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In today’s world, racial, ethnic, and national categories no longer impose fixed barriers or unbending traditions. This is not t
In today’s world, racial, ethnic, and national categories no longer impose fixed barriers or unbending traditions. This is not t
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2022-04-20
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In today’s world, racial, ethnic, and national categories no longer impose fixed barriers or unbending traditions. This is not to say that these categories have disappeared. Rather, they are mixing and interacting in new ways. The hybrid nature of today’s society is a valuable resource that companies and businesses should tap into in their quest to innovate.
The ability to apply knowledge to new situations is the most valued currency in today’s economy. More than ever, creativity rewards those who exercise it, so curiosity about the source of creativity has never been higher. How creativity comes about is a riddle, but a few things seem clear. Highly creative people don’t necessarily excel in raw brainpower. They are misfits on some level. They tend to question accepted views and to consider contradictory ones.
The implications are plain to see: Divergent thinking is an essential ingredient of creativity. Diverse groups produce diverse thinking. Therefore, diversity promotes creativity. This logic applies to corporations, research teams, think tanks, and other groups of creators. Those who rely on a team of diverse people are more likely to innovate than those who rely on platoons of similar people.
To be sure, hybridity poses risks. A hybrid person may lose himself in a jumble of affiliations. A hybrid nation may botch the process of reinvention. Still, the price of such errors seems lower than the cost of circling the ethnic wagons and either shutting out people who are different or forcing them to become "one of us. " Never before have so many people married across racial and ethnic lines. Never before have so many people left their homelands for work or pleasure. Never before have so many people touched or tasted the clothes, foods, musical styles, and ideas of cultures not available to them in their youth. These people are not becoming phantoms or dilettantes. Rather, they are part of an outpouring of human creativity that is being driven by racial mixing.
"You cannot spill a drop of American blood," Herman Melville wrote in 1849, "without spilling the blood of the whole world. " More than ever, Melville’s declaration applies not only to America, but to all nations.
What does the word "botch" (Line 2, Para. 4) probably mean?
选项
A、Mess up.
B、Benefit from.
C、Flourish in.
D、Miss.
答案
A
解析
本题是词汇题。botch所在的句子与其前面一句构成了平行结构,而且在结构上这两句均是对该段主题句To be sure,hybridity poses risks(可以肯定的是,混杂状态是有风险的)的论证。这两句指出:混血儿由于各方面的关系错综复杂,可能会迷失自我;一个种族混杂的国家可能会botch革新的进程。由此可推知botch的意思与前句中的lose himself in a jumble of affiliations相近,而决不会是个褒义词。而且下一句“Still,the price of such errors…”中的such errors(这种过失)也包含了botch the process of reinvention,因此符合此意的应该是A项,属于同义替换。B项和C项均为褒义词,与上下文的逻辑不符,属于正反混淆,故排除,D项达不到risks和errors的程度,属于偷换概念,故排除。
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