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(1) What we learned about ourselves anew this week was something that, in truth, we knew already. We rediscovered a simple, huma
(1) What we learned about ourselves anew this week was something that, in truth, we knew already. We rediscovered a simple, huma
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2022-06-02
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(1) What we learned about ourselves anew this week was something that, in truth, we knew already. We rediscovered a simple, human weakness: that we cannot conceive of an abstract problem, or even a concrete problem involving huge numbers, except through one individual. The old Stalinist maxim about a million deaths being a statistic, a single death a tragedy, was demonstrated afresh.
(2) The lesson was taught by a silent toddler washed ashore on a beach. Aylan Kurdi did not reveal a new horror. People in desperate search of European refuge have been drowning at sea for many months. The civilians of Syria, including children, have been dying in their hundreds of thousands for more than four years. So we can’t pretend we didn’t know. But somehow, it seems, we needed to see those little shoes and bare legs to absorb the knowledge, to let it penetrate our heads and hearts.
(3) The result has been a collective resolve to do better, a bellowed demand that something be done. Much of the talk has been of governments and quotas and policy changes. But it has not all been about what the government or "Europe" can do. There has been a parallel discussion, one that begins from the ground up, starting with a family, a household, a town. Just as it took the story of one boy to allow us to see the problem, maybe a scale that is small and human offers our best chance of glimpsing the solution.
(4) Witness the impact of the call-out by the Icelandic novelist Bryndis Bjorgvin-sdottir. She did not just write a letter to her country’s welfare minister, demanding a change in policy. She urged her fellow Icelanders to tell their government they were ready to open their doors to refugees, so long as the government opened the borders. Via Facebook she found 11,000 people willing to house Syrians fleeing for their lives. Give them the right papers, she urged, and we are willing to do the rest.
(5) of course, this could never be a whole solution. Action for refugees means not only a welcome when they arrive, but also a remedy for the problem that made them leave. The people now running from Syria have concluded that it is a place where no one can live. They have come to that conclusion slowly, after four years of murderous violence. To make them think again would require an international effort to stop not just the killers of ISIS but also Bashar al-Assad’s barrel bombs.
(6) This is the business of geopolitics at the highest level. For those taking to the seas and risking the razor wire, it’s all too far away. They can’t wait for summits and treaties. They are clinging to their children and clinging to their lives. Urging your local council to find room won’t solve the whole problem, just as taking in the 10,000 Jewish children of the Kindertransport did nothing for the six million Jews who would perish in the Holocaust. But every life matters. As Shale Ahmed says: "You can take local action here, right where you are, and make a change." It’s an echo of an ancient Jewish teaching: whoever saves one life is considered to have saved the whole world.
What is the author’s opinion towards the refugee issue?
选项
A、Disappointed by the governments’ reactions.
B、Doubtful about the usefulness of small scale individual help efforts.
C、Optimistic that a whole solution is achievable through summits and treaties.
D、Believing that the more life saved the better it will be regardless of the approaches.
答案
D
解析
态度题。作者在文章开头、中间和结尾都亮出观点,即每一个生命都值得救助,不管是通过国际组织、政府机构还是民间。故选D。
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