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In the 1960s pop was a young person’s business. But today age is no barrier to success. The Rolling Stones are still touring in

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问题     In the 1960s pop was a young person’s business. But today age is no barrier to success. The Rolling Stones are still touring in their 60s. Bob Dylan’s songwriting skills have survived intact. Sir Paul McCartney warbles on.
    It is time to do for enterprise what such ageing rockers have done for pop music: explode the myth that it is a monopoly of the young. This idea has been powerfully reinforced by the latest tech boom: Facebook, Google and Groupon were all founded by people in their 20s or teens. Mark Zuckerberg, aged 27, will soon be able to count his years on earth in billions of dollars.
    Research suggests that age may in fact be an advantage for entrepreneurs. Vivek Wadhwa of Singularity University in California studied more than 500 American high-tech and engineering companies with more than $ lm in sales. He discovered that the average age of the founders of successful American technology businesses is 39. There were twice as many successful founders over 50 as under 25, and twice as many over 60 as under 20.
    Experience continues to count for a great deal, in business as in other walks of life—or, to borrow a phrase from P. J. O’Rourke, age and guile can still beat "youth, innocence and a bad haircut". It is one thing to invent a clever new product but quite another to hire employees or build a sales machine.
    And even when it comes to breakthrough ideas, age may still be an asset. Benjamin Jones of Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management and Bruce Weinberg of Ohio State University examined the careers of Nobel Prizewinners in chemistry, physics and medicine. They found that the average age at which these stars made their greatest innovations is now higher than it was a century ago.
    This is not to say that the rise of young entrepreneurs like Mr. Zuckerberg is insignificant. The barriers that once discouraged enterprise among the young are collapsing. Social networks make it easier to build contacts. Knowledge-intensive industries require relatively little capital. But the fact that barriers are collapsing for the young does not mean that they are being erected for greybeards. The point is that the creation of fast-growing businesses is now open to everybody regardless of age.
    The evidence that older people are if anything becoming more enterprising should help to calm two of the biggest worries that hang over the West. One is that the greying of the population will inevitably produce economic sluggishness. The second is that older people will face hard times as companies shed older workers in the name of efficiency and welfare states cut back on their pensions.
The author shows______the success achieved by young entrepreneurs like Mr. Zuckerberg.
选项 A、appreciation for
B、contempt for
C、prejudice against
D、indifference to
答案A
解析 本文作者重在褒扬老年人的创造力，但是本题考查的是作者对于年轻的创业者的态度。在文章的第五段作者重点陈述了他对于年轻人创造力和老年人创造力的观点。第五段的第一句话作者就申明，他赞扬老年人的创造力“并不是想否定扎克伯格这类年轻企业家”。作者只是想让读者意识到，在现代的社会，“不分年龄，每个人都有町能开创快速发展的事业。”由此我们可以判断，作者对于那些年纪轻轻就取得了卓越表现的企业家并没有任何不满或偏见之意，相反是由衷地欣赏。[A]选项正确。
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