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Custom has not been commonly regarded as a subject of any great moment. The inner workings of our own Brains we feel to be uniqu
Custom has not been commonly regarded as a subject of any great moment. The inner workings of our own Brains we feel to be uniqu
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2005-11-28
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Custom has not been commonly regarded as a subject of any great moment. The inner workings of our own Brains we feel to be uniquely worthy of investigation, but custom, we have a way of thinking, is behavior at its most commonplace. As a matter of fact, it is the other way around. Traditional custom, taken the world over, is a mass of detailed behavior more astonishing than what any one person can ever evolve in individual actions, no matter how unusual. Yet that is a rather trivial aspect of the matter. The fact of first-rate importance is the predominant role that custom plays in experience and in belief, and the very great varieties it may manifest.
No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions and ways of thinking. Even in his philosophical probing he cannot go behind these stereotypes; his very concepts of the true and the false will still have reference to his particular traditional customs. John Dewey has said in all seriousness that the part played by custom in shaping the behavior of the individual as over against any way in which he can affect traditional custom, is as the proportion of the total vocabulary of his mother tongue over against those words of his own baby talk that are taken up into the common language of his family. When on seriously studies the social orders that have had the opportunity to develop autonomously, the figure becomes no more than an exact and matter-of-fact observation. The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community. From the moment of his birth the customs into which he is born shape his experience and behavior. By the time he can talk, he is the little creature of his culture, and by the time he is grown and able to take part in its activities, its habits are his habits, its beliefs his beliefs, its impossibilities his impossibilities. Every child that is born into his group will share them with him, and no child born into one on the opposite side of the globe can ever achieve the thousandth part. There is no social problem. It is more obligatory upon us to understand than this of the role of custom. Until we are intelligent as to its laws and varieties, the main complicating facts of human life must remain unintelligible.
From John Dewey we can infer that______.
选项
A、custom plays an important role in shaping the behavior of an individual
B、the behavior of an individual is not influenced by customs
C、the words of one’s baby talk take a great proportion in the vocabulary of one’s mother tongue
D、all the vocabulary of one’s mother tongue originates from one’s baby talk
答案
A
解析
本题可参照第二段中的第三句话“Even in his philosophical probing he cannot go behind these stereotypes;his very concepts of the true and the false will still have reference to his particular traditional customs.”根据John Dewey的观点,我们可以推断出习俗对一个人行为的形成起着重要作用。因此A项为正确答案。
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