有人说现代政治制度起源于英国。以下对英国政治制度的说法，正确的是（）
①《大 * * 》是限制王权的开始
②“光荣革命”后，英国统治方式从人治走向法治
③在责任内阁制下，首相和内阁必须从多数党中产生
④ 18世纪英国内阁的地位不断增强，中国内阁的地位却不断下降
A．①②③④
B．①③④
C．②③④
D．①②③
答案：C
本题考查学生的识记分析能力。 《大 * * 》是封建贵族限制王权的开始。 ②③符合史实，④中中国内阁在18世纪随着军机处等机构的设立不断下降。
Passage Two
| Many of us still tend to regard emotions as interfering with rational thought, and sometimes landing us in trouble. But in recent years psychologists have taken quite a different view. Keith Oatley, Professor of psychology at Glasgow University, is involved in the research which shows the fundamental importance of emotions. He believes we are very ambivalent about them: we think of our emotions as being irrational, but we also consider them as essential to being human. For example, Mr. Spock, a character in the television series Startrek is super-intelligent, and he has no emotions at all! However, he is never made captain of the spaceship. Maybe, this is because Mr. Spock is not the kind of person you can identify with a person who shows his emotions. As Professor Oatley points out, our emotions have very important functions, for example, fear. If we cross the road and a car approaches, we usually freeze or step back. We stop what we were doing, check what we have done, and pay very careful attention to the environment. The emotion of fear calls into readiness this small repertoire ( 指令系统 ) of actions which, on average, helps preserve our safety. On the other hand, if things are going well and small problems come up, we find we can solve them with the resources we have to hand. As a consequence, we tend to feel happy and usually continue doing the job. Anger is an emotion that tends to occur when someone is preventing us from doing something. Then this small "kit" of reactions enables us to prepare ourselves to be quite aggressive to that person, or to try harder, and so on. Professor Oatley believes emotions generally occur at these junctures in actions. With fear and anger oar emotions prompt us to start doing something else, whereas with happiness they "suggest" we continue what we are already doing. |
The author thinks that ______.
A．emotions are rational
B．emotions interfere with rational thought
C．emotions help us
D．emotions get us into trouble