GWD 17-Q39

amoonynot

39. GWD17-Q39:B

Which of the following most logically completes the passage?

 

On the whole, scientists do their most creative work before age forty, a tendency that has been taken to show that aging carries with it a loss of creative capacity.  An alternative explanation is that by age forty most scientists have worked in their field for fifteen or more years and that by then they have exhausted the opportunity for creative work in that field.  Supporting this explanation is the finding that ______.

 

A.      the average age of recipients of scientific research grants is significantly greater than forty

B.       a disproportionately large number of the scientists who produce highly creative work beyond age forty entered their field at an older age than is common

C.      many scientists temper their own expectations of what they can achieve in their research work by their belief that their creativity will decline as they age

D.      scientists who are older than forty tend to find more satisfaction in other activities, such as teaching and mentoring, than they do in pursuing their own research

E.       there is a similar diminution of creativity with age in nonscientific fields, such as poetry and musical composition

答案是B,如何理解呢，我有点看不明白B的意思，为什么E不对呢？

amoonynot

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szy733

非常tricky的一个题目。核心：一种观点是年龄降低创造力，而另一种解释则是“到40岁时那些科学家已经工作了将近15或更多年”，并且“到那时他们已经耗尽了所有的创造的机会”，注意这里说的“那些科学家”是那些没能做出creative works的科学家，所以分析选项B，说“成功的科学家一般进入他的领域都相对较晚（换句话说，等他们到40岁的时候，工作年限不会超过15年，支持了“工作年限长降低创造力”的说法）”。题眼：工作年限和浪费创造机会是没能在40岁之前形成creative works的原因。

fogwind

E完全无关。题目讨论的是科学家的创新，E说的是非科学领域nonscientific fields

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