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It is perhaps, no accident that many of the outstanding figures of the past were amazingly versatile men. Right up until compara
It is perhaps, no accident that many of the outstanding figures of the past were amazingly versatile men. Right up until compara
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2014-01-13
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It is perhaps, no accident that many of the outstanding figures of the past were amazingly versatile men. Right up until comparatively recent times, it was possible for an intelligent person to acquaint himself with almost every branch of knowledge. Thus, a man of genius like Leonardo da Vinci engaged in many careers at once as a matter of course. Da Vinci was so busy with his numerous inventions that he barely found the time to complete his paintings. He came very near to fulfilling the Renaissance ideal of the "universal man" , the man who was proficient at everything. Today, we rarely, if ever, hear that a musician has just invented a new type of submarine.
Knowledge has become divided and sub-divided into countless, narrowly-defined compartments. The specialist is respected; the versatile person, far from being admired, is more often regarded with suspicion. The modern world is a world of highly-skilled "experts" who have had to devote the greater part of their lives to a very limited field of study in order to compete with their fellows. But this has not been achieved without considerable cost. The scientist, who outside his own particular subject is little more than a moron, is a modern phenomenon; as is the man of letters who is barely aware of the tremendous strides that have been made in technology. Similarly, specialization has indirectly affected quite ordinary people in every walk of life. Many activities which were once pursued for their own sakes, are often given up in despair; they require techniques, the experts tell us, which take a life-time to master. Why learn to play the piano, when you can listen to the world’s greatest pianists in your own drawing-room?
Little by little, we are becoming more and more isolated from each other. It is almost impossible to talk to your neighbor about his job, even if he is engaged in roughly the same work as you are. The Royal Society in Britain includes among its members only the most eminent scientists in the country. Yet it is highly disturbing to find that even here, as one of its members put it, at a lecture only 10% of the members can understand 50% of what is being said!
The passage implies that______.
选项
A、men of remarkable achievements in the past were accidentally versatile
B、no great man in the past was qualified as universal except da Vinci
C、nowadays versatile men are generally highly regarded
D、nowadays it is nearly impossible for a man to be versatile
答案
D
解析
细节推理题。原文首段尾句中的rarely与选项D中的nearly impossible对应,现在博学精通的人很少。故答案为D。
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