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This time last year three out of four 16 to 24-year-olds were wearing the white band of Make Poverty History. Whatever the campa
This time last year three out of four 16 to 24-year-olds were wearing the white band of Make Poverty History. Whatever the campa
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2015-12-23
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This time last year three out of four 16 to 24-year-olds were wearing the white band of Make Poverty History. Whatever the campaign may or may not have achieved in Africa, it briefly inspired millions in Britain. A joy, but also a revelation, for this was the moment when I saw how ready people were to take a little bit of action for a big cause. It may also explain how the small movement I helped to found has become a rather large phenomenon. Don’t think changing the world can start by something as simple as shutting down your computer at night?
Those marching were different crowds from 20 years ago. Make Poverty History made few formal demands. No slogans, no forms, not even meetings if you didn’t fancy them. It was activism lite—more a brand than an organization. Show solidarity wherever you go—fashionably of course—do more, if and when you can. The future of active citizenship may depend on understanding why it ignited a generation.
If social engagement is a funnel(a tube or pipe that is wide at the top and narrow at the bottom)turned on its side, about a quarter of a million people in the UK are at the narrow end, serial activists, responsible for 80 per cent of our community action. Most charities are here, focusing their efforts on these committed citizens. Our organization, We Are What We Do, is
at the mouth of the funnel
, targeted at people who don’t recycle or think about fair trade. It is styled as a brand, inspiring people to make the small changes that will make a big difference if enough of us do the same.
Our first book—Change the World for a Fiver—featured 50 simple actions, from not spitting out your gum to declining plastic bags. All began by doing something small. Some of the 800 who are buying the book every day remain usefully but lightly engaged. For our new book, Change the World 9 to 5, we decided to focus on the workplace, where most of us spend most of our waking hours. Actions range from the entertaining(smile!); the symbolic(turn off your phone charger when not in use)and the serious(learn to save a life).
In working with We Are What We Do I have moved from the view that the sum of individual actions can help to make a difference to the belief that ultimately it is the only thing that ever does. The smallest act has a value of its own.
Which of the following statements is true according to the text?
选项
A、The British are all ready to take a little action for a big cause.
B、Campaigns nowadays are more formal than those in the past.
C、The author’s second book has a higher aim than the first one.
D、No matter how small, an individual’s changes really matter.
答案
D
解析
推理判断题。文章通篇都强调了D项所表达的观点。A项中的all太过绝对化;B项“现在的活动比过去更正式”与文意相悖,可由第二段内容推理出来;C项讲book的内容在第四段,但“在第二本书中,作者设立了比前一本更高的目标”未提及,原文仅对两本书的内容进行介绍,并无对比。
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考研英语一
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