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1、 全国英语等级考试五级阅读真题演练 Part B In the following article, some paragraphs have been removed. For Questions 66 to 70, choose the most suitable paragraph from the list A-F to fit into each of the numbered gaps. There is one paragraph which does not fit in any of the gaps. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1.
2、 There are as many definitions of philosophy as there are philosophers-perhaps there are even more. After three millermia of philosophical activity and disagreement, it is unlikely that well reach consensus, and I certainly dont want to add more hot air to the volcanic cloud of unknow- ing. What Id
3、like to do in the opening column in this new venture is to kick things off by asking a slightly different ouestion: What is a ohilosooher? 66. Socrates tells the story of Thales, who was by some accounts the first philosopher. He was looking so intently at the stars that he fell into a well. Some wi
4、tty Thracian servant girl is said to have made a joke at Thales expense-that in his eagerness to know what went on in the sky he was unaware of the things in front of him and at his feet. Socrates adds, in Seth Benardetes transla- tion, The same jest suffices for all those who engage in philosophy.
5、What is a philosopher, then? The answer is clear: a laughing stock, an absent-minded buf- foon, the butt of countless jokes from Aristophanes The Clouds to Mel Brooks History of the World,. Whenever the philosopher is compelled to talk about the things at his feet, he gives not only the Thracian gir
6、l but the rest of the crowd a belly laugh. 67. But as always with Plato, things are not necessarily as they first appear, and Socrates is the greatest of ironists. First, we should recall that Thales believed that water was the universal sub- stance out of which all things were composed. Water was T
7、hales philosophers stone, as it were. Therefore, by falling into a well, he inadvertently presses his basic philosophical claim. But there is a deeper and more troubling layer of irony here that I would like to peel off more slowly. Socrates introduces the digression by making a distinction between
8、the philosopher and the lawyer, or what Benardete nicely renders as the pettifogger. 68. By contrast, we might say, the philosopher is the person who has time or who takes time. Theodorus, Socrates interlocutor, introduces the digression with the words, Arent we at leis- ure, Socrates? The latters r
9、esponse is interesting. He says, It appears we are. As we know, in philosophy aooearances can be deceotive. 69. Pushing this a little further, we might say that to philosophize is to take your time, even When you have no time, when time is constantly pressing at your back. The busy readers of The Ne
10、w York Times will understand this sentiment. 70. Socrates says that those in the constant press of business, like lawyers, policy-makers, mort- gage brokers and hedge fund managers, become bent and stunted and they are compelled to do crooked things. The pettifogger is undoubtedly successful, wealth
11、y and extraordinarily honey- tongued, but, Socrates adds, small in his soul and shrewd and a shyster. The philosopher, by contrast, is free by virtue of his or her other-worldliness, by their capacity to fall into wells and ap- pear silly. A.The philosophers clumsiness in worldly affairs makes him a
12、ppear stupid, or, gives the im- pression of plain silliness. We are left with a rather Monty Pythonesque definition of the philosopher: the one who is silly. B.The lawyer is compelled to present a case in court and time is of the essence. In Greek legal proceedings, a strictly limited amount of time
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