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. |
The word "dirt" in the last sentence refers to ______ .
A．underlying form itself
B．immediate appearance
C．romantic understanding
D．motorcycle maintenance
答案
参考答案：B
解析：
[分析]： 词义题型 最后一段讲的是：相反，传统模式需推理和按法规办事，且这推理和法规本身就是思想和行为的根本形式。……尽管骑摩托是浪漫的，摩托修理和保养则完全是传统的，污垢使得修理和保养有着相当负面的浪漫感染力，以至女士们几乎从不染指。前面提到：浪漫式的理解只看到眼前的外形或事情的表面；因此B为答案。