首页
登录
职称英语
We continue to share with our remotest ancestors the most tangled and evasive
We continue to share with our remotest ancestors the most tangled and evasive
游客
2024-06-28
10
管理
问题
We continue to share with our remotest ancestors the most tangled and evasive attitudes about death, despite the great distance we have come in understanding some of the profound aspects of biology. We have as much distaste for talking about personal death as for thinking about it; it is an indelicacy, like talking in mixed company about venereal disease or abortion in the old days. Death on a grand scale does not bother us in the same special way: we can sit around a dinner table and discuss war, involving 60 billion volatilized human deaths, as though we were talking about bad weather; we can watch abrupt bloody death every day, in color, on films and television, without blinking back a tear. It is when the numbers of dead are very small, and very close, that we begin to think in scurrying circles. At the very center of the problem is the naked cold deadness of one’s own self, the only reality in nature of which we can have absolute certainty, and it is unmentionable, unthinkable. We may be even less willing to face the issue at first hand than our predecessors because of a secret new hope that maybe it will go away. We like to think, hiding the thought, that with all the marvelous ways in which we seem now to lead nature around by the nose, perhaps we can avoid the central problem if we just become, next year, say, a bit smarter.
People dislike talking about death because they just (46) still have the vaguest ideas of the issue. They talk about death only when (47) people are killed in war. When they find only very few people die each time and (48) are almost equal, they become very anxious, thinking that next time they themselves will meet their doom. Therefore, (49) However, they have a hope that when they control nature, they can (50) .
选项
答案
like their predecessors
解析
转载请注明原文地址:https://tihaiku.com/zcyy/3653401.html
相关试题推荐
Wecontinuetosharewithourremotestancestorsthemosttangledandevasive
Wecontinuetosharewithourremotestancestorsthemosttangledandevasive
Hepreferredtocontinuehiswork______restonhisachievements.A、morethanB、le
Asthepaceoflifecontinuestoincrease,wearefastlosingtheartofrel
Asthepaceoflifecontinuestoincrease,wearefastlosingtheartofrel
Asthepaceoflifecontinuestoincrease,wearefastlosingtheartofrel
Asthepaceoflifecontinuestoincrease,wearefastlosingtheartofrel
Asthepaceoflifecontinuestoincrease,wearefastlosingtheartofrel
Asthepaceoflifecontinuestoincrease,wearefastlosingtheartofrel
Asthepaceoflifecontinuestoincrease,wearefastlosingtheartofrel
随机试题
Ishouldliketorentahouse,modern,comfortableand______inaquietneighborh
群体行为学派最早的研究活动开始于()。A.铁锹试验 B.霍桑试验 C.搬铁
教师在教授《闻王昌龄左迁龙标遥有此寄》时,提到这是一首七言绝句,请学生课外搜集其
A.肾B.心C.脾D.肺E.肝被称为"生血之源"的脏是
患者女,48岁。行乳癌根治术后第二天,宜取的体位是A、半卧位 B、端坐位 C
2012年全国国道网车流量较大的地区主要集中在北京、天津、上海、江苏、浙江、广东
在钻孔内做波速测试,测得中等风化花岗石,岩体的压缩波速度vp=2777m/s,剪
保护装置灵敏系数为().(与低压分支线相配合单相接地保护灵敏系数)a
下列调试试验中,属于铁路信号系统道岔单项调试试验内容的是()。A.残压试验
记账凭证账务处理程序是直接根据记账凭证逐笔登记总分类账,是最基本的账务处理程序。
最新回复
(
0
)