I agree with the saying that some people “see old memories as a chance to deal with the past and unite past and present.” Many people are so ___1___ by things that happened in their past that they are not able to focus on the ___2___ . For example, in the book Ceremony, the main character, Tayo, cannot concentrate on the present because he can’t forget his troubled childhood and ___3___ continues to relive things that happened during that time.
However, past memories can help people to ___4___ in the present. A ___5___ example of people learning from the past would be the Marshall Plan. After the ___6___ of World War II there were many war-torn countries around the world in need of ___7___ assistance to help rebuild their countries, and the United States would have to be the one to ___8___ that assistance. Many American politicians thought it was ___9___ for the US government to spend money abroad on countries that would not be able to repay it for a long time. However, George Marshall, a former US general, remembered how the exact same ___10___ of "why should we spend money on war-torn nations that really owe us reparations (赔款)?" had been used after World War I towards Germany. The ___11___ of assistance towards Germany after World War I had caused a gigantic economic depression in Germany that had made the Mark (German money) virtually ___12___ . The German people became so desperate that they started ___13___ an extreme German nationalist named Adolf Hitler, who eventually started World War II. Marshall knew that if the US did not ___14___ war-torn Germany and, especially, Japan, we could ___15___ have a World War III on our hands.
小题1: | A.shocked | B.troubled | C.punished | D.annoyed |
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小题2: | A.memory | B.situation | C.present | D.future |
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小题3: | A.constantly | B.innocently | C.ridiculously | D.rarely |
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小题4: | A.forget | B.recover | C.enjoy | D.compare |
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小题5: | A.personal | B.scientific | C.historical | D.commercial |
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小题6: | A.conclusion | B.decision | C.invasion | D.extension |
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小题7: | A.medical | B.political | C.economic | D.lawful |
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小题8: | A.need | B.provide | C.find | D.prevent |
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小题9: | A.reasonable | B.necessary | C.difficult | D.foolish |
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小题10: | A.statement | B.argument | C.suggestion | D.introduction |
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小题11: | A.intension | B.request | C.influence | D.lack |
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小题12: | A.hopeless | B.worthless | C.worldwide | D.valuable |
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小题13: | A.refusing | B.employing | C.supporting | D.charging |
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小题14: | A.stop | B.warn | C.resist | D.help |
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小题15: | A.similarly | B.simply | C.regularly | D.unlikely |
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