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People who question or even look down on the study of the past and its works usually assume that the past is entirely different

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问题     People who question or even look down on the study of the past and its works usually assume that the past is entirely different from the present, and that hence we can learn nothing worthwhile from the past. But it is not true that the past is entirely different from the present. We can learn much of value from its similarity and its difference.
    A tremendous change in the conditions of human life and in our knowledge and control of the natural world has taken place since ancient times. The ancients could not, however, see in advance our contemporary technical and social environment, and hence have no advice to offer us about the particular problems facing us. But, although social and economic arrangements vary with time and place, man still remains man. We and the ancients share a common human nature and hence certain common human experiences and problems.
    The poets bear witness that ancient man, too, saw the sun rise and set, felt the wind on his cheek, was possessed by love and desire, experienced joy and excitement as well as frustration and disappointment, and knew good and evil. The ancient poets speak across the centuries to us, sometimes more directly and vividly than our contemporary writers. And the ancient prophets and philosophers, in dealing with the basic problems of men living together in society, still have something to say to us.
    We also learn from the past by considering the respects in which it differs from the present. We can discover where we are today and what we have become by knowing what the people of the past did and thought. And part of the past—our personal past and that of the race—always lives in us.
According to the writer, our past can teach us quite a lot because______.
选项 A、it is very different from the present
B、it is quite the same as the present
C、we can draw many lessons from it
D、we are not working so hard as the people in the past
答案C
解析 细节题。从文中第一段可知，那些质疑甚至轻视对过去及先人的作品研究的人们通常主观地认为，过去与现在是完全不同的，因而臆断出人们无法从过去获取任何有价值的东西。但是事实并非如此，过去与现在并非完全不同。从两者的相似及差异之处我们可以借鉴许多有价值的地方。据此可知，我们的过去能教给我们不少东西，因为我们可以从过去汲取许多经验教训，所以正确答案是C。
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