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Why does Peter Drucker continue to enjoy such a high reputation? Part of the answer lies in people’s mixed emotions about manage

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问题     Why does Peter Drucker continue to enjoy such a high reputation? Part of the answer lies in people’s mixed emotions about management. The management-advice business is one of the most successful industries of the past century. When Drucker first turned his mind to the subject in the 1940s it was a backwater. Business schools were treated as poor relations by other professional schools. McKinsey had been in the management-consulting business for only a decade and the Boston Consulting Group did not yet exist. Officials at General Motors doubted if Drucker could find a publisher for his great study of the company, "Concept of the Corporation".
    Today the backwater has turned into Niagara Falls. The world’s great business schools have replaced Oxbridge as the nurseries of the global elite. The management-consulting industry will earn revenues of $300 billion this year. Management books regularly top the bestseller lists. Management masters can command $60,000 a speech.
    Yet the practitioners of this great industry continue to suffer from a severe case of status anxiety. This is partly because the management business has always been prey to fads and frauds. But it is also because the respectable end of the business seems to lack what Yorkshire folk call "bottom". Consultants and business-school professors are forever discovering great ideas, like re-engineering, that turn to dust, and wonderful companies, like Enron, that burst into flames.
    Peter Drucker is the perfect antidote to such anxiety. He was a genuine intellectual who, during his early years, rubbed shoulders with the likes of Ludwig Wittgenstein, John Maynard Keynes and Joseph Schumpeter. He illustrated his arguments with examples from medieval history or 18th-century English literature. He remained at the top of his game for more than 60 years, advising generations of bosses and avoiding being trapped by fashion.
    But Drucker was more than just an antidote to status anxiety. He was also a preacher of management. He argued that management is one of the most important engines of human progress: "the organ that converts a mob into an organization and human effort into performance". He endlessly extended management’s empire. From the 1950s onwards he offered advice to Japanese companies as well as American ones. He insisted that good management was just as important for the social sector as the business sector.
By saying "the backwater has turned into Niagara Falls" (Para. 2), the author implies that ________.
选项 A、business schools have mushroomed all around the world
B、the consulting business has made a lot of money
C、management books and masters have multiplied over the time
D、the management-advice business has become successful and popular
答案D
解析 根据题干可直接定位到第二段。先要弄清the backwater这里指的是the management-advice business，Niagara Falls是美国著名的尼亚加拉大瀑布，这里运用暗喻的修辞手法，把管理咨询业的蓬勃发展比喻成了尼亚加拉大瀑布，形容该行业咸鱼翻身的状况。通过该句后面举的例证也可推断出D项是正确答案。A项“商学院在全世界如雨后春笋般出现”是对第一个例证(世界上最好的商学院已成了孕育全球精英的摇篮)的过度引申。B项“咨询业已经赚了很多钱”只是说明其咸鱼翻身状况的第二个例证，即“今年。管理咨询业将赚3000亿美元的收益”。C项“管理学书籍和管理大师们的数量不断倍增”也是对第三、第四个例证(管理学书籍通常占据着畅销书排行榜，而管理大师们一次演讲就能将6万美元收入囊中)的过度引申。
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