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Last week I had lunch with a man who used to be one of the most senior bankers in the UK. The trouble with business today, he co

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问题     Last week I had lunch with a man who used to be one of the most senior bankers in the UK. The trouble with business today, he complained over coffee, was that there was no common sense any more. Such sense, he insisted, had always been uncommon—but now was extinct.
    The reason common sense is squashed in this way is insecurity. Most people in business live in fear of being found out, and sounding clever seems a safer bet than being understood. As more people try to sound clever, the standard gets tougher, and before long formerly sensible people start talking absolute rot. Recently I read an interview with a senior manager at Amazon in which he explained the secret to his hiring success: "Your bar raiser should also run the debrief after every hiring loop."
    The next enemy of common sense is self-importance, which not only makes business people lose the plot at work, but at home too. On LinkedIn the other day a former chief operating officer of eBay boasted that he was so busy he bought a house without even looking at it properly, and that his wife once delivered clean underwear to the office after he had worked all night. A five-year old could have told him that this is no way to live, and that if you are caught without clean underpants, or end up buying a house having hardly looked at it, it is better to keep quiet.
    Human weakness is not the only destroyer of common sense; the corporate machine does so equally powerfully. Departments such as HR and PR routinely eliminate any lurking pools of rationality, while interdepartmental rivalries, budgets and regulations of any kind all tend to ensure that few things are ever done sensibly.
    The only way of safeguarding common sense in business is to grow your own, and become an entrepreneur. A couple of months ago I helped judge a competition for new businesses. One of the winners made charging points for electric cars; another had developed a sort of Netflix for magazines. Both were good ideas, with good business plans and founders who spoke lucidly about what they were doing. I don’t know if either will succeed. But I do know that if they do, their good sense will be under attack.
The common sense is squashed because______.
选项 A、the common sense has been extinct
B、most people in business lack security
C、most people in business want to be smarter
D、the interview is becoming increasingly stricter
答案B
解析 细节题。根据题干关键词定位到第二段第一句：The reason common sense is squashed in this way is insecurity．(常识以这种方式被碾碎，原因在于人们没有安全感。)故B项“企业中的大多数人缺乏安全感”符合题意，为正确答案。其中lack security是对insecurity的同义替换。A项“常识已经消失了”，C项“企业中的大多数人想更加聪明”，D项“面试正在变得越来越严格”，均不符合题意。
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