Text 1 Utopianism in politics gets a bad

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问题 Text 1 Utopianism in politics gets a bad press.The case against the grand-scale,state-directed kind is well known and overwhelming.Utopia,the perfect society,is unattainable,for there is no such thing.Remaking sociery in pursuit ofan illusion not only fails,it leads swiftly to mass murder and moral ruin.So recent history grimly attests.Although true,that is just half the story.Not all modern Utopians aim to seize the state in order to cudgel the rest of the world back to paradise.Plenty of gentler ones want no more than to withdraw from the mainstream and create their own micro-paradise with a few like-minded idealists.Small experiments in collective living swept America,for example,early in the 19th century and again late in the 20th.Most failed or fell short.None lasted.A11 were laughed at.Yet in this intelligent,sympathetic history,Chris Jennings makes a good case for remembering them well.Politics stultifies,he thinks,when people stop dreaming up alternative ways oflife and putting them to small-scale test.Though with occasional glances forward,Mr.Jennings focuses largely on the 19th century.At least 100 experimental communes sprang up across the young American republic in the mid-1800s.Mr.Jennings writes about five exemplary communities:the devout Shakers,Robert Owen's New Harmony,the Fourierist collective at Brook Farm,Massachusetts,the Icarians at Nauvoo,Illinois,inspired by a French proto-communist,Etienne Cabet,and the Oneida Community in New York state practising"Bible communism"and"complex marriage".The Shakers'founder was a Manchester Quaker,Ann Lee,a devout mother worn out by bearing dead or dying ctuldren.In 1774 she lefi for the New World,determined to forswear sex and create a following to share her belief.An optimistic faith in human betterment,hard work and a reputation for honest Lrading helped the Shakers thrive.At their peak in the early 19th century,they had perhaps 5,000 members scattered in some 20 villages across eight states.They counselled celibacy,to spare women the dangers of child-bearing,made spare,slim furniture,now treasured in museums,and practised a wild,shaking dance that was taken as a sign ofbenign possession by the Holy Spirit."Paradise Now"is more than a record of failed hopes.Some ideas spread to the mainstream.Fourier's feminism is a good example.Fourierist communes foundered across the New World and Old;his ideas about gender equality lived on.No society could improve,Fourier believed,until women's lot improved."The best countries",he wrote,"have always been those which allowed women the most freedom."That is a common thought today.It was radical when Fourier wrote it in I 808.Women more generally are at the centre of the Utopian story.Some communes he writes about were democratic,some authoritarian.None was patriarchal.Mr.Jennings's book is rich in fond hopes and improbable ventures.Rather than nudging readers to mock,which is easy,the author reminds them instead to remember that the maddest-sounding ideas sometimes become motherhood.It can be leamed from Paragraph 4 that Robert Owen______A.is devoutB.is fond ofNew-HarmonyC.is positively practicing group marriageD.is a French proto-communist

选项 A.is devout
B.is fond ofNew-Harmony
C.is positively practicing group marriage
D.is a French proto-communist

答案 B

解析事实细节题。根据定位词定位到文章的第四段，这个段落最大的特点为人名和流派比较多，考生在分析的时候很容易混淆，错误选项很有可能是张冠李戴，这样题设在历年真题中多处有所体现，关键词所对应的句子为Robert Owen's New Harmony（Robert Owen的新和谐公社），而刚好B项有所体现，故B项为正确选项。【干扰排除】A项对应的是the Shakers（震颤派教徒），故排除；C项对应的是the Oneida Community in Ncw York statc（纽约州奥奈达公社）．敞排除；D项对应的是Etienne Cabet，故排除。

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Text 1 Utopianism in politics gets a bad

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