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传统中国的日常生活世界总是曲里拐弯,充满细节、_血肉,剪不断,理还乱。在是否宜居方面,与摩天大楼相比,苏州园林、四合院并不落后与以购物为唯一目的的超市相比,庙会、集市带来的不是混乱,而是更顺乎人情。
作者通过这段文字意在强调()。

A.传统中国的日常生活其实并不混乱

B.表面纷乱的传统生活有自己的魅力

C.传统中国的日常生活比现代生活更好

D.摩天大楼和超市代表的现代生活缺乏人情味

答案

参考答案:B

解析:

文段首先指出传统中国的日常生活世界是纷乱的;接着由“并不落后”、“更顺乎人情”可知,作者对这种表面纷乱背后的实质是认可的,甚至是赞美的,认为其有自己独特的魅力的。

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As Oil Declines, So does America


More than 100 years ago, America’s first great economic (26) abroad was spearheaded by its giant oil companies, notably John D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil Company. These companies (27) powerful beachheads in Mexico and Venezuela, and later in parts of Asia, North Africa and, of course, the Middle East. (28) they became ever more dependent on the extraction of oil in distant lands, American foreign policy began to be (29) around acquiring and protecting US oil concessions in major (30) areas.
With World War Ⅱ and the Cold War, oil and US national (31) became thoroughly intertwined. After all, the United States had prevailed over the Axis (32) in significant part because it possessed vast reserves of domestic petroleum, while Germany and Japan lacked them, depriving their forces of vital (33) supplies in the final years of the war. As it happened, though, the United States was using up its domestic (34) so rapidly that, even before World War Ⅱ was over, Washington (35) its attention to finding new overseas sources of crude oil that could be (36) under American control. As a result, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and a host of other Middle Eastern producers would become key US oil suppliers (37) American military protection.
There can be (38) question that, for a time, American domination of world oil production would prove a potent source of economic and military power. (39) World War Ⅱ, an abundance of cheap US oil spurred the (40) of vast new industries, including civilian air travel, highway construction, a (41) of suburban housing and commerce, mechanized agriculture, and plastics.

A. broughtB. occupied C. set D. laid

Abundant oil also underlay the global expansion of the country’s (42) power, as the Pentagon defended the world while becoming one of the planet’s great oil guzzlers. Its global dominion came to (43) on an ever-expanding array of oil-powered ships, planes, tanks and missiles. As long as the Middle East—and especially Saudi Arabia—served essentially as an American gas station and oil (44) a cheap commodity, all this was relatively painless. That is why the use of military force has been a (45) of American foreign policy since 1987.

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