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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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2025-01-07
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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] When the author reflects on the "linked interdependence of attack and defense," he suggests that
选项
A、their origin preceded life.
B、their development is precipitated by one another.
C、their existence is dependent on human aggression.
D、their escalation cannot be halted.
答案
B
解析
试题问当作者说到"linked interdependence of attack and defense"时,他想表示什么?A说“进攻与防御的相互依赖”关系早于生命起源。这显然不对,因为第三段中说在生命产生前没有战争和杀戮。C说它们的存在是依赖于人类的侵略性。这在文章中没有明显证据。D说它们的升级无法停止。这似乎与首句“The arms race that has darkened our century with fear and peril may finally be slowing"有些矛盾。B说进攻与防御的发展是相互促进的。这在第一、二段中都有所指:From hand weapons and shields to ballistic missiles and Star Wars,offensive and defensive armaments have co-evolved./...escalation in deterrence by mutually assured destruction.上面两句,都表明进攻武器与防御武器的发展是相互依存的。
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