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The young people who talk of the village as being "dead" are talking nothing
The young people who talk of the village as being "dead" are talking nothing
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2024-01-15
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The young people who talk of the village as being "dead" are talking nothing but nonsense, as in their hearts they must surely know.
No, the village is not dead. There is more life in it now than there ever was. But it seems that "village life" is dead. Gone forever. It began to decline(衰落) about a hundred years ago, when many girls left home to go into service in town many miles away, and men also left home in increasing number in search of a work, and home was where work was. There are still a number of people alive today who can remember what "village life" meant in the early years of the present century. It meant knowing and being known by everybody else in the village. It meant finding your entertainment in the village of within walking distance of it. It meant housewives tied to the home all day and every day. It meant going to bed early to save lamp-oil and coal.
Then came the First World War and the Second World War. After each war, new ideas, new attitudes, new trades and occupations were revealed to villagers. The long-established order of society was no longer taken for granted. Electricity and the motorcar were steadily operating to make "village life" and "town life" almost alike. Now with the highly developed science and technology and high-level social welfare for all, there is no point whatever in talking any longer about "village life". It is just life, and that a better life.
Finally, if we have any doubts about the future, or about the many changes, which we have seen in our lives, we have only to look in at the school playground any mid-morning; or see the children as they walk homeward in little groups. Obviously these children are better fed, better clothed, better educated, healthier, prettier and happier than any generation of children that ever before walked the village street.
选项
A、those young people who talk of the village as being "dead" are wrong
B、the two statements are against each other
C、village life today is rather uninteresting
D、village life today is no longer like what it is used to be
答案
D
解析
答案依据全文大意。文章一开始即指出:乡村本身并没有消亡,随后描述乡村生活在本世纪初和两次世界大战后的不同说明乡村生活的变迁,可见作者说village is not dead,but village life is dead"乡村并没有消亡,而是乡村生活消亡了",是为了说明今天乡村生活的内涵已经发生了改变,故D正确。
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