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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.
Asian universities will have to reform their educational systems because________.
选项 A、it will no longer work to follow Western practices
B、Western education they rely on loses its reputation
C、Asian culture is superior to Western culture
D、they can’t meet the demands of economic growth
答案A
解析 本题是细节题。题干中的关键词reform their educational systems是对原文第三段末句中reinvent themselves的同义替换，故答案出处就应该在上文中找。该段倒数第二句和倒数第三句提到，“他们满足于照搬西方的老一套做法。但随着亚洲经济体达到与西方经济体相同的水平的时候，这就行不通了”。可知，亚洲大学不得不改革教育原因就是照搬西方的老一套做法行不通了，故答案选A，选项中的to follow western practices和原文中的copying the West是同义替换。B项中的Western education loses its reputation在文中并未提及，故排除，C项干扰信息来自于第三段第二句，该句只是说亚洲文化有许多可取之处，并没有说亚洲文化优于西方文化，属于偷换概念，故排除；D项干扰信息来自于第三段倒数第二句，也属于偷换概念，故排除。
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