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The arms race that has darkened our century with fear and peril may finally b
The arms race that has darkened our century with fear and peril may finally b
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2023-12-19
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The arms race that has darkened our century with fear and peril may finally be slowing. Weapons have been with us a long time. From personal combat at the very beginning of history to the impersonality of modern warfare, there has been a dynamic escalation in the complexity and specialization of attack and defense. From hand weapons and shields to ballistic missiles and Star Wars, offensive and defensive armaments have co-evolved.
While arms races have been with us for millennia, nothing compares to the wasteful absorption of human talents and the costs in lives, talents, resources, and energy of the past 50 years of war, pseudowar and escalation in deterrence by mutually assured destruction. This has been the killing century.
But as we reflect on the linked interdependence of attack and defense in our century, we need to remember that life on Earth has been involved in a biological arms race for hundreds of millions of years. Compared with that ancient process, the military arms race is but a blink in the eye of history. For a very brief period before the killing started billions of years ago, there was "innocence." At life’s beginning the very first prot-organisms, formed in the "primordial soup," obtained their energy from inorganic sources .... Once living things existed, however, some became food sources for others. Life came to eat life, and attack and defense originated on Earth. [br] In this passage the author apparently intends to
选项
A、write a fictionalized account of evolution.
B、be scientifically precise.
C、raise philosophical issues.
D、convince readers that war is inevitable.
答案
C
解析
试题问作者写这篇文章的目的。这道题不太好选择,从四个选项看,A说是写一篇有关进化的小说。这不正确,因为文章的语言不像小说语言。B说作者想做到科学般的精确。事实上,文章中许多时间方面的叙述都用了类似"hundreds of millions of years;billions of years ago"等语言,应该说并不很精确。D说作者想通过此文告诉读者战争不可避免,文章重点讲了武器竞赛,但没有因此明确认为战争是不可避免的。运用排除法,C很可能是正确的。文章一开始讲了武器自古就有,进攻防御伴生,由此引出进一步的评论,即从生命开始,就有为生存而杀戮,这样生与死的问题就存在了,很自然,下文作者很可能会进一步阐述生与死这样的大问题。相比而言,C是最好选择。
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