问题
单项选择题
| I want to divide human understanding into two kinds—classical understanding and romantic understanding. In terms of ultimate truth, a distinction of this sort has little meaning, but it is quite legitimate when one is operating within the classic mode used to discover or create a world of underlying form. The terms classical and romantic, as Phaedrus used them, mean the following: A classical understanding sees the world primarily as underlying form itself. A romantic understanding sees it primarily in terms of immediate appearance. If you were to show an engine or a mechanical drawing or electronic scheme to a romantic, it is unlikely he would see much of interest in it. It has no appeal because the reality he sees is its surface. Dull, complex lists of names, lines and numbers. Nothing interesting. But if you were to show the same blueprint or give the same description to a classical person, he might look at it and then become fascinated by it because he sees that within the lines and shapes and symbols is a tremendous richness of underlying form. The romantic mode is primarily inspirational, imaginative, creative, intuitive. Feelings rather than facts predominate. "Art" when it is opposed to "Science" is often romantic. It does not proceed by reason or by laws. It proceeds by feeling, intuition and esthetic conscience. In the northern European cultures the romantic mode is usually associated with femininity, but this is certainly not a necessary association. The classic mode, by contrast, proceeds by reason and by laws—which are themselves underlying forms of thought and behavior. In the European cultures it is primarily a masculine mode and the fields of science, law and medicine are unattractive to women largely for this reason. Although motorcycle riding is romantic, motorcycle repair and maintenance are purely classic. The dirt gives it such a negative romantic appeal that women never go near it. |
As inferred from the contrast made at the beginning of Paragraph 2, the word "underlying" as used here is equivalent to
A．deep-rooted
B．underground
C．mediating substance
D．just below the surface
答案
参考答案：A
解析：
[分析]： 推断题型 见第二段：传统式的理解将世界主要看成是它根本的形式；而浪漫式的理解只看到眼前的外形。如果你将一个引擎、机械制图或电子方案展示给浪漫式理解的人看，一般不会引起他的兴趣；之所以会如此是因为他只看到事情的表面：一系列枯燥、复杂的名字、线条、数字，没什么有趣的；但如将同样的计划拿给传统式理解的人看，他也许会被强烈地吸引住；因为他在线条、形状和符号之中看到的是基本构成的丰富。因此A为答案。