MBA考试

根据网考网考试中心的统计分析，以下试题在2019/9/9日MBA习题练习中，答错率较高，为：66%
【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.
One reason why people began to live together is that______.
[A] they needed to find food together
[B] they would assemble for particular purposes
[C] they could be protected by rivers
[D] they could share the nearby natural resources
网考网参考答案：B，答错率：66%
网考网试题解析：
[试题类型] 具体信息题。 [解题思路] 根据题干关键词live together定位到文章第四段。第四段第三句和第四句指出，人们通常出于宗教或精神上的目的而集中到一处(often for sacred or spiritual purposes)，聚居地可以吸引人们聚集到一处举行庆典或仪式。这是人们群居的原因之一，选项[B]“人们为了特殊的目的而聚集到一处”是正确选项。 [干扰排除] 选项[A]“他们需要一起寻找食物”原文未提及，原文第四段第二句指出人类聚居会选在江口或其他的食物来源地，这是为了方便寻找食物，但并不是说要一起寻找食物。选项[C]与第四段意思不符，原文第一句指出，住在一起意味着安全，但居住在河边或泉水边(by a river or spring)是为了这些地点的便利，并非出于安全原因。选项[D]“他们可以共享附近的自然资源”，“共享”的意义在原文没有提及，故排除此项。 document.getElementById("warp").style.display="none"; document.getElementById("content").style.display="block"; 查看试题解析出处>>