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A revolution is coming in the field of global education. Up to now, all leading universities have relied primarily on the deep W

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问题     A revolution is coming in the field of global education. Up to now, all leading universities have relied primarily on the deep Western pool of wisdom to provide both the method and content of their educational systems. This made sense. Western education created the most successful societies humankind has ever seen.
    Asia benefited from Western education even under colonial rule. When the imperialist Lord Macaulay was put in charge of education in British India, he called for English to be the language of instruction. He promised that Indians’ minds would begin to open when they read those English texts. The magic that Macaulay predicted did indeed happen: Western schooling opened Indian minds. The new, confident India of today owes its success at least in part to the influence of Western literature and learning.
    Now a second Asian cultural awakening is upon us. There is a growing realization that the world can learn a lot from, say, Chinese and Indian civilizations, in everything from poetry and philosophy to traditional medicine and strategic thinking. Paradoxically, leading Western institutions are ahead of their Asian counterparts in grasping this. Sadly, most Asian educators have not fully understood how much the world is changing. They are comfortable with the old paradigm of copying the West. But as Asian economies reach the same level as Western ones, this will no longer work. Asian universities will have to reinvent themselves, bringing together the best of Western and Asian learning.
    The degree of adaptation will vary from discipline to discipline. The Asian faculties of science, mathematics and engineering will teach the same curricula as Western universities, but they will have to stop viewing themselves merely as brain factories producing scientists and engineers in large amounts only for economic growth. Creativity and innovation will become more important. The explosive success of American universities stems at least in part from the fact that they are treated not merely as economic units but as the guardians of the souls of their people.
    In the field of social science， the challenges may be even greater. In the multi-civilizational world of the future, the prevailing assumption that all social-science theories are universally applicable and hence there is no need to study other cultures, religions or peoples will appear both strange and irrelevant.
    In advocating an open attitude to all cultures, the new Asian scholars may only be reviving an old Western ideal which declared that educated minds understood both their own cultures and the world. To succeed, Asian universities will have to cultivate equally strong traditions of freedom of spirit and inquiry that have been the hallmark of great American universities throughout the ages. If they can do that, they may even surpass their Western counterparts.
British India is mentioned in Paragraph 2 in order to________.
选项 A、show the bright side of British colonial rule
B、reveal the role of English as the language of instruction
C、indicate the educational backwardness of a colonial country
D、manifest the great influence of Western civilization
答案D
解析 本题是细节题。根据题干关键词British 1ndia定位至第二段。该段第二句至倒数第二句都是在讲具体的事例，那么这一事例要说明的问题就应该在上下文中。先往上文找，该段首句是段落主题句，提出“即使在殖民统治下，亚洲也曾受益于西方教育”，由此可以看出，接下来举英属印度在学习英语文化的过程中思想开放的例子就是为了论证这一观点。而且下文“今天崭新的、自信的印度所取得的成就，至少在一定程度上要归因于西方文学和知识的影响”又进一步总结了西方文明对印度的影响。可知D项的内容是对原文内容的同义替换，故答案选D。A项的British colonial rule和B项的English均局限于事例本身；C项“表明一个殖民国家教育落后的状况”不是本段的写作目的。故均排除。
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