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阅读下列短文,从每篇短文后所给各题的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出最佳选项。

  Many of the people who appear most often and most gloriously in history books are great conquerors and generals and soldiers, whereas the people who really helped civilization forward are often never mentioned at all.

  We do not know who first set a broken leg, or launched a seaworthy boat, or calculated the length of the year; but we know all about the killers and destroyers.People think a great deal of them, so much so that on all the highest pillars in the great cities of the world you will find the figure of a conqueror or a general or a soldier.And I think most people believe that the greatest countries are those that have beaten in battle the greatest number of other countries and ruled over them as conquerors.

  It is just possible they are, but they are not the most civilized.Animals fight; so do savages; hence to be good at fighting is to be good in the way in which an animal or a savage(野人) is good, but it is not to be civilized.Even being good at getting other people to fight for you and telling them how to do it most efficiently-this, after all, is what conquerors and generals have done-is not being civilized.People fight to settle quarrels.Fighting means killing, and civilized people ought to be able to find some way of setting their disputes other than by seeing which side can kill off the greater number of the other side, and then saying that that side which has killed most has won.And not only has it won, but because it has won, it had been in the right.For that is what going to war means; it means saying that might(权利) is right.

(1)

The author thinks that the conquerors and generals and soldiers ________.

[  ]

A.

only appear glorious in history books

B.

are greater than any other people

C.

are not as great as described in history books

D.

do not really help civilization forward

(2)

As it is indicated in the passage, the figure of a conqueror or a general or a soldier is put on the highest pillars in the great cities of the world mainly because ________.

[  ]

A.

people respect them very much

B.

they fought bravely to protect their cities

C.

people think they fought too brutally(野蛮地)

D.

they conquered many cities and countries

(3)

What is the writer's attitude towards the countries that ruled over a large number of other countries ?

[  ]

A.

Positive.

B.

Critical.

C.

Ironic.

D.

Respectful.

(4)

The author says that civilized people________.

[  ]

A.

should not have any quarrels to settle

B.

should not fight when there are no quarrels to settle

C.

should settle their quarrels without fighting

D.

should settle their quarrels by killing the other side

答案:1.D;2.A;3.B;4.C;
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