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  3. 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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问题     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 radical 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.
The author’s attitude towards mixing of cultures is one of______.
选项 A、unrestricted enthusiasm
B、eager advocacy
C、genuine concern
D、satisfied approval
答案B
解析 属态度推断题。判断作者态度题需要分析行文中作者的用词。题目中的mixing ofcultures在行文中以不同的形式出现，如：diversity，hybrid，diverse，mixing，hybridity。作者在文中不断使用creativity,valuable，most valued，rewards，essential，promote，innovate，outpouring等褒义词。而第四段第五至七句重复使用了never before引导的倒装句和平行句，更是明确地表达了作者对文化的融合所持的支持、提倡的态度。因此，选项B(积极倡导)正确。选项A、D的概括有点过头，因为毕竟作者还是在第四段稍微提到了一些弊病。选项C的concern(担忧)与文章整体基调不符。
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