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  3. Most of the people who appear most often in glorious history books are great conquerors and generals and soldiers, whereas the p

Most of the people who appear most often in glorious history books are great conquerors and generals and soldiers, whereas the p

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问题       Most of the people who appear most often in glorious history books are great conquerors and generals and soldiers, whereas the people who really helped civilization forward are often never mentioned at all. We do not know who first launched a seaworthy boat, or calculated the length of the year, but we know all about the killers and destroyers. People think a great deal of them, so much so that on all the highest pillars in the great cities of the world you will find the figure of a conqueror’ or a general or a soldier. Furthermore, I think most people believe that the greatest countries are those that have beaten in battle the greatest number of other countries and ruled over them as conquerors. It is just possible they are, but they are not the most civilized.
      Animals fight; so do savages; hence to be good at fighting is to be good in the way in which an animal or a savage is good, but it is not to be civilized. Even being good at getting other people to fight for you and telling them how to do it most efficiently--this, after all, is what conquerors and general have done, is not being civilized. People fight to settle quarrels. Fighting means killing, and civilized peoples ought to be able to find some way of settling their disputes other than by seeing which side can kill off greater number of the other side, and then saying that the side which has killed most has won, not only that it has won, but, because it has won, has been in the right, for. that is what people going to war means; it means saying that might is right.
      This is what the story of mankind has on the whole been like. When our own age has fought the two greatest wars in history, in which millions of people were killed or mutilated. And while today it is true that people do not fight and kill each other in the streets--while, that is to say, we have got to the stage of keeping the rules and behaving properly to each other in daily life--nations and countries have not learnt to do this yet, and still behave like savages.
The author’s attitude to war may be best expressed as ______.
选项 A、very scornful
B、a cold response
C、sternly condemning
D、sharply scolding
答案C
解析 第一段作者认为真正对文明作出贡献的人没有大书特书。第二段指出，人和动物、野蛮之徒没什么两样，都进行打斗，这与文明相去甚远。最后一段指出两次世界大战的残酷性和人们还没有学会正确地与其他国家相处。由此可以看出作者在谴责战争。
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