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Most of the people who appear most often and most gloriously in the history books are great conquerors and generals and soldiers

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问题     Most of the people who appear most often and most gloriously in the 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【C1】______of the year, or manured a field; but we know【C2】______about the killers and destroyers. People think a great deal of them, so【C3】______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【C4】______that have beaten in battle the greatest number of other countries and ruled over them as conquerors. It is just possible they are, 【C5】______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【C6】______an animal or a savage is good, but it is not to be civilized. Even being good at getting other people to fight for you and【C7】______them how to do it most efficiently — this, after all, is【C8】______conquerors and generals have done — is not being civilized. People fight to settle quarrels. Fighting means killing, and civilized peoples ought to be able to find some way of settling their disputes other【C9】______by seeing which side can kill off the greater number of other side, and then【C10】______that that side which has killed most has won.
【C1】
选项 A、number
B、length
C、depth
D、width
答案B
解析 length of the year意思为“一年的天数(时间长度)”；其他选项意思与语境不相符合。
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