首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
As the Titanic was sinking and women and children climbed into lifeboats, the musicians from the ship’s band stood and played. T
As the Titanic was sinking and women and children climbed into lifeboats, the musicians from the ship’s band stood and played. T
admin
2021-04-29
28
问题
As the Titanic was sinking and women and children climbed into lifeboats, the musicians from the ship’s band stood and played. They died when the ship went down. Men stood on the deck and smoked cigarettes. They died, too. This behavior is puzzling to economists, who like to believe that people tend to act in their own self-interest. "There was no pushing," says David Savage, an economist at Queensland University in Australia who has studied witness reports from the survivors. It was "very, very orderly behavior."
Savage has compared the behavior of the passengers on the Titanic with those on the Lusitania, another ship that also sank at about the same time. But when the Lusitania went down, the passengers panicked. There were a lot of similarities between these two events. These two ships were both luxury ones, they had a similar number of passengers and a similar number of survivors.
The biggest difference, Savage concludes, was time. The Lusitania sank in less than 20 minutes. But for the Titanic, it was two-and-a-half hours. "If you’ve got an event that lasts two-and-a-half hours, social order will take over and everybody will behave in a social manner,"Savage says. "If you’re going down in under 17 minutes, basically it’s instinctual." On the Titanic, social order ruled, and it was women and children first. On the Lusitania, instinct won out. The survivors were largely the people who could swim and get into the lifeboats.
"Yes, we’re self-interested," Savage says. But we’re also part of a society. Given time, social norms can beat our natural self-interest. A hundred years ago, women and children always went first. Men were stoic. On the Titanic, there was enough time for these norms to become forceful.
The expression "won out" in the third paragraph is closest in meaning to "_________".
选项
A、took the upper hand
B、went out of control
C、ran wild
D、shut down
答案
A
解析
根据文章第三段最后一句可知,在路西塔尼亚号上,大部分幸存者是那些会游泳并且能够逃到救生艇上的人们。这与泰坦尼克号上的情况形成了鲜明的对比,在泰坦尼克号上,社会秩序战胜了本能,而在路西塔尼亚号上本能战胜了社会秩序。因此选择took the upper hand占上风,胜出,故选A。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/iQtO777K
0
成人本科学位英语
相关试题推荐
Whenyou()thisoverwithher,youshouldnotseeheranymore.
Wefindthatbrightchildrenarerarelyheldbackbymixed-abilityteaching.Onthecontrary,boththeirknowledgeandexperienc
CanyouimaginehowyouwouldfeelifyoufelldangerouslyillandcouldnotreachorCalladoctor?Millionsofpeople【C1】_____
Theanimals,highlysensitivetopollution,can______monitorsofwaterquality.
Itisestimatedthatthedisease______bypollutedwaterwillkill1outofevery100children.
Manychildrenchose"AnimalWorld"astheir______TVprogramme.
Climatechangewillgreatly______wheatandriceproductionifnationsdon’ttakestepsnow.
MostwomeninGhana—theeducatedandilliterate,theurbanandrural,theyoungandold—worktoearnanincomeinadditiontoma
这本书给我许多关于如何改善我们生活的好建议。
某学校中有10个教学班级,每个班的学生人数如下:32,34,36,36,36,42,44,44,44,48。(1)求以上数据的平均数、中位数和众数。(2)现有一批学生需要加人班级,每个班的学生人数在原来的基础上增加了2人,求班级中学生人数的平均数、中位
随机试题
事业单位会计核算内容决定它的结账基础采用收付实现制。()
A.最常见于胭窝B.因关节囊或腱鞘结缔组织发生黏液变性和液化所致C.关节滑膜细胞瘤样反应性增生,与局部损伤性出血有关D.起源于腱鞘滑膜组织,主要由组织细胞样滑膜细胞及由此融合的多核巨细胞组成E.成于成骨性肉芽组织骨痂
若该患者固定义齿戴用二年后基牙出现疼痛,最可能的原因与下述哪一项无关
根据我国《合同法》的规定,合同履行的原则包括()。
下列说法正确的是()。
违反国家有关规定使用、骗取财政资金的行为包括()。
关于商业折扣的处理,下列表述不正确的有()。
营业账簿税目中记载资金账簿缴纳印花税的计税依据为()两项合计金额。
下面对《史记》和《汉书》的表述,错误的一项是()
我国行政管理改革的具体内容包括()。
最新回复
(
0
)