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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
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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2013-02-16
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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.
Judging from the context, the reason for the writer to talk about the poets is that______.
选项
A、they tried to talk to people who were to come after them
B、they knew good and evil better than other people
C、they were the most emotional people in their times
D、they recorded the life of ancient people in their poems
答案
D
解析
推理题。文中第二段讲到,人类始终是人类。我们与古人有着共同的本性,因而也会分享某些人类共有的体验和问题。第三段又说,诗人可以作证,古人也曾看过日出和日落,感觉过吹过脸颊上的风,被爱和欲望所支配,经历过喜悦和激动,挫折和失望,懂得了善与恶。从中可以推知,古人的诗中描述了古人的生活,以此来说明不论过去还是现在,人类分享着某些共有的体验和问题。所以正确答案是D。
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