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  3. Is it possible to persuade mankind to live without war? War is an ancient institution which has existed for at least six thousa

Is it possible to persuade mankind to live without war? War is an ancient institution which has existed for at least six thousa

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问题     Is it possible to persuade mankind to live without war? War is an ancient institution which has existed  for at least six thousand years. It was ’always bad and usually foolish, but in the past the human race managed to live with it. Modem ingenuity has changed this. Either Man will abolish war, or war will abolish  Man. For the present, it is nuclear weapons that cause the most serious danger, but bacteriological (细菌学的) or chemical weapons may, before long, offer an even greater threat. If we succeed in abolishing  nuclear weapons, our work will not be done. It will never be done until we have succeeded in abolishing  war. To do this, we need to persuade mankind to look upon international questions in a new way, not as contests of force, in which the victory goes to the side which is most skillful in killing people, but by arbitration in accordance with agreed principles of law. It is not easy to change very old mental habits, but this is what must be attempted.
    There are those who say that the adoption of this or that ideology would prevent war. I believe this to be a big error. All ideologies are based upon dogmatic(教条的) statements which are, at best, doubtful, and at worst, totally false. Their adherents believe in them so fanatically(狂热的) that they are willing to go to war in support of them.
    The movement of world opinion during the past few years has been very largely such as we can welcome.  It has become a commonplace that nuclear war must be avoided. Of course very difficult problems remain in the world, but the spirit in which they are being approached is a better one than it was some years ago. It has begun to be thought, even by the powerful men who decide whether we shall live or die, that negotiations should reach agreements even if both sides do not find these agreements wholly satisfactory.  It has begun to be understood that the important conflict nowadays is not between different countries, but between Man and the atom bomb.
It can be implied from the passage that war is at present______.
选项 A、as necessary as in the past
B、as bad as in the past
C、worse than in the past
D、not so dangerous as in the past
答案C
解析 推理判断题。从文章首段前部分内容可知：战争已存在了几千年，它过去一直被人们认为是愚蠢的，但那时人类能和它并存。现代社会改变厂这一点，要么是人类废除战争，要么是战争毁灭人类。由此可推断出，现在的战争与过去相比更具毁灭性。
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