生活哲理类
[考题11]（mnet典型例题 )
olaf stapledon wrote a book called first and last men, in which he looked millions of years ahead. he told of different men and of strange civilizations, broken up by long "dark ages" in between. inhis view, what is called the present time is no more than a moment in human histo ry and we are just the first men. in 典型例题llion years from now there will be the eighteenth or last men.
however, most of our ideas about the future are really very short-sighted. perhaps we can see some possibilities for the next fifty years. but the next hundred? the next thousand? the next million? that's much more difficult.
when men and women lived by hunting 50,000 years ago, how could they even begin to picture modern life? yet to men of 50,000 years from now, we may seem as primitive (原始的) in our ideas as the stone-age hunters do to us. perhaps they will spend their days gollocking to make new spundels, or struggling with their ballalators through the cribe. these words, which i have just made up, have to stand for things and ideas that we simply can't think of.
so why bother even to try imagining life far in the future? here are two reasons. first, unless we remember how short our own [ives are compared with the whole human history, we are likely to think our own interests are much more important than they really are. if we make the earth a poor place to live on because we are careless or greedy or quarrelsome, our grandchildren will not bother to think of excuses for us.
second, by trying to escape from present interests and imagine life far in the future, we may arrive at quite fresh ideas that we can use ourselves. for example, if we imagine that in the future men may give up farming, we can think of trying it now. so ,set your imagination free when you think about the future.
1. a particular mention made of stapledon's book in the opening paragraph .
a. serves as a description of human history
b. serves as an introduction to the discussion
c. shows a disagreement of views
d. shows the popularity of the book
2. the text discusses men and women 50,000 years ago and 50,000 years from now in order to show that .
a. human history is extremely long
b. life has changed a great deal
c. it is useless to plan for the next 50 years
d. it is difficult to tell what will happen in the future
3. "spundels" and "ballalators" are used in the text to refer to .
a. tools used in farming b. ideas about modern life
c. unknown things in the future d. hunting skills in the stone age
4. according to the writer of the text, imagining the future will
a. serve the interests of the present and future generations
b. enable us to better understand human history
c. help us to improve farming
d. make life worth living
[解析]
这是一篇介绍olaf stapledon的专著《最初的和最后的人类》的文章。
1．b．这是一道对这篇短文的作用进行探讨的题目。可用排除法解题。先排除a，因为这篇短文并非是对人类历史进行描述；再排除c，因为作者在此文章中并非是对不同观点的否定；最后排除d，因为作者并非要说明这本书的普遍意义。至于b项，正好符合这本书引导人们讨论的意图。
2．d．这是一道逻辑推理题。文中提及50，000年前，处于狩猎时代的人们不可能勾勒出现代生活的画卷；也许我们将来会被认为是我们所认为的原始人，正如石器时代的狩猎者和我们相比一样。可知要预测较为遥远的未来是一件困难的事情。
3．c．这是一道通过上下文猜测词义的题目。从上下文可知，这边四个词汇是作者杜撰的，用以形象地表示祝贺10，000年后未知的事物和行为。
4．a．这是一道逻辑推理题。文中提及现在即开始想像，是基于两点理由：人生是有限的；我们可能得到我们没有得到的新颖的见解。文中还提及如果我们因粗心大意和贪得无厌而把地球弄得一塌糊涂而不能居住，我们的子孙们就不难找到迁怒于我们的理由。
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