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
Hostility to Gypsies has existed almost from the time they first appeared in Europe in the 14th century. The origins of the Gyps
Hostility to Gypsies has existed almost from the time they first appeared in Europe in the 14th century. The origins of the Gyps
admin
2011-02-11
54
问题
Hostility to Gypsies has existed almost from the time they first appeared in Europe in the 14th century. The origins of the Gypsies, with little written history, were shrouded in mystery. What is known now from clues in the various dialects of their language, Romany, is that they came from northern India to the Middle East a thousand years ago, working as minstrels and mercenaries, metal-smiths and servants. Europeans misnamed them Egyptians, soon shortened to Gypsies. A clan system, based mostly on their traditional crafts and geography, has made them a deeply fragmented and fractious people, only really unifying in the face of enmity from non-Gypsies, whom they call gadje. Today many Gypsy activists prefer to be called Roma, which comes from the Romany word for "man". But on my travels among them most still referred to themselves as Gypsies.
In Europe their persecution by the gadje began quickly, with the church seeing heresy in their fortune-telling and the state seeing anti-social behaviour in their nomadism. At various times they have been forbidden to wear their distinctive bright clothes, to speak their own language, to travel, to marry One another, or to ply their traditional crafts. In some countries they were reduced to slavery. It wasn’t until the mid-1800s that Gypsy slaves were freed in Romania. In more recent times the Gypsies were caught up in Nazi ethnic hysteria, and perhaps half a million perished in the Holocaust. Their horses have been shot and the wheels removed from their wagons, their names have been changed, their women have been sterilized, and their children have been forcibly given for adoption to non-Gypsy families.
But the Gypsies have confounded predictions of their disappearance as a distinct ethnic group and their numbers have burgeoned. Today there are an estimated 8 to 12 million Gypsies scattered across Europe, making them the continent’s largest minority. The exact number is hard to pin down. Gypsies have regularly been undercounted, both by regimes anxious to downplay their profile and by Gypsies themselves, seeking to avoid bureaucracies. Attempting to remedy past inequities, activist groups may overcount. Hundreds of thousands more have emigrated to the Americas and elsewhere. With very few exceptions Gypsies have expressed no great desire for a country to call their own-unlike the Jews, to whom the Gypsy experience is often compared. "Romanestan" said Ronald Lee, the Canadian Gypsy writer, "is where my two feet stand. "
According to the passage, the main difference between the Gypsies and the Jews lies in their concepts of ______.
选项
A、language
B、culture
C、identity
D、custom
答案
C
解析
本题为细节理解题。短文最后一句说with very few exceptions Gypsies have expressed no great desire for a country to call their own—unlike the Jews,即“绝大部分吉卜赛人对建立一个自己民族的国家没有多大欲望,不像犹太人那样”,由此可知,他们的主要区别在于他们对他们的身份所持的不同观点上.所以答案应为C。文中未将吉卜赛人与犹太人的语言、文化或习俗进行比较,故A,B,D项都不符合题意。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/uFYO777K
0
专业英语八级
相关试题推荐
Ifyouhaveeverdreamedofslippingintothecomfortingsoftnessofacashmeresweateryoushouldfollowtheexampleofthehab
Why,youmaywonder,shouldspidersbeourfriends?Becausetheyprotectsomanyinsects,andinsectsinclude【M1】______someof
WhenIappearedbeforeyouonapreviousoccasion,IhadseennothingofAmericanartsavetheDoriccolumnsandCorinthianchim
BrowningintroducedanewformtoEnglishpoetry,thatis______.
A、Theliteraryworld,theartcircles,socialscience-economics.B、Historyandgeography,scienceandtechnology.C、Speciesand
AcupunctureRecently,acupuncturehasbecomea【1】______wordinAmerica.【1】______Acupuncturewasperformedi
BythetimeIbeganteachingintheearly1970s,everyonealreadyseemedtobeinbusinessforhimself,lookingforthebestdea
Thirty-twopeoplewatchedkittyGenovesebeingkilledrightbeneaththeirwindows.Shewastheirneigh-bor.Yetnoneofthe32
A、seenB、orderedC、deniedD、forbiddenA
我一直以为大学校长是高瞻远瞩、指导学术与教育大方向的决策人,而不是管馒头稀饭的保姆,但这也暂且不提。这一类型的教育者的用心,毋庸置疑,当然是善意的。问题是,我们论“事”的时候,用心如何根本不重要,重要的是实际的后果,而教育的后果何其严重!在这种过度呵护的幼
随机试题
泵所输送液体的粘度越大,则液体在泵内()的越大,使泵的()、()、()都减小,而()增大。
病人昨晚突然出现胃脘疼痛,畏寒喜暖,不思饮食,暖气频频,形寒,身热,舌淡苔白,脉弦紧。治宜选用
慢性子宫颈炎病人的典型临床表现是
"忧者见之则忧,喜者见之则喜"是指
A.脾胃气虚B.肾阴亏虚C.阴虚燥热D.肾阳衰微E.阴阳两虚消渴见尿频量多,浊如膏脂,腰酸膝软,头晕耳鸣,多梦遗精,乏力肤燥,舌红少苔,脉细数,中医辨证为
不燃烧材料是指在空气中受到火烧或高温作用时不起火、不微燃、不炭化的材料。其不包括()。
( )是证明投资各方投入财产价值量的有效依据。
教育的生机和活力,就在于促进学生()健康发展。
故槐里令朱云上书求见,公卿在前,云曰:“今朝廷大臣,上不能匡①主,下无以益民,皆尸位素餐②。臣愿赐尚方斩马剑,断佞臣一人头以厉③其余。”上④问:“谁也?”对曰:“安昌侯张禹⑤!”上大怒曰:“小臣居下讪上,廷辱师傅,罪死不赦。”御史将⑥云下,云攀殿栏,栏折。
A、 B、 C、 C
最新回复
(
0
)