首页
登录
职称英语
Read the following passage carefully and then paraphrase the numbered and underl
Read the following passage carefully and then paraphrase the numbered and underl
游客
2025-04-09
30
管理
问题
Read the following passage carefully and then paraphrase the numbered and underlined parts.("Paraphrase" means "to explain the meaning in your own English".)(75%)
America Loses a Great Public Thinker
Arthur Miller’s death last week meant more than the loss of an outstanding playwright. It was the loss of a great public thinker who believed strongly that the essence of America—its greatness was in its promises.【P1】
Miller knew what ignorance and fear and the madness of crowds, especially when exploited by sinister leadership, could do to those promises.
【P2】
His greatest concerns, "were with the moral corruption brought on by bending one’s ideals to society’s dictates, buying into the values of a group when they conflict with the voice of personal conscience.
"【P3】
The individual in Miller’s view, had an abiding moral responsibility for his or her own behavior, and for the behavior of society as a whole.
He said that "I felt that as improbable as it might seem, there were moments when an individual conscience was all that could keep a world from falling."
Miller saw some of the differences in two sharply defined eras: the Depression-wracked 1930s and the prosperous postwar 1950s. It was perhaps around 1936, people who used to mind no polities began thinking for the first time of common action as a way out of their impossible conditions.【P4】
By the early ’ 50s the agony of the Depression was gone. McCarthvism was in flower.
After the 50s, however, Americans became more practical and pragmatic. The dean of the University of Michigan was complaining that his students’ highest goal was to fit in with corporate America rather than to separate truth from falsehood.【P5】
"They become experts at grade-getting, but there’s less speculating about the wrongs of the world and ideal solutions something no employer was interested in."
Now Miller is gone, and if we are not wise enough to pay attention, his uncomfortable truths will die with him. [br] 【P3】
选项
答案
Miller held the idea that the moral of individual influences not only his or her own behavior, but also that of the society.
解析
转载请注明原文地址:https://tihaiku.com/zcyy/4033988.html
相关试题推荐
Obviouslytheseareallfactorsaffectingsmoothoperation,buttheunderlyingp
WhichofthefollowingcriticismsisoftenmadeoftheSapir-WhorfHypothesis?A、
Whichofthefollowingaspectsisthefocusofthefourthparagraph?A、Qualityco
Thepassageismainlyabout______.A、theproceduresforindustrialproductionB、
Whichofthefollowingistrueofdistanceeducation?A、Themajorityofthestude
Whichofthefollowingquestionsdoesthepassageseektoanswer?A、Whyisdistan
Directions:Doyouagreeordisagreewiththefollowingstatement?Peoplenever
Studythepictureasfollowing,andwriteanessayofabout200words.Youressay
ReadthefollowingpassagecarefullyandthenexplaininyourownEnglishtheex
ReadthefollowingpassagecarefullyandthenexplaininyourownEnglishtheex
随机试题
Accordingtotheadvertisement,______(孩子们的年龄应该在5到10岁之间).thechildren’sagesra
______referstoawayofshorteningalongerwordintoashorterform.A、Borrowin
脑卒中危险因素中最主要的是()A.冠心病 B.糖尿病 C.颈动脉硬化
简述智育的任务。
()是指视觉系统分辨最小物体或物体细节的能力。 A.视角B.视敏度 C.
假如今后通货膨胀率维持在3%,40岁的李先生如果想要在65岁时拥有相当于现在2
经典性条件反射说的提出者是()。A.斯金纳 B.巴甫洛夫 C.华生 D.
药材茎呈圆柱形,表面淡紫色或紫色,有纵条纹的是A.益母草 B.淫羊藿 C.花
患者,男性,16岁。冠折,已行根管治疗。该患者拟采用全冠修复,修复方法为()
环形开挖预留核心土法中,核心土的主要作用是()。A.防止地表沉降 B.支
最新回复
(
0
)