MBA考试

根据网考网考试中心的统计分析，以下试题在2019/6/18日MBA习题练习中，答错率较高，为：87%
【单选题】Whether you think the human story begins in a garden in Mesopotamia known asEden, or in present-day eastAfrica, it is clear that human beings did not start life as an urban creature. Man’s habitat at the outset was dominated by the need to find food, and hunting and gathering were rural pursuits. Not until around 11,000 years ago, did he start building anything that might be called a village. It took another 6000 years for cities of more than 100,000 people to develop.
In terms of human history this may seem a welcome development. It would be questionable to say that nothing of consequence has ever come out of the countryside. The wheel was presumably a rural invention.Even city-dwellers need bread as well as circuses.And ifDr. Johnson and Shelley were right to say that poets are the true legislators of mankind, then all those hills and lakes and other rural delights must be given credit for inspiring them.
But the rural contribution to human progress seems slight compared with the urban one.Cities’ development is synonymous with human development. The first villages came with the emergence of agriculture and the domestication of animals: people no longer had to wander but could instead draw together in settlements, allowing some to develop particular skills.After a while the farmers could produce surpluses, and the various products could be exchangeD、
Living together meant security.But people also drew together for the practical advantages of being in a particular place: by a river or spring, on a defensible hill or peninsula, next to an estuary (the mouth of a river) or other source of fooD、Also important, argue historians, was a settlement’s capacity to draw people to it as a meeting-place, often for sacred or spiritual purposes. Graves, groves, even caves might become places for ceremonies and rituals. Man did not live by bread alone.
But bread, in the broadest sense, was important. People came to cities not just to worship but to trade and the goods they bought and sold were not just farm products but the manufactures of urban craftsmen and skilled workers. The city became a centre of exchange, both of goods and of ideas, and so it also became a centre of learning, and innovation.
Cities were much more than all of this, of course, and they were not all the same.As they developed, some were most notable for their religious role, as the hub of an empire, as centres of administration, political development, learning, or commerce. Some flourished, some died, their longevity depending on factors as varied as conquest, plague, misgovernment or economic collapse.
By saying "Man did not live by bread alone" (Line 6, Paragraph 4), the author means______.
[A] people needed to eat a variety of food
[B] men often lived beside food sources
[C] men ought to live a more noble life
[D] besides food, there were other pursuits for men
网考网参考答案：D，答错率：87%
网考网试题解析：
[试题类型] 语意理解题。 [解题思路] 根据题干定位到文章第四段。本段第二句指出，人们还因为实际的好处而定居到一处，比如食物的来源地等。第三句接着指出，同样重要的是，人们还出于宗教或精神上的目的而集中到一处。所以，作者在此指出人类不仅仅靠面包生存，言下之意是除了物质需求，人类还有精神需求，选项[D]准确地传达了作者的意心。 [干扰排除] 原文中“面包”喻指食物、物质需求，而不是面包本身。选项[A]望文生义，人类不仅仅需要面包，并不由此意味着“人们需要各种各样的食物”，该项是对原文的曲解。选项[B]是根据第二句next to an estuary (the mouth of a river) or other source of food设置的干扰项，原文意为人们居住在食物的来源地，说明人类生存需要面包，但不能解释“人类不仅仅靠面包生存”的言外之意。选项[C]人们应当过更高尚的生活，此处将宗教或精神上的追求等同于更高尚的生活，是对原文含义的过度引申。 document.getElementById("warp").style.display="none"; document.getElementById("content").style.display="block"; 查看试题解析出处>>