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Many of the people who appear most often and most gloriously in history books are great conquerors and generals and soldiers, wh

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问题     Many of the people who appear most often and most gloriously in 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 set a broken leg, or 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. And 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 generals have done—is not being civilized. People fight to settle quarrels. Fighting means killing, and civilized people ought to be able to find some way of setting their disputes other than by seeing which side can kill off the greater number of the other side, and then saying that that side which has killed most has won. And not only has it won, but, because it has won, it had been in the right. For that is what going to war means; it means saying that might is right.
As is indicated in the passage, the figure of a conqueror or a general or a soldier is put on the highest pillars in the great cities of the world mainly because ______.
选项 A、people respect them very much
B、they fought bravely to protect their cities
C、people think they fought too brutally
D、they conquered many cities and countries
答案A
解析 事实细节题。本题考查复合句的理解。文中的第2段第2句的“People think a great deal of them，somuch so that”是一个结果状语从句，主句是原因，从句是结果，由此可推出答案应为A，选项A是原句主句的近义替换。其他选项均无原文依据，纯属主观臆断。
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