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Many years ago, a merchant in London had the misfortune to owe a huge sum to
Many years ago, a merchant in London had the misfortune to owe a huge sum to
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Many years ago, a merchant in London had the misfortune to owe a huge sum to a money-lender who, old and ugly, fancied the merchant’s beautiful daughter. He said he would cancel the merchant’s debt if he could have the girl instead.
Both the merchant and his daughter were horrified. So the cunning money-lender proposed they let chance decide the matter. He told them he would put a black pebble and a white pebble into an empty money-bag and then the girl would have to pick out of the pebbles. If she chose the black pebble, she would become his wife and her father’s debt would be cancelled. If she chose the white one, she would stay with her father and the debt would be cancelled. But if she refuses to pick out a pebble, her father would be thrown into jail.
Reluctantly the merchant agreed. They were standing on a pebble-strewn path as they talked and the money-lender stooped to pick up the two pebbles. The girl, sharp-eyed with fright, noticed that he picked up two black pebbles and put them into the money-bag.
What would you do if you were the unfortunate girl? If you had to advise her what would you advise her to do?
What type of thinking would you use to solve the problem? You may believe that careful logical analysis must solve the problem if there is a solution. This type of thinking is straight-forward vertical thinking. The other type of thinking is lateral thinking.
Vertical thinkers are not usually of much help to a girl in this situation. The way they analyze it, there are three possibilities:
1. The gift should refuse to take a pebble.
2. The girl should show that there are two black pebbles in the bag and expose the money-lender as a cheat.
3. The girl should take a black pebble and sacrifice herself to save her father from prison.
None of these suggestions is very helpful, for if the girl doesn’t take a pebble her father goes to prison, and if she does take a pebble, she has to marry the money-lender.
The girl in the story put her hand into the bag and took out a pebble. Without looking she fumbled and let it fall to the path and immediately, it lost among the others. The girl apologized for her clumsiness and suggested that the money-lender look at the remaining pebble in the bag and then they could tell the color of the pebble she has chosen. And the money lender dare not admit his dishonesty. The girl had changed an impossible situation into an extremely advantageous one.
This story shows the difference between vertical thinking and lateral thinking. Vertical thinkers take very reasonable view of a situation and proceed logically and carefully worked it out. Lateral thinkers tend to explore all the different ways of looking at something, rather than accepting the most promising and proceeding from that. [br] It is safe to infer from the passage that ______.
选项
A、lateral thinking is useful for creative problem-solving
B、a lateral thinker is free from the restraint of assumptions
C、lateral thinking can produce better and more effective solutions to problem than vertical thinking
D、both Aand B.
答案
D
解析
通过本文,推断出横向思维在创造性地解决问题中非常有用,而且横向思维者不受假定前提的限制。正如文章中的例证,纵向思维的人关注的是拿出来的石子的颜色,这无益于问题的解决。而女孩正是抛却了常规思维的限制,关注剩下石子的颜色,终于创造性地解决了问题。
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