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(1) The Canterbury Tales, written by Geoffrey Chaucer in the late 14th Century, tells the story of a group of medieval pilgrims
(1) The Canterbury Tales, written by Geoffrey Chaucer in the late 14th Century, tells the story of a group of medieval pilgrims
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2023-01-09
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(1) The Canterbury Tales, written by Geoffrey Chaucer in the late 14th Century, tells the story of a group of medieval pilgrims travelling from London to Canterbury. Six hundred years later, the Star Wars movies were filmed on the same thoroughfare. This road is Watling Street—and
there is no road in the English-speaking world more steeped in stories
.
(2) We now think of Watling Street as the A2 and the A5 motorways, which run diagonally across Britain from Anglesey in north-west Wales to Dover in south-east England. But the road has existed throughout all of British history. It is one of the few permanent fixtures of this island and one of the first lines on the map. It has been a Neolithic pathway, a Roman road, one of the four medieval royal highways, a turnpike in the age of coach travel and the traffic-choked "A road" of today. It is a palimpsest, always being rewritten.
(3) Watling Street’s origins are lost in the mists of prehistory, but it seems to already have been ancient when the Romans straightened and paved the stretch between Dover to Wroxeter. Even at the beginning, the road was entwined with stories: It was said that the route had been built by King Belinus, a mythical figure related to the pagan sun god Belenus. Today, the road also runs alongside Elstree Studios, on the outskirts of London, where thousands of movies and television series have been shot over the last 100 years.
(4) For many years it was believed that William Shakespeare wrote a play called The Widow of Watling Street; it was included in early collections of his work. It is now thought that the real author of that play was Thomas Middleton. But Shakespeare can still be connected to the road. Before the Romans bridged the Thames, the original route of Watling Street forded the river where Westminster Palace now stands. The route would have run close to where Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in Southwark later stood.
(5) In 1922 the French philosopher Pierre Teilhard de Chardin coined the term "noosphere", which refers to the realm of immaterial things. The noosphere is the place where you’ll find all our stories, as well as our laws, culture and philosophy. The word arises from the biosphere, the realm of all living things. The biosphere, in turn, emerges from the geosphere, which is the solid physical world. De Chardin recognised that the world of myths, legends and stories are ultimately rooted in specific parts of the material world. They emerge from place just as much as they emerge from imagination.
(6) In the 21st Century, the noosphere has been referred to as "ideaspace", a term coined by the English comics writer Alan Moore and his mentor Steve Moore. Alan and Steve Moore both spent their lives living close to Watling Street, and the road appears in the work of both. As they see it, each of us has our own private estate in ideaspace, where our private thoughts and dreams can be found. But other parts of ideaspace are shared and public, and it is in these communal areas that widely known characters, stories and legends reside.
(7) For the Moores, a walk across a landscape was as much a walk through the fiction, histories and associations of the area as it was a walk across the physical, material world. Seen through their eyes, a road as old as Watling Street—which is still used by hundreds of thousands of people every day—is essentially a machine designed to accumulate story upon story.
(8) Not long after the M6 Toll road opened in 2003, a family driving along it saw what they first thought were animals. Drawing nearer, they came to believe that they were looking at the ghosts of about 20 Roman soldiers. When the M6 Toll opened, the building supplies company Tarmac Group announced that its surface was made out of asphalt, tarmac and "two and a half million pulped Mills & Boon novels". Those Roman ghosts were not just wading through the physical accumulation of centuries, but the immaterial accumulation as well: The road is literally built out of stories. Populist, throwaway stories, admittedly—but then, romance is always the best genre to build roads from.
Who regarded the ancient road both as a kind of physical existence and immaterial accumulation?
选项
A、William Shakespeare.
B、Thomas Middleton.
C、Pierre Teilhard de Chardin.
D、Alan and Steve Moore.
答案
D
解析
细节题。原文第六段中详细介绍了艾伦和史蒂夫关于思想空间的观点和看法。第七段首句则明确提到,对于他们而言,在山水间漫步既是在物质世界中漫步,也是徜徉于小说、历史和有关这个区域的联想中。随后提到,他们认为这条大道既是实际上每个人要通行的路,也是汇聚故事的地方,可见他们将这条路既看作是物质存在,也看作是非物质的积累,因此D为答案。第四段第三句只是提到莎士比亚可能与惠特灵大道有关联,但并没有说莎士比亚对这条古老道路的看法,故排除A;作者在第四段第二句说明《惠特灵大道上的寡妇》这部作品实际是托马斯.米德尔顿所著,但没有说他对这条路的看法,故排除B;第五段详细介绍了夏尔丹的“人类圈”思想,说明了神话、传说等精神世界的东西与物质世界的联系,但是也没有提到他对这条大道有什么看法,故排除C。
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