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Between the eighth and eleventh centuries A.D., the Byzantine Empire staged an almost unparalleled economic and cultural revival
Between the eighth and eleventh centuries A.D., the Byzantine Empire staged an almost unparalleled economic and cultural revival
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2013-10-08
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问题
Between the eighth and eleventh centuries A.D., the Byzantine Empire staged an almost unparalleled economic and cultural revival, a recovery that is all the more striking because it followed a long period of severe internal decline. By the early eighth century, the empire had lost roughly two-thirds of the territory it had possessed in the year 600, and its remaining area was being raided by Arabs and Bulgarians, who at times threatened to take Constantinople and extinguished the empire altogether. The wealth of the state and its subjects was greatly diminished, and artistic and literary production had virtually ceased. By the early eleventh century, however, the empire had regained almost half of its lost possessions, its new frontiers were secure, and its influence extended far beyond its borders. The economy had recovered, the treasury was full, and art and scholarship had advanced.
To consider the Byzantine military, cultural, and economic advances as differentiated aspects of a single phenomenon is reasonable. After all, these three forms of progress have gone together in a number of states and civilizations. Rome under Augustus and fifth century Athens provide the most obviously examples in antiquity. Moreover, an examination of the apparent sequential connections among military, economic, and cultural forms of programs might help explain the dynamics of historical change.
The common explanation of these apparent connections in the case of Byzantium would run like this: when the empire had turned back enemy raids on its own territory and had begun to raid and conquer enemy territory, Byzantine resources naturally expanded and more money became available to patronize art and literature. Therefore, Byzantine military achievements led to economic advances, which in turn led to cultural revival.
No doubt this hypothetical pattern did apply at times during the course of recovery. Yet it is not clear that military advances invariably came first, economic second, and intellectual advances third. In the 860’s the Byzantine Empire began to recover from Arab incursions so that by 872 the military balance with the Abbasid Caliphate had been permanently altered in the empire’s favor. The beginning of the empire’s economic revival,however, can be placed between 810 and 830. Finally, the Byzantine revival of learning appears to have begun even earlier. A number of notable scholars and writers appeared by 788 and, by the last decade of the eighth century, a cultural revival was in full bloom, a revival that lasted until the fall of Constantinople in 1453. Thus the commonly expected order of military revival followed by economic and then by cultural recovery was reversed in Byzantium. In fact, the revival of Byzantine learning may itself have influenced the subsequent economic and military expansion.
Which of the following best states the central idea of the passage?
选项
A、The Byzantine Empire was a unique case in which the usual order of military and economic revival preceding cultural revival was reversed.
B、After 810 Byzantine economic recovery spurred a military and, later, cultural expansion that lasted until 1453.
C、The revival of Byzantine learning is an inexplicable phenomenon, and its economic and military precursors have yet to be discovered.
D、The revival of the Byzantine Empire shows cultural rebirth preceding economic and military revival, the reverse of the commonly accepted order of progress.
答案
D
解析
主旨题。问本文的中心思想,关键在于找主题句,一般位置不是首段或二段首就是末尾,本文在末尾。A“拜占庭帝国是军事、经济、文化复兴逆序出现的唯一例子”错在唯一上;B“810年后经济复苏刺激了军事和文化发展”文章中没有,而且次序也不对;C“文化复兴是不可解释(inexplicable)的现象,其经济、军事的先导(precursors)还有待发现”与作者观点不符,作者认为文化复兴是其他两个的先导。D“文化复兴先于经济和军事复兴,与一般复兴顺序相反”符合,与文章结尾处的主题句“Thus the commonly expected order of military revival followed by economic and then by cultural recovery was reversed in Byzantium.In fact,the revival of Byzantine learning may itself have influenced the subsequent economic and military expansion.”一致。
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