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Many of the people who appear most often and most gloriously in history book
Many of the people who appear most often and most gloriously in history book
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2023-07-15
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问题
Many of the people who appear most often and most gloriously in history books are great conquerors and generals and soldiers, whereas the people who really helped civilization forward are often never mentioned at all.
We do not know who first set a broken leg, or launched a seaworthy boat, or calculated the length of the year; but we know all about the killers and destroyers. People think a great deal of them, so much so that on all the highest pillars in the great cities of the world you will find the figure of a conqueror or a general or a soldier. And I think most people believe that the greatest countries are those that have beaten in battle the greatest number of other countries and ruled over them as conquerors.
It is just possible they are, but they are not the most civilized. Animals fight; so do savages; hence to be good at fighting is to be good in the way in which an animal or a savage is good, but it is not to be civilized. Even being good at getting other people to fight for you and telling them how to do it most efficiently—this, after all, is what conquerors and generals have done—is not being civilized. People fight to settle quarrels. Fighting means killing, and civilized people ought to be able to find some way of setting their disputes other than by seeing which side can kill off the greater number of the other side, and then saying that that side which has killed most has won. And not only has it won, but, because it has won, it had been in the right. For that is what going to war means; it means saying that might is right. [br] The author thinks that the conquerors and generals and soldiers ______.
选项
A、only appear glorious in history books
B、are greater than any other people
C、are not as great as depicted in history books
D、do not really help civilization forward
答案
D
解析
推理判断题。本题考查转折处。根据文章开头第1句中whereas形成的对比关系,得知作者认为真正推动文明前进的人常常没被载入史册,由此可推断,载人史册的征服者或将军或战士没能真正起到推动文明前进的作用。选项A中的only过于绝对。选项B和C没有原文根据。
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