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When imaginative men turn their eyes towards space and wonder whether life e
When imaginative men turn their eyes towards space and wonder whether life e
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2025-03-23
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When imaginative men turn their eyes towards space and wonder whether life exists in any part of it, they may cheer themselves by remembering that life need not resemble closely the life that exists on Earth. Mars looks like the only planet where life like ours could exist, and even this is doubtful. But there may be other kinds of life based on other kinds of chemistry, and they may multiply on Venus or Jupiter. At least we cannot prove at present that they do not.
Even more interesting is the possibility that life on their planets may be in a more advanced stage of evolution. Present-day man is in a peculiar and probably temporary stage. His individual units retain a strong sense of personality. They are, in fact, still capable under favorable circumstances of leading individual lives. But man’s societies are already sufficiently developed to have enormously more power and effectiveness than the individuals have.
It is not likely that this transitional situation will continue very long on the evolutionary time scale. Fifty thousand years from now man’s societies may have become so close-knit that the individuals retain no sense of separate personality. Then little distinction will remain between the organic parts of the multiple organism and the inorganic parts (machines) that have been constructed by it. A million years further on man and his machines may have merged as closely as the muscles of the human body and the nerve cells that set them in motion.
The explorers of space should be prepared for some such situation. If they arrive on a foreign planet that has reached an advanced stage (and this is by no means impossible), they may find it being inhabited by a single large organism composed of many closely cooperating units.
The units may be "secondary"—machines created millions of years ago by a previous form of life and given the will and ability to survive and reproduce. They may be built entirely of metals and other durable (耐用的) materials. If this is the case, they may be much more tolerant of their environment, multiplying under conditions that would destroy immediately any organism made of carbon compounds and dependent on the familiar carbon cycle.
Such creatures might be relics of a past age, many millions of years ago, when their planet was favorable to the origin of life, or they might be immigrants from a favored planet. [br] It seems that the writer______.
选项
A、is interested in the imaginary life forms
B、is eager to find a different form of life
C、is certain of the existence of a new life form
D、is critical of the imaginative people
答案
A
解析
综合理解题。此题需要在理解全文的基础上来得出答案。从整篇文章看,作者在讨论想象中的外星生命。A意为:“对想象的生命形式感兴趣”,所以A是正确答案。B意为:“热衷于发现不同的生命形式”;C意为:“确信现在存在一种新的生命形式”;D意为:“对那些异想天开的人持批评态度。”B、C和D均不符合文章的意思。
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