首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
The sources of anti-Christian feeling were many and complex. On the more intangible side, there was a general pique against the
The sources of anti-Christian feeling were many and complex. On the more intangible side, there was a general pique against the
admin
2009-06-24
57
问题
The sources of anti-Christian feeling were many and complex. On the more intangible side, there was a general pique against the unwanted intrusion of the Western countries; there was an understandable tendency to seek an external scapegoat for internal disorders only tangentially attributable to the West and perhaps most important, there was a virile tradition of ethnocentricism, vented long before against Indian Buddhism, which, since the seventeenth century, focused on Western Christianity. Accordingly, even before the missionary movement really got under way in the mid-nineteenth century, it was already at a disadvantage. After 1860, as missionary activity in the hinterland expanded, it quickly became apparent that in addition to the intangibles, numerous tangible grounds for Chinese hostility abounded.
In part, the very presence of the missionary evoked attack. They were, after all, the first foreigners to leave the treaty ports and venture into the interior, and for a long time they were virtually the only foreigners whose quotidian labors carried them to the farthest reaches of the Chinese empire. For many of the indigenous population, therefore, the missionary stood as a uniquely visible symbol against which opposition to foreign intrusion could be vented.
in part, too, the missionary was attacked because the manner in which he made his presence felt after 1860 seemed almost calculated to offend. By indignantly waging battle against the notion that China was the sole fountainhead of civilization and, more particularly, by his assault on many facets of Chinese culture, the missionary directly undermined the cultural hegemony of the gentry class. Also, in countless ways, he posed a threat to the gentry’s traditional monopoly of social leadership. Missionaries, particularly Catholics, frequently assumed the garb of the Confucian literati. They were the only persons at the local level, aside from the gentry, who were permitted to communicate with the authorities as social equals. And they enjoyed an extraterritorial status in the interior that gave them greater immunity to Chinese law than had ever been possessed by the gentry.
Although it was the avowed policy of the Chinese government after 1860 that the new treaties were to be strictly adhered to, in practice implementation depended on the wholehearted accord of provincial authorities. There is abundant evidence that cooperation was dilatory. At the root of this lay the interactive nature of ruler and ruled.
In a severely understaffed bureaucracy that ruled as much by suasion as by might, the official, almost always a stranger in the locality of his service, depended on the active cooperation of the local gentry class. Energetic attempts to implement treaty provisions concerning missionary activities, in direct defiance of gentry sentiment, ran the risk of alienating this class and destroying future effectiveness.
选项
A、the mere presence of invaders
B、a generalized unfocused feeling
C、the introduction to the West
D、none of the above
答案
A
解析
文章分析的是近代中国人对基督教的反对及其根源。本题属于细节题,答案对应于第一段第二句:On the more intangible side...of the Western countries,其中的intangible对应于题句中的vague,而intrusion则对应于答案项中的invaders。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/8pTd777K
本试题收录于:
公共英语五级笔试题库公共英语(PETS)分类
0
公共英语五级笔试
公共英语(PETS)
相关试题推荐
AstronomersbelievethatmatterindifferentpartsoftheuniverseAttheendofthepassagetheauthorsuggeststhat
Itcanbeinferredfromthefirstparagraphthat______.Whichoffollowingisthewritermostconcernedabout?
Itcanbeinferredfromthefirstparagraphthat______.Theauthor’sattitudetowardswomenhavingacareeris______.
Whatistheliteralmeaningoftheword"television"?Inthelastparagraph,theword"purveyors"couldbestbereplacedbywhi
Accordingtothepassage,whichofthefollowinghaschangedthemostinthelast500years?"Some"inthelastsentenceofthe
Whichofthefollowingdoesthefirstparagraphimply?Theauthordecidedtostayathometolookaftertheirsoneightyearsa
Whydoestheauthormention,’Egypt’smightypyramidbuilders"?Theword"devastating"inthelastparagraphcouldbebestrepl
TheauthorofthepassagecouldnotgotosleeppartlybecauseGladiatorwasthenameof
BritishGovernmentWhenBritishvotersgotothepollsduringGeneralElectionstodecide(51)willgovernthemtheyusuallyhave
随机试题
设正态总体X的方差为1,根据来自总体X的容量为100的简单随机样本测得样本的均值为5,则总体X的数学期望的置信度近似等于0.95的置信区间为________.
无菌技术是医疗护理操作中防止发生________和________的一项重要的基本操作。
患者,痢下赤白黏冻,白多赤少,或纯为白冻,腹痛,里急后重,饮食乏味,中脘饱闷,头身重困,舌质淡,苔白腻,脉濡缓。证属
不应计入人工工资单价的费用是()。
建设工程管理项目的信息资源不包括()。
下列关于房产税纳税人的说法,正确的是()。
以下关于集体合同的说法不正确的是()。
以下哪种角色是教师职业最显著的标志?()
党领导全国各族人民共圆“中国梦”的根本目的是()。
Whendoesthemanthinktheywillleave?
最新回复
(
0
)