Theword"eccentric"inthesecondpar

问题：

根据以下材料回答下面的题目：
AcademicMobility
Scholarsandstudentshavealwaysbeengreattravelers."Academicmobility"isnowoftenstatedasafundamentalnecessityforeconomicandsocialprogressintheworld,butitiscertainlynothingnew.Seriousstudentswerealwaysreadytogoabroadinsearchofthemoststimulatingteachersandthemostfamousacademies;insearchofthepurestphilosophy,themosteffectivemedicine,thelikeliestroadtogold.
Mobilityofthiskindmeansalsomobilityofideas,theirtransferenceacrossfrontiers,theirsimultaneousimpactuponmanygroupsofpeople.Thepointoflearningistoshareit,whetherwithstudentsorwithcolleagues;onepresumesthatonlyeccentricshaveaninterestinbeingcreditedwithastartlingdiscovery,oranewtechnique.Itmustalsohavebeenreassuredtoknowthatotherpeopleinotherpartsoftheworldwereabouttomakethesamediscoveryorwerethinkingalongthesamelines,andthatonewasnotquitealone,confrontedbyinquisition,ridiculeorneglect.
Inthetwentiethcentury,andparticularlyinthelasttwentyyears,theoldfootpathsofthewanderingscholarshavebecomevasthighways.Thevehiclewhichhasmadethispossiblehasofcoursebeentheaeroplane,makingcontactbetweenscholarseveninmostdistantplacesimmediatelyfeasible,andprovidingfortheveryrapidtransmissionofknowledge.Apartfromthevehicleitself,itisfairlyeasytoidentifythemainfactorswhichhavebroughtabouttherecentexplosioninacademicmovement.Someofthesearepurelyquantitativeandrequirenofurthermention:therearefarmorecentersofleaming,andafargreaternumberofscholarsandstudents.
Inaddition,onemustrecognizetheveryconsiderablemultiplicationofdisciplines,particularlyinthesciences,whichbywideningthetotalareaofadvancedstudieshasproducedanenormousnumberofspecialistswhoseparticularinterestsalepreciselydefined.Thesepeoplewouldworkinsomeisolationiftheywerenotabletokeepintouchwithsimilarisolatedgroupsinothercountries.

Itcanbeconcludedfromthepassagethat"academicmobility"__________

A.aratherstrangeperson
B.apersonofnoexceptionalability
C.anambitionsperson
D.peculiarorunusual

参考答案：A

参考解析：

【解析】词义推断题，“eccentric”出现的句子和上一句形成对比，通过比较，排除B、C选项，而D选项中的词为形容词，与“eccentric”在句中为名词不符，故确定答案为A。