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It’s easy to get the sense these days that you’ve stumbled into a party with some powerful drug that dramatically alters identit

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问题     It’s easy to get the sense these days that you’ve stumbled into a party with some powerful drug that dramatically alters identity. The faces are familiar, but the words coming out of them aren’t. Something has happened to a lot of people you used to think you knew. They’ve changed into something like their own opposite.
    There’s Bill Gates, who these days is spending less time earning money than giving it away—and pulling other billionaires into the deep end of global philanthropy(慈善事业) with him. There’s historian Francis Fukuyama, leading a whole gang of disaffected fellow travelers away from neoconservatism. To flip-flopis human. It can still sometimes be a political liability, evidence of a flaky disposition or rank opportunism. But there are circumstances in which not to reverse course seems almost pathological(病态的). He’s a model of consistency, Stephen Colbert said last year of George W. Bush:" He believes the same thing Wednesday that he believed on Monday—no matter what happened on Tuesday".
    Over the past three years, I found people who had pulled a big U-turn in their lives. Often the insight came in a forehead-smiting moment in the middle of the night: I’ve got it all wrong.
    It looked at first like a sprinkling of outliers beyond the curve of normal human experience. But when you stepped back, a pattern emerged. What these personal turns had in common was the apprehension that we’re all connected. Everything leans on something, is both dependent and depended on.
    "The difference between you and me", a visiting Chinese student told University of Michigan psychologist Richard Nisbett not long ago", is that I think the world is a circle, and you think it’s a line". The remark prompted the professor to write a book, The Geography of Thought, about the differences between the Western and the Asian mind.
    To Western thinking, the world is linear; you can chop it up and analyze it, and we can all work on our little part of the project independently until it’s solved. The classically Eastern mind, according to Nisbett, sees things differently: the world isn’t a length of rope but a vast, closed chain, incomprehensibly complex and ever changing. When you look at life from this second perspective, some unlikely connections reveal themselves.
    I realized this was what almost all the U-turns had in common: people had swung around to face East. They had stopped thinking in a line and started thinking in a circle. Morality was looking less like a set of rules and more like a story, one in which they were part of an ensemble cast, no longer the star.
选项 A、Some people have changed into someone another.
B、Rhere are some drugs that can change one’s identity.
C、Some moneybags are pulled to act as philanthropist.
D、francis Fukuyama has become a great traveler.
答案C
解析 为细节理解题。A项没有说清楚是以个人的面容变了，还是语言变了，文中只说了语言的变化，所以A不恰当。文章中的drugs是作者用来表达不解的比喻，所以B项错误。文章虽然出现了"traveler"一词，但是此处是指学术观点上的方向而非真正的旅行，故选D。由第二段第一句话可知C项正确。
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