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  3. Jill Ker Conway, president of Smith, echoes the prevailing view of contemporary technology when she says that " anyone in today’

Jill Ker Conway, president of Smith, echoes the prevailing view of contemporary technology when she says that " anyone in today’

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问题     Jill Ker Conway, president of Smith, echoes the prevailing view of contemporary technology when she says that " anyone in today’s world who doesn’t understand data processing is not educated. "But she insists that the increasing emphasis on these matters leave certain gaps. Says she: " The very strongly utilitarian emphasis in education, which is an effect of man-made satellites and the cold war, has really removed from this culture something that was very profound in its 18th and 19th century roots, which was a sense that literacy and learning were ends in themselves for a democratic republic. "
    In contrast to Plato’s claim for the social value of education, a quite different idea of intellectual purposes was advocated by the Renaissance humanists. Overjoyed with their rediscovery of the classical learning that was thought to have disappeared during the Dark Ages, they argued that the imparting of knowledge needs no justification—religious, social, economic, or political. Its purpose, to the extent that it has one, is to pass on from generation to generation the corpus of knowledge that constitutes civilization. " What could man acquire, by virtuous striving, that is more valuable than knowledge?" asked Erasmus, perhaps the greatest scholar of the early 16th century. That idea has acquired a tradition of its own. "The educational process has no end beyond itself, " said John Dewey. "It is its own end. "
    But what exactly is the corpus of knowledge to be passed on? In simpler times, it was all included in the medieval universities’ Quadrivium ( arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, music ) and Trivium(grammar, rhetoric, logic). As recently as the last century, when less than 5% of Americans went to college at all, students in New England establishments were compelled mainly to memorizeand recite various Latin texts, and crusty professors angrily opposed the introduction of any new scientific discoveries or modern European languages. "They felt, " said regretfully Charles Francis Adams, Jr. , the Union Pacific Railroad president who devoted his later years to writing history, "that a classical education was the important distinction between a man who had been to college and a man who had not been to college, and that anything that diminished the importance of this distinction was essentially revolutionary and tended to anarchy. "
It can be inferred that Charles Francis Adams, Jr.
选项 A、devoted his later years to classical education.
B、was an advocate of education in history.
C、was an opponent to classical education.
D、regretted diminishing the importance of the distinction.
答案C
解析 该题为细节加推理题。根据第三段第四句“…Charles Francis Adams，Jr．…devoted his later years to writing history…”我们知道，小查尔斯·弗兰西斯·亚当斯在晚年致力于历史写作，故A项错误；根据第三段第四句“…Charles Francis Adams，Jr．，the Union Pacific Railroad president who devoted his later years to writing history…”我们知道，小查尔斯·弗兰西斯·亚当斯是太平洋铁路联盟的主席，在晚年时期致力于历史写作，由此我们可以推断出他之所以谈论到教育问题，只是将其作为其历史写作的一部分，这并不能说明他是历史上的教育倡导者，故不选择B项；根据第三段第四句中“‘They felt，’said regretfully Charles Francis Adams，Jr．，…‘that a classical education was the important distinction between a man who had been to college and a man who had notbeento college，andthatanythingthatdiminishedtheimportance of this distinction was essentially revolutionary and tended to anarchy．”’我们知道，小查尔斯·弗兰西斯·亚当斯遗憾地说道：“他们认为古典教育是区别一个人有没有受过大学教育的重要标 准，而且还认为对这个标准的抹杀从根本上来说都是在制造革命，并且很可能陷入混乱。”因此，我们可以判断出小查尔斯-弗兰西斯·亚当斯对古典教育持反对观点，故选择C项；根据C项的分析，我们知道小查尔斯·弗兰西斯·亚当斯对上世纪大学教授认为古典教育是区别一个人有没有受过大学教育的重要标准的观点表示遗憾，而非对区别标准的抹杀表示遗憾，故D项错误。
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