【本期赛题】如果问学者专家或开明人士:“一个人最重要的能力是什么?”最常得到的答案十之八九往往是:“独立思考。”但如果再进一步问,什么是独立思考?怎么样才能独立思考?那可就很难说得清楚了。(选自《作文与考试》2014年33期《用自己的脑袋想事情》)思美国著名思想家爱默生曾说:“思考是行为的种子”。有了思考才会有新的发现,才能够突破前人,才会有理性的升华,才会有 If you ask scholarly experts or enlightened people: “What is the most important ability of a person?” The most commonly found answer is often: “Independent thinking.” But if you go further Ask, what is independent thinking? How can we think independently? That is hard to say clearly. (From Compositions and Examinations, Vol. 2014, No. 33, “Thinking in Your Own Head.”) Emerson, a famous thinker in the United States, once said: “Thinking is the seed of action.” Only with new discoveries will we be able to break through our predecessors and have rational sublimation before we have