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As the political consequences of Nazism and the liberal tone of the postwar world proved inhospitable to Darwinist thinki

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问题             As the political consequences of Nazism and the liberal tone of the postwar
       world proved inhospitable to Darwinist thinking, so the disintegration of the
       postwar order, the end of traditional leftwing politics, a growing social
Line    conservatism and disillusionment with the idea of social progress has led to its
(5)     return. As anthropologist Foley expounded, the history of the twentieth
       century has transformed our vision of humanity, leading to a loss of confidence
       in the notion that humans may be raised on a taxonomical pedestal above the
       swamp of animal brutishness. In deriding any social explanation of human
       behavior, and implying that emotions are biologically shaped, hence universal,
(10)    scientists have come to odds with cultural anthropologists, who ridicule any
       biological interpretation of human behavior and view humans in strictly cultural
       terms.
            There is convincing evidence that the anthropologists are correct, for even
       something as fundamental as an emotion is far more than simply an evolutionary
(15)    trait, given that only some emotions—anger, disgust, sadness, enjoyment and
       fear—are known to be universal, while others, such as jealousy and envy, vary
       in their expression and are arguably not emotions at all. Even emotions known
       to be universal cannot be regarded as simply "natural", given that the evocation
       of a particular emotion is both culturally and historically specific. The
(20)    connotation of anger or sadness and the elicitors of these emotions may vary
       across cultures and throughout human history. There are also culturally bound
       "display rules", often unconscious, which dictate the means or time of
       displaying emotion. For instance, Japanese and American students are privately
       shown very similar emotions in response to similar stimuli, but their public
(25)    expressions are far from identical, a fact that may owe to the Japanese cultural
       tendency of remaining demure in public expression.
           Even more contentious is the question of what emotions animals possess, of
       whether they are aware of such emotions, and of the relationship between
       animal responses and human emotions. The way of responding to these debates
(30)    depends as much upon one’s philosophical inclinations as on the facts: scientists
       philosophically disposed to minimize the gap between humans and animals are
       more likely to perceive animals as having emotions, as being aware of them,
       while those anthropologists who seek an unbridgeable gap between humanity
       and lower life forms are likely to see appreciable differences between human
(35)    emotions and animal responses. Thus, the scientific idea of the human is not
       simply an objective truth, but shaped by wider issues such as the prevailing
       ideas of progress, notions of racial difference, and the comprehension of the
       relationship between Man and Nature. All that may safely be concluded is that
       what constitutes a human is not only innate, but also nurtured.
The author of the passage is primarily concerned with
选项 A、refuting the notion that emotions are socially constructed
B、delineating the difference between relative and universal behavior
C、describing how anthropologists identify emotions in foreign cultures
D、measuring the extent to which emotions can be equated with evolutionary traits
E、comparing how emotions are expressed in various cultures
答案D
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