首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
考研
You are going to read a list of headings and a text about history relevant to our daily lives. Choose the most suitable from the
You are going to read a list of headings and a text about history relevant to our daily lives. Choose the most suitable from the
admin
2009-04-26
52
问题
You are going to read a list of headings and a text about history relevant to our daily lives. Choose the most suitable from the list A—F for each numbered paragraph (41—45). The first and last paragraphs of the text are not numbered. There is one extra heading which you do not need to use.
A. Human history contains great stories that can help us appreciate more about past life.
B. The great achievement can provide motivation for learners.
C. Making us more human, more than anything else, is the purpose of studying history.
D. Learning history can lead a more colorful life.
E. History can tell us when we should give up.
F. History can teach us a lesson from its mistakes.
The speaker alleges that studying history is valuable only insofar as it is relevant to our daily lives. I find this allegation to be specious. It wrongly suggests that history is not otherwise instructive and that its relevance to our everyday lives is limited. To the contrary, studying history provides inspiration, innumerable lessons for living, and useful value clarification and perspective—all of which help us decide how to live our lives.
(41)______.
To begin with, learning about great human achievements of the past provides inspiration. For example, a student inspired by the courage and tenacity of history’s great explorers might decide as a result to pursue a career in archeology, oceanography, or astronomy. This decision can, in turn, profoundly affect that student’s everyday life—in school and beyond. Even for students not inclined to pursue these sorts of careers, studying historical examples of courage in the face of adversity can provide motivation to face their own personal fears in life. In short, learning about grand accomplishments of the past can help us get through the everyday business of living, whatever that business might be, by emboldening us and lifting our spirits.
(42)______.
In addition, mistakes of the past can teach us as a society how to avoid repeating those mistakes. For example, history can teach us the inappropriateness of addressing certain social issues, particularly moral ones, on a societal level. Attempts to legislate morality invariably fail, as aptly illustrated by the Prohibition experiment in the U.S. during the 1930s. Hopefully, as a society we can apply this lesson by adopting a more enlightened legislative approach toward such issues as free speech, criminalization of drug use, criminal justice, and equal rights under the law.
(43)______.
Studying human history can also help us understand and appreciate the mores, values, and ideals of past cultures. A heightened awareness of cultural evolution, in turn, helps us formulate informed and reflective values and ideals for ourselves. Based on these values and ideals, students can determine their authentic life path as well as how they should allot their time and interact with others on a day-to-day basis.
(44)______.
Finally, it might be tempting to imply from the speaker’s allegation that studying history has little relevance even for the mundane chores that occupy so much of our time each day, and therefore is of little value. However, from history we learn not to take everyday activities and things for granted. By understanding the history of money and banking we can transform an otherwise routine trip to the bank into an enlightened experience, or a visit to the grocery store into an homage to the many inventors, scientists, engineers, and entrepreneurs of the past who have made such convenience possible today. And, we can fully appreciate our freedom to go about our daffy lives largely as we choose only by understanding our political heritage. In short, appreciating history can serve to elevate our everyday chores to richer, more interesting, and more enjoyable experiences.
(45)______.
In sum, the speaker fails to recognize that in all our activities and decisions—from our grandest to our most rote—history can inspire, inform, guide, and nurture. In the final analysis, to study history is to gain the capacity to be more human—and I would be hard-pressed to imagine a worthier end.
选项
答案
F
解析
本段从历史上的错误能给我们一些教训,以避免犯同样的错误这个角度出发论证了作者的观点,F项是对本段内容的高度概括。
转载请注明原文地址:https://jikaoti.com/ti/FsjRFFFM
0
考研英语一
相关试题推荐
StudythefollowingdrawingcarefullyandWriteanessayinwhichyoushould:1)describethedrawing,2)interpretthemeaning
Thesentence"Aftereachrainshower,anotherInternetmillionairesprangup"(Paragraph1)means______.Wecanlearnfromthe
Theword"this"(Paragraph1)probablyrefersto______.Itisimpliedthatthemainimpactthatgenetransferbetweencropsan
ThewriterwarnsAmericansthat______.By"commonresources"(Paragraph2),theauthormeansthat______.
ThemajordifferencebetweennarrativesalesandsuggestivesalesisthatAccordingtoAlan,creativityinsalespeople______.
Bysayingthatacountry’sagriculturalsurplusesoften"complicate"itseconomy,theauthormeans______.Whydogovernmentss
Bysayingthatacountry’sagriculturalsurplusesoften"complicate"itseconomy,theauthormeans______.Itcanbeinferredt
Excitement,fatigue,andanxietycanallbedetectedfromsomeone’sblinks,accordingtopsychologistJohnStern(21)Washington
Theauthorbelievesinthepassagethat______.AllofthefollowingarestepsinvolvedintruecloningEXCEPT______.
随机试题
试述辛亥革命的历史意义。
Heearnsquiteahigh______inhispresentjob.
《炉中煤》的思想感情是()
企业之间具有下列的情形中,属于企业所得税特别纳税调整的关联关系的有()。
下列业务中,仅产生所有者权益内部结构调整的有()。
(2006年真题)与图书编辑相比,音像编辑在进行选题定位时,还要注意考虑()等问题。
为促进学生形成良好的思想品德,某年级开展了“每月之星”的评比活动,通过综合评价一个月内每一位学生的日常行为表现,选出表现好、进步大的学生作为当月的小明星,并将照片贴在“明星墙”上以示奖励。这种德育方法属于()。
MercedesestatecarsandFiatrunaroundsarebeingusedtotestupto22differentmonitorsdesignedtodetectifadriverisfa
下列给定程序的功能是调用fun函数建立班级通信录。通信录中记录每位学生的编号、姓名和电话号码。班级人数和学生信息从键盘读入,每个人的信息作为一个数据块写到名为myfile5.dat的二进制文件中。请在程序的下画线处填入正确的内容并将下画线删除,使
某二叉树共有7个节点,其中叶子节点只有1个,则该二叉树的深度为()。
最新回复
(
0
)