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UTOPIANISM in politics gets a bad press. The case against the grand-scale, state-directed kind is well known and overwhelming. U

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问题     UTOPIANISM in politics gets a bad press. The case against the grand-scale, state-directed kind is well known and overwhelming. Utopia, the perfect society, is unattainable, for there is no such thing. Remaking society in pursuit of an illusion not only fails, it leads swiftly to mass murder and moral ruin. So recent history grimly attests.
    Although true, that is just half the story. Not all modern Utopians aim to seize the state in order to cudgel the rest of the world back to paradise. Plenty of gentler ones want no more than to withdraw from the mainstream and create their own micro-paradise with a few like-minded idealists. Small experiments in collective living swept America, for example, early in the 19th century and again late in the 20th.
    Most failed or fell short. None lasted. All were laughed at. Yet in this intelligent, sympathetic history, Chris Jennings makes a good case for remembering them well. Politics stagnates, he thinks, when people stop dreaming up alternative ways of life and putting them to small-scale test.
    Though with occasional glances forward, Mr. Jennings focuses largely on the 19th century. At least 100 experimental communes sprang up across the young American republic in the mid-1800s. Mr. Jennings writes about five exemplary communities: the devout Shakers, Robert Owen’s New Harmony, the Fourierist collective at Brook Farm, Massachusetts, the Icarians at Nauvoo, Illinois, inspired by a French proto-communist, Etienne Cabet, and the Oneida Community in New York state practising "Bible communism" and "complex marriage".
    The Shakers’ founder was a Manchester Quaker, Ann Lee, a devout mother worn out by bearing dead or dying children. In 1774 she left for the New World, determined to forswear sex and create a following to share her belief. An optimistic faith in human betterment, hard work and a reputation for honest trading helped the Shakers thrive. At their peak in the early 19th century, they had perhaps 5,000 members scattered in some 20 villages across eight states. They counselled celibacy to spare women the dangers of child-bearing, made spare, slim furniture, now treasured in museums, and practised a wild, shaking dance that was taken as a sign of benign possession by the Holy Spirit.
By saying "Although true, that is just half the story"(Para. 2), the author means that________.
选项 A、the story of UTOPIANISM is incomplete
B、there are some other Utopians who have different views towards UTOPIANISM
C、UTOPIANISM is just an illusion
D、the pursuit of UTOPIANISM is dangerous
答案B
解析 含义题。根据题干关键词定位到文章第二段。Although true，that is just half the story，位于该段段首，具有承上启下的作用，即承接第一段的信息，连接第二段的内容。A项意为“乌托邦主义故事不完整”。其仅仅是对half the story的字面理解，忽略了深层含义，故错误。C项“乌托邦主义仪仅是幻觉”和D项“追求乌托邦主义是危险的”都是第一段中的信息，虽然正确，但并不是that is just half the story包含的内容，均错误。总结第二段可知，很多温和派乌托邦主义者“只希望退隐俗世，和一群志同道合者建造一个属于自己的微型天堂”，由此可知，他们对乌托邦主义有自己的理解。故本题选B。
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