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It is a natural marvel. All of the life of the earth dies, all the time, in the same volume as the new life that dazzles us each
It is a natural marvel. All of the life of the earth dies, all the time, in the same volume as the new life that dazzles us each
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It is a natural marvel. All of the life of the earth dies, all the time, in the same volume as the new life that dazzles us each morning, each spring.
In our way, we human beings conform as best we can to the rest of nature. The obituary pages tell us of the news that we are dying away, while the birth announcements inform us of our replacement , but we get no grasp from this of the enormity of scale. There are 3 billion of us on the earth, and all 3 billion must be dead, on a schedule, within this lifetime. The vast mortality, involving something over 50 million of us each year, takes place in relative secrecy. We can only really know of the deaths in our households, or among our friends. These, detached in our minds from all the rest, we take to be unnatural events, anomalies, outrages. We streak of our own dead in low voices; struck down, we say, as though visible death can only occur for cause, by disease or violence , avoidably. We send off for flowers, grieve, make ceremonies, scatter bones, unaware of the rest of the 3 billion on the same schedule. All of that immense mass of flesh and bone and consciousness will disappear by absorption into the earth, without recognition by the
transient survivors
.
Less than a half century from now, our replacements will have more than doubled the numbers. It is hard to see how we can continue to keep the secret, with such multitudes doing the dying. We will have to give up the notion that death is catastrophe, or detestable, or avoidable, or e-ven strange. We will need to learn more about the cycling of life in the rest of the system, and about our connection to the process. Everything that comes alive seems to be in trade for something that dies, cell for cell. There might be some comfort in the recognition of synchrony, in the information that we all go down together, in the best of company.
"Transient survivors" in Paragraph 2 refers to______.
选项
A、the living mortal human beings
B、people not yet killed by disease or violence
C、relatives of the dead
D、the lucky people that have escaped death in accidents
答案
A
解析
通过对文章的理解可知这里的Transient survivors(短暂的幸存者)指的是与前文提到的死去的人相反的一类人,即还活在世上的人类。
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