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(1) What we learned about ourselves anew this week was something that, in truth, we knew already. We rediscovered a simple, huma
(1) What we learned about ourselves anew this week was something that, in truth, we knew already. We rediscovered a simple, huma
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2022-06-02
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(1) What we learned about ourselves anew this week was something that, in truth, we knew already. We rediscovered a simple, human weakness: that we cannot conceive of an abstract problem, or even a concrete problem involving huge numbers, except through one individual. The old Stalinist maxim about a million deaths being a statistic, a single death a tragedy, was demonstrated afresh.
(2) The lesson was taught by a silent toddler washed ashore on a beach. Aylan Kurdi did not reveal a new horror. People in desperate search of European refuge have been drowning at sea for many months. The civilians of Syria, including children, have been dying in their hundreds of thousands for more than four years. So we can’t pretend we didn’t know. But somehow, it seems, we needed to see those little shoes and bare legs to absorb the knowledge, to let it penetrate our heads and hearts.
(3) The result has been a collective resolve to do better, a bellowed demand that something be done. Much of the talk has been of governments and quotas and policy changes. But it has not all been about what the government or "Europe" can do. There has been a parallel discussion, one that begins from the ground up, starting with a family, a household, a town. Just as it took the story of one boy to allow us to see the problem, maybe a scale that is small and human offers our best chance of glimpsing the solution.
(4) Witness the impact of the call-out by the Icelandic novelist Bryndis Bjorgvin-sdottir. She did not just write a letter to her country’s welfare minister, demanding a change in policy. She urged her fellow Icelanders to tell their government they were ready to open their doors to refugees, so long as the government opened the borders. Via Facebook she found 11,000 people willing to house Syrians fleeing for their lives. Give them the right papers, she urged, and we are willing to do the rest.
(5) of course, this could never be a whole solution. Action for refugees means not only a welcome when they arrive, but also a remedy for the problem that made them leave. The people now running from Syria have concluded that it is a place where no one can live. They have come to that conclusion slowly, after four years of murderous violence. To make them think again would require an international effort to stop not just the killers of ISIS but also Bashar al-Assad’s barrel bombs.
(6) This is the business of geopolitics at the highest level. For those taking to the seas and risking the razor wire, it’s all too far away. They can’t wait for summits and treaties. They are clinging to their children and clinging to their lives. Urging your local council to find room won’t solve the whole problem, just as taking in the 10,000 Jewish children of the Kindertransport did nothing for the six million Jews who would perish in the Holocaust. But every life matters. As Shale Ahmed says: "You can take local action here, right where you are, and make a change." It’s an echo of an ancient Jewish teaching: whoever saves one life is considered to have saved the whole world.
Why did the death of Ay Ian Kurdi cause so much media attention according to the article?
选项
A、Because it reveals to us the seriousness of the refugee problem in an individual and powerful way.
B、Because it lets us become aware for the first time of the refugees who died tragically.
C、Because it reminds us of all the people who suffered in their own countries and fled.
D、Because it allows us to discover our indifference to others’ tragedy as a human being.
答案
A
解析
细节题。采用排除法,文中说到叙利亚难民问题由来已久,大家早就知道,排除选项B。选项C与文章主题不相关,也排除。选项D也与作者的主要意思相左,我们更容易对单个人的悲剧产生同情,而无感于大批人的痛苦。故选A。
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