问题 单项选择题

在发展的早期,英国人就似乎天然具有了恪守法律、严格限制王权的传统,并且,保守、改良、谈判、妥协成为了英国人很早发现的一种社会发展模式,也成了英国人为世界贡献的一种宪政发展模式,一直影响着近代英语世界许多国家的宪政发展。在欧陆文明中,神权与王权、教皇与国王二元并立的状况,使西方人的法制建设在很早的时候便奠定了后来的优良历史传统。分权而不是集权,是西方人法治文明尤其是宪政架构成功的一个重要因素。而权力分权并多元并存这一制度传统,从文明根基上看,则萌芽于西方的文明源头上的宗教因子。
作者列举这些事实意在说明( )。

A.人类不同文明的文化源头
B.不同文化法治发展差异的原因
C.法治的发展与文明根基息息相关
D.西方法治发展所经历的种种模式

答案

参考答案:C

解析: 文段的第一句和第二句以并列方式列举了一些事实,意在说明不同文明的国度中,法治的发展有很大的差异。文段的最后一句点明了讲述的重点:从文明根基上看,则萌芽于西方的文明源头上的宗教因子,即与文明密切相关。A项与文段无关,排除。B选项中关于文化法治发展的差异的原因并未在文中提及。D项过于宽泛,文中只提到了英国宪政发展模式,也不是文段讲述的重点,排除。因此,本题正确答案为C。

单项选择题
单项选择题

Passage Three

While fashion is thought of usually in relation to clothing, it is important to realize that it covers a much wider domain. It is to be found in manners, the arts, literature, and philosophy, and may even reach into certain areas of science. In fact, it may operate in any field of group life, apart from the technological and utilitarian area and the area of the sacred.Its operation requires a class society, for in its essential character it docs not occur either in a homogeneous society like a primitive group, or in a caste society.
Fashion behaves as a movement, and on this basis it is different from custom which, by comparison, is static.This is due to the fact that fashion is based fundamentally on differentiation and emulation. In a class society, the upper classes or so-called social elite are not able to differentiate themselves by fixed symbols or badges. Hence the more external features of their life and behavior are likely to be imitated by classes immediately below them, who, in turn, are imitated by groups immediately below them in the social structure. This process gives to fashion a vertical descent. However, the elite class finds that it is no longer distinguishable, by reason of the imitation made by others, and hence is led to adopt new differentiating criteria, only to displace
these as they in turn are imitated.It is primarily this feature that makes fashion into a movement and which has led one writer to remark that a fashion, once launched, moves to its doom.
As a movement, fashion show little resemblance to any of the other movements which we have considered.While it occurs spontaneously and moves along in a characteristic cycle, it in volves little in the way of crowd behavior and it is not dependent upon the discussion process and the resulting public opinion. It does not depend upon the mechanisms of which we have spoken. The participants are not recruited through agitation. No morale is built up among them. Nor does the fashion movement have, or required, an ideology. Further, since it does not have a leader- ship imparting conscious direction to the movement, it does not build up a set of tactics. People take part in the fashion movement voluntarily and in response to the interesting and powerful kind of control which fashion imposes on them.

It is known from the first paragraph that______

A.fashion operates in every society

B.fashion can be found only in a few fields of group life

C.fashion originates in a class society

D.people like to keep up with fashion in a primitive society