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It is a natural marvel. All of the life of the earth dies, all the time, in the same volume as the new life that dazzles us each
It is a natural marvel. All of the life of the earth dies, all the time, in the same volume as the new life that dazzles us each
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2013-10-31
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It is a natural marvel. All of the life of the earth dies, all the time, in the same volume as the new life that dazzles us each morning, each spring.
In our way, we human beings conform as best we can to the rest of nature. The obituary pages tell us of the news that we are dying away, while the birth announcements inform us of our replacement , but we get no grasp from this of the enormity of scale. There are 3 billion of us on the earth, and all 3 billion must be dead, on a schedule, within this lifetime. The vast mortality, involving something over 50 million of us each year, takes place in relative secrecy. We can only really know of the deaths in our households, or among our friends. These, detached in our minds from all the rest, we take to be unnatural events, anomalies, outrages. We streak of our own dead in low voices; struck down, we say, as though visible death can only occur for cause, by disease or violence , avoidably. We send off for flowers, grieve, make ceremonies, scatter bones, unaware of the rest of the 3 billion on the same schedule. All of that immense mass of flesh and bone and consciousness will disappear by absorption into the earth, without recognition by the
transient survivors
.
Less than a half century from now, our replacements will have more than doubled the numbers. It is hard to see how we can continue to keep the secret, with such multitudes doing the dying. We will have to give up the notion that death is catastrophe, or detestable, or avoidable, or e-ven strange. We will need to learn more about the cycling of life in the rest of the system, and about our connection to the process. Everything that comes alive seems to be in trade for something that dies, cell for cell. There might be some comfort in the recognition of synchrony, in the information that we all go down together, in the best of company.
The author advises us to learn about the cycling of life in the rest of the system to______.
选项
A、better understand the enormity of the scale of death
B、watch the rapid population growth
C、see life as death
D、accept death as nothing unusual
答案
D
解析
末段第三句讲到人们要学习更多关于the cycling of life in the rest of the system的知识并弄清our connection to the process。这就是说人们要接受死亡是很正常的事,而并非catastrophe,or detestable,or avoidable,or even strange。
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