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
Whose Grave Is This Anyway? There are many legends about the world famous Egyptian Pharaohs’ tombs, which have lain silent f
Whose Grave Is This Anyway? There are many legends about the world famous Egyptian Pharaohs’ tombs, which have lain silent f
admin
2012-01-14
101
问题
Whose Grave Is This Anyway?
There are many legends about the world famous Egyptian Pharaohs’ tombs, which have lain silent for thousands of years along the Nero River. In reality though, this silence has constantly been disturbed by a great variety of people. While considering their different motivations in doing so, we must examine whether disturbing the ancient tombs is justifiable or worthy of condemnation.
(A) [■] When Howard Carter and his party opened the tomb of the Egyptian king Tutankhamen in 1922, there was rejoicing around the world.
(B) [■] The tomb was largely intact and not seriously pillaged by ancient grave robbers, so it still contained the wonderful artifacts that had been buried with the young king more than three millennia earlier.
(C) [■] Over the next several years Carter and his team systematically photographed and catalogued the objects from the tomb, then transported them to the Cairo Museum.
(D) [■] There is a certain irony in this story that raises complex ethical questions. Why are Carter and his
party
not called grave robbers? Why are their actions in stripping the tomb acceptable—even praiseworthy—when similar behavior by common thieves would be deplored? No matter who opens a tomb and takes away its contents, that person is violating the intentions of
those
who sealed the tomb originally. No matter what the motivation, a human body that was meant to rest in peace for all time has been disturbed. Should this not make us feel uncomfortable? From the beginning, some were uneasy about the propriety of unearthing Tutankhamen’s remains. When Lord Carnarvon, Carter’s sponsor, died suddenly from a mosquito bite, and several others connected with the project experienced tragedies, rumors arose about the "curse of King Tut". But Carter himself died peacefully many years later, and the talk subsided.
Perhaps it is the passage of time that transforms grave robbing into archaeology.
Carter would no doubt have been outraged if, say, his grandmother’s coffin had been dug up to strip the body of its jewelry. But after three thousand years Tutankhamen has no living relatives to protest his disturbance. Perhaps it is a question of the words we use to describe such ancient finds. We speak of Tutankhamen’s "mummy", and mummy is a clean, historical-sounding word. Parents bring their children to museums to see the mummies and mummy cases. We can almost forget that a mummy is the embalmed body of a dead human being, pulled out of its coffin so that we can marvel at the coffin and sometimes the body itself. Or, perhaps the difference between grave robbing and archaeology lies in the motives of the perpetrators. Common thieves are motivated by greed, by their quest for money to be made by selling stolen objects. Carter and his team did not sell the treasures from Tutankhamen’s tomb but stored them safely in the Cairo Museum, where art lovers from around the world can see them.
They
were, in effect, making a glorious gift to the people of our century and centuries to come (while at the same time, one must point out, acquiring significant glory for themselves). The basic issue is a
clash
of cultural values. To the Egyptians, it was normal and correct to bury their finest artworks with the exalted dead. To us, the idea of all that beauty being locked away in the dark forever seems an appalling waste. We want to bring it into the light, to have it as part of our precious artistic
heritage
. Almost no one, having seen these magnificent treasures, would seriously propose they be put back in the tomb and sealed up. In the end, inevitably, our cultural values will prevail simply because we are still here and the ancient Egyptians are not. After three thousand years, Tutankhamen’s grave really isn’t his anymore. Whether right or wrong, it belongs to us.
The word clash in Paragraph 8 is closest in meaning to
选项
A、quarrel
B、conflict
C、crash
D、shock
答案
B
解析
本题为词汇题,主要考查考生根据上下文对单词clash一词的理解。clash所在段落提到了两种文化价值的冲突:对埃及人来说,将最好的艺术品和死者合葬在一起是司空见惯的做法。然而,对我们来说,将所有美好的东西永远锁在黑暗中是令人惊骇的。所以,clash的意思应该是选项B(冲突)。选项A(争吵)、C(坠落)和D(冲击)的意思都不合适,所以选B。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/mFyO777K
0
托福(TOEFL)
相关试题推荐
Youshouldspendabout20minutesonQuestions14-26whicharebasedonReadingPassage2below.CoastalArchaeologyofBritain
Youshouldspendabout20minutesonQuestions27-40whicharebasedonReadingPassage3below.DesignedtoLast:CouldBetter
REVIEWOFRESEARCHONTHEEFFECTSOFFOODPROMOTIONTOCHILDRENThisreviewwascommissionedbytheFoodStandardsAgencytoex
ChooseTHREEletters,A-F.Writethecorrectlettersinboxesonyouranswersheet.Thelistbelowincludescharacteristics
【1】Whendoesthelostpropertyofficeopen?
Theuniversityhasproduceda______toinformstudentsaboutthedifferentaccommodationoptionsavailable.Allcateredandse
MartinaBila’sappointmentwiththeaccommodationofficerisat______.WhatwillMartinalose?
TheprofessoralreadyknowssomethingaboutClarefromher______.
Completethenotesbelow.WriteNOMORETHANTHREEWORDSAND/ORANUMBERforeachanswer.SCHEDULEOFACTIONRead’Approache
Whatisthemainideaofthepassage?TheauthororganizesthediscussionoftheEarth’satmosphereintermsofthe______.
随机试题
社会惰化
2岁小儿,发热,咳嗽,畏光4d就诊,体温40℃,结合膜充血,有分泌物,耳后发际部可见红色斑丘疹,疹间皮肤正常。最可能的诊断是
在一项流行病学实验研究中,随机选择了3000名2岁儿童进行乙肝疫苗预防接种效果的评价,随访观察了5年,结果70%的接种者未患乙肝。对此项研究,你的看法是
居住建筑包括()
公司的发起人、股东虚假出资,未交付或者未按期交付作为出资的货币或者非货币财产的,由公司登记机关责令改正,处以虚假出资金额()罚款。
《中华人民共和国义务教育法》明确规定义务教育的对象是全体适龄儿童和青少年。()
类脑计算技术总体分为三个层次:结构层次模仿脑、器件层次逼近脑、智能层次超越脑。其中,结构层次模仿脑是指将大脑作为一个物质和生理对象进行解析,获得基本单元(各类神经元和神经突触等)的功能及其连接关系(网络结构);器件层次逼近脑是指研制能够模拟神经元和神经突触
油对于()相当于()对于车
依照唐律的规定,殴打或者谋杀祖父母的行为属于“十恶”罪中的()。(2014法单17)
对序列(7,19,24,13,31,8,82,18,44,63,5,29)进行一趟排序后得到的结果如下:(7,18,24,13,5,8,82,19,44,63,31,29),则可以认为使用的排序方法是
最新回复
(
0
)