个环节，学生将会被派到11个国家的140家公司中的某一家公司去实地开展工作，而且这些学生已经同这些公司进行了电话会议。由此可见，[B]选项利用了conference calls一词设置干扰，曲解了原文的意思。[C]选项根据关键词business-plan competition可以锁定原文第六段的内容，“It remains to be seen if this amounts to much more than a business-plan competition，though Mr．Nohria says he hopes some real businesses will be created．”在实践的最后一个环节，每位学生都会被给予一定的资金支持来开展创业活动，但这样的活动究竟是更像一次商业计划书大赛还是能够真正孕育出创新型的企业，还无法定论。[C]选项是利用business-plan设置的干扰选项。[D]选项利用第六段中的“The most successful，as voted by their fellow students，will get more funding．”一句话设置干扰。这里的意思是在创业活动中表现最好的学生能够得到更多的资金支持，而不是说在整个实践活动中表现最优的学生将得到金钱奖励。
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