Lateral thinking, first described by Edward de Bono in 1967, is just a few years older than Edward’s son. You might imagine that Caspar was raised to be an adventurous thinker, but the de Bono name was so famous, Caspar’s 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. 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 Bono decided to write his latest book, "Teach Your Child How to Think", in which he transforms the thinking skills he developed for brain-storming 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 it an uphill battle, trying to teach them to think "You know," Edward de Bono 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.
According to Paragraph 3, which of the following statements expresses Edward de Bono’s view

A:Everybody knows that children aren’t very logical. B:It is an uphill battle trying to teach children to think. C:We often think ineffectively because we take too limited a view. D:Thinking is traditionally regarded as something executed in a logical sequenc

We should start (at once) and not waste (too) much time (to argue) (about) the procedure.（　）

A:at once B:too C:to argue D:about

Just as too much harmony is tiresome in music ______. ( )

A:the life of too many benefits annoys us B:so, in life, too many benefits annoy us C:we are annoyed with lives also of too many benefits D:much benefits annoy us in life

Just as too much harmony is tiresome in music ______. ( )

A:the life of too many benefits annoys us B:so, in life, too many benefits annoy us C:we are annoyed with lives also of too many benefits D:much benefits annoy us in life

We are so used to our life on the surface of the earth that it can be quite an effort for our mind to break free of all the ideas that we take for granted. Because we can feel that things are heavy, we think of "weight" as being a fixed quality in an object, but it is not really fixed at all. If you could take a one-pound packet of butter 4,000 miles out from the earth, it would weigh only a quarter of a pound.
Why would things weigh only a quarter as much as they do at the surface of the earth if we took them 4,000 miles out into space The reason is this: All objects have a natural attraction for all other objects; this is called gravitational attraction. But this power of attraction between two objects gets weaker as they get farther apart. When the butter was at the surface of the earth, it was 4,000 miles from the center. When we took the butter 4,000 miles out, it was 8,000 from the center, which is twice the distance. If you double the distance between two objects, their gravitational attraction decreases four times (two times two). If you treble the distance, it gets nine times weaker (three times three) and so on.
So this is one of the first things we need to remember: that the weight of an object in space is not the same as its weight on the surface of the earth.
What about the weight of our pound of butter on the surface of the moon At the distance the pull of the earth is about 4,000 times smaller than it is here on the surface, so we can forget all about the earth-pull on our butter.
On the other hand, on the moon there will be an attraction between the butter and the moon, but the butter will weigh only about one-sixth as much as it does on the earth. This is because the moon is so much smaller than the earth. The amount of gravitational pull that a body produces depends on the amount of material in it. A packet of butter has a gravitational pull of its own; but this is very small in relation to the pull of something as large as the moon, or the earth, or the sun.

A:it demands too great an effort for us to do so B:we are too familiar with the way things are to question the ideas C:we have proved that those ideas are correct D:we are so sure of ourselves that we never doubt anything on the earth

We find it hard to break free from ideas connected with living on the earth because

A:it demands too great an effort for us to do so. B:we are too familiar with the way things are to question the ideas. C:we have proved that those ideas are correct. D:we are so sure of ourselves that we never doubt anything on the earth.