首页
登录
职称英语
Michelle Dockery, the actress who plays Lady Mary Crawley in Downton Abbey,
Michelle Dockery, the actress who plays Lady Mary Crawley in Downton Abbey,
游客
2025-03-27
16
管理
问题
Michelle Dockery, the actress who plays Lady Mary Crawley in Downton Abbey, says manners have disappeared in modern Britain.
"Those old manners," she says, "such as men standing when women arrive at the dinner table or opening doors for you—are lovely, and it’s lovely when you see a man doing that. But young men wouldn’t think about that for a second because it’s not the culture anymore."
She puts it down to the rise of sexual equality, which I suppose might play a small part in the collapse of manners. But the loss of noble qualities is a minor element in a much bigger story. Over the last 50 years, the British have changed from one of the politest nations to one of the rudest.
Luckily for us, the old-fashioned image persists abroad of us as a bowler-hat-wearing race, obsessed with tea and cricket. Those misconceptions are swiftly cured by a visit to one of the pedestrianised fighting areas in any provincial town centre on a Saturday evening at the closing time of a pub.
Of course, the image was always a slight myth. The British have always drunk heavily, and sworn even more. But they used to have a double persona—the heavy drinking, swearing one, which would be replaced by the polite persona immediately when good manners were required.
That idea of public shame has disappeared, and is now even condemned as pretentious. Self-righteousness has taken its place—it’s OK to play a DVD at top volume in a train carriage/wear a luminous green vest at a funeral, because the offender thinks it’s OK. The only driving factor in these decisions is desire for your own pleasure rather than the desire to minimize the pain of others.
This selfish behavior is much more natural than the selflessness implied in manners. If we were brought up in the wild, we’d all behave like this. Manners are taught. And that’s the big reason why they’ve collapsed over here—and— survived much better in other countries. They’re not taught much here anymore by parents, on television or by public figures.
In his latest book on litter, Theodore Dalrymple explains why the British litter these days—because they haven’t been socialized properly. Dr. Dalrymple and most of his generation—don’t litter, he writes, because their mothers told them not to. It’s the same with the modern collapse of manners. [br] Unlike Michelle Dockery, the author believes that the collapse of manners in Britain______.
选项
A、is due to the improved social status of women
B、has nothing to do with noble qualities
C、has more significant causes than Dockery suggests
D、has never happened in daily life and work
答案
C
解析
在第三段,Michelle Dockery认为传统的礼貌举止丧失的原因是两性平等了,但作者使用了play a small part in the collapse of manners和is a minorelement in a much bigger story等语言,说明两性平等只是个微不足道的原因。
转载请注明原文地址:https://tihaiku.com/zcyy/4014126.html
相关试题推荐
Theactresslivesinaveryfashionable______oftown.(厦门大学2014年试题)A、positionB
Thefamousactresswasimposedheavy______fornon-paymentoftaxes.A、disreputeB
Theactresslivesinaveryfashionable______oftown.A、positionB、componentC、qu
Theactresslivesinaveryfashionable______oftown.A、positionB、componentC、qu
MichelleDockery,theactresswhoplaysLadyMaryCrawleyinDowntonAbbey,
MichelleDockery,theactresswhoplaysLadyMaryCrawleyinDowntonAbbey,
MichelleDockery,theactresswhoplaysLadyMaryCrawleyinDowntonAbbey,
MichelleDockery,theactresswhoplaysLadyMaryCrawleyinDowntonAbbey,
MichelleDockery,theactresswhoplaysLadyMaryCrawleyinDowntonAbbey,
MichelleDockery,theactresswhoplaysLadyMaryCrawleyinDowntonAbbey,
随机试题
John’sremarkswere______annoyhisoldparentsathisbirthdayparty.A、soasto
Increasinglyoverthepasttenyears,thegeneralpopulation(andespecially
在短波通信中,频率常用兆赫为单位。()
外加剂性能检测用基准水泥必须由经中国建材联合会混凝土外加剂分会与有关单位共同确认
某工业企业2012年有关资料如下:2012年全年主营业务收入200万元;1、2季
关于进制表示正确的叙述是( )。A.十进制数可用l0个数码.分别是1~10
根据以下资料,回答下列问题。 2010年1~6月,全国电信业务收入总量累计完
下列各项中,不符合内部牵制的要求的是()。A、出纳人员管票据 B、出纳人员
中药炮制理论形成时期是( ) A.汉代 B.唐代 C.宋代 D.明代
在骨骼疾病的诊断酶学中下列哪项最有价值?()A.LDH B.ALP C.A
最新回复
(
0
)