2012MBA英语阅读理解：阅读记词Passage17.docVIP

2012MBA英语阅读理解：阅读记词 Passage17 Lateral thinking (迂回思维 ) , first described by Edward de Bone in 1967, is just a few years older than Edwards son-Caspar was born. You might imagine that Caspar was raised to be an adventurous thinker, but the de Bone was so famous, Caspars parents worried that any time he would say something bright at school, his teachers might snap, Where do you get that idea from?” 　　“We had to be careful and not overdo it,”Edward admits. Now Caspar is at Oxford-which once looked unlikely because he is also slightly dyslexic ( 诵读困难). In fact, when he was applying to Oxford, none of his school teachers thought he had a chance。“So then we did several thinking sessions: his father says, ”“using my techniques and， when he went up for the exam, he did extremely well.?Soon after, Edward de Bone decided to write his latest book, Teach Your Child How to Think, in which he transforms the thinking skills he developed for brainstorming businessmen into informal exercises for parents and children to share. 　　Thinking is traditionally regarded as something executed in a logical sequence, and everybody knows that children aren’t very logical. So isn’t an uphill battle, trying to teach them to think? “You know,” Edward de Bone says,” if you examine people’s thinking, it is quite unusual to find faults of logic. But the faults of perception are huge! Often we think ineffectively because we take too limited a view.” 　　Teach Your Child How to Think offers lessons in perception improvement, of clearly seeing the implications of something you are saying and of exploring the alternatives. 阅读passage17原文 “迂回思维(thinking：consideration， thought)”是由爱德华-德-波恩在1967年首次描述(describe： narrate， picture， state)的，这种思维的诞生只比他的儿子卡斯泊出生早几年。你可能想象(imagine： assume， suppose)：卡斯泊会被培养(raise：bring up， develop， train)成一名富有冒险精神的(adventurous)思想家(thinker： ideologist);但是，由于德-波恩家族太有名(famous： distinguished， eminent， noted)了，所以卡斯泊的父母担心(worry： care， fear)：无论什么时候他在学校讲出某些聪慧的(bright： clever， intelligent)言语