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One of the silliest things in our recent history was the use of "Victorian" as a term of contempt or abuse. It had been made fas
One of the silliest things in our recent history was the use of "Victorian" as a term of contempt or abuse. It had been made fas
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One of the silliest things in our recent history was the use of "Victorian" as a term of contempt or abuse. It had been made fashionable by Lytton Strachey with his clever, superficial and ultimately empty book Eminent Victorians, in which he damned with faint praise such Victorian heroes as General Gordon and Florence Nightingale. Strachey’s demolition job was clever because it ridiculed the Victorians for exactly those qualities on which they prided themselves — their high mindedness, their marked moral intensity, their desire to improve the human condition and their confidence that they had done so.
Yet one saw, even before the 100th anniversary of the death of Queen Victoria this year, that there were signs these sneering attitudes were beginning to change. Programmes on radio and television about Victoria and the age that was named after her managed to humble themselves only about half the time. People were beginning to realize that there was something heroic about that epoch and, perhaps, to fear that the Victorian age was the last age of greatness for this country.
Now a new book, What The Victorians Did For Us, aims further to redress the balance and remind us that, in most essentials, our own age is really an extension of what the Victorians created. You can start with the list of Victorian inventions. They were great lovers of gadgets from the smallest domestic ones to new ways of propelling ships throughout the far-flung Empire. In medicine, anaesthesia (developed both here and in America) allowed surgeons much greater time in which to operate — and hence to work on the inner organs of the body — not to mention reducing the level of pain and fear of patients. To the Victorians we also owe lawn tennis, a nationwide football association under the modern rules, powered funfair rides, and theatres offering mass entertainment. And, of course, the modern seaside is almost entirely a Victorian invention. There is, of course, a darker side to the Victorian period. Everyone knows about it mostly because the Victorians catalogued it themselves. Henry Mayhew’s wonderful set of volumes on the lives of the London poor, and official reports on prostitution, on the workhouses and on child labour — reports and their statistics that were used by Marx when he wrote Das Kapital — testify to the social conscience that was at the center of "Victorian values".
But now, surely, we can appreciate the Victorian achievement for what it was — the creation of the modern world. And when we compare the age of Tennyson and Darwin, of John Henry Newman and Carlyle, with our own, the only sensible reaction is one of humility: "We are our father’s shadows cast at noon".
What’s the author’s attitude towards the Victorian Age?
选项
A、Approval.
B、Sarcastic.
C、Indifferent.
D、Hostile.
答案
A
解析
观点态度题。纵观全文,文章开篇便反驳了近代历史上对维多利亚时代的错误观点;后又通过分析和论证(如列举了维多利亚时代的一些发明),证明了维多利亚时代是一个伟大的时代;文中最后又重申观点,指出维多利亚时代创造了现代世界。由此看出,作者对维多利亚时代的态度是“认可的、赞同的”,故[A]正确。[B]“讽刺的”、[C]“漠不关心的,中立的”、[D]“敌对的”均不正确。
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