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He was a funny looking man with a cheerful face, good natured and a great talker. He was described by his student, the great phi
He was a funny looking man with a cheerful face, good natured and a great talker. He was described by his student, the great phi
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He was a funny looking man with a cheerful face, good natured and a great talker. He was described by his student, the great philosopher Plato, as "the best and most just and wisest man". Yet this same man was condemned (判刑) to death for his beliefs.
The man was the Greek philosopher, Socrates, and he was condemned for not believing in the recognized gods and for corrupting young people. The second charge stemmed from his association with numerous young men who came to Athens from all over the civilized world to study under him.
Socrates’ method of teaching was to ask questions and, by pretending not to know the answers, to press his students into thinking for themselves. His teachings had unsurpassed influence on all the great Greek and Roman schools of philosophy. Yet, despite his fame and influence, Socrates himself never wrote a word.
Socrates encouraged new ideas and free thinking in the young, and this was frightening to the conservative people. They wanted him silenced. Yet, many were probably surprised that he accepted death so readily.
Socrates had the right to ask for a lesser penalty, and he probably could have won over enough of the people who had previously condemned him. But Socrates, as a firm believer in law, reasoned that it was proper to submit to the death sentence. So he calmly accepted his fate and drank a cup of poison in the presence of his grief-stricken friends and students.
The word "unsurpassed" in the third paragraph is closest in meaning to______ ( )
选项
A、untold
B、unequalled
C、unnoticed
D、unexpected
答案
B
解析
根据常识,Socrates“提问”的讲课方式对希腊罗马哲学流派的影响是巨大的、无人能比的。surpass指超过,胜过,unsurpass指无比的,卓越的,出类拔萃的,surpass前加否定前缀并不表示它的否定形式。unequailed也是如此,它表示无人能与之相提并论的,出类拔萃的。
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