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People who question or even look down on the study of the past and its works usually assume that the past is entirely different

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问题     People who question or even look down on the study of the past and its works usually assume that the past is entirely different from the present, and that hence we can learn nothing worthwhile from the past. But it is not true that the past is entirely different from the present. We can learn much of value from its similarity and its difference.
    A tremendous change in the conditions of human life and in our knowledge and control of the natural world has taken place since ancient times. The ancients could not, however, see in advance our contemporary technical and social environment, and hence have no advice to offer us about the particular problems facing us. But, although social and economic arrangements vary with time and place, man still remains man. We and the ancients share a common human nature and hence certain common human experiences and problems.
    The poets bear witness that ancient man, too, saw the sun rise and set, felt the wind on his cheek, was possessed by love and desire, experienced joy and excitement as well as frustration and disappointment, and knew good and evil. The ancient poets speak across the centuries to us, sometimes more directly and vividly than our contemporary writers. And the ancient prophets and philosophers, in dealing with the basic problems of men living together in society, still have something to say to us.
    We also learn from the past by considering the respects in which it differs from the present. We can discover where we are today and what we have become by knowing what the people of the past did and thought. And part of the past—our personal past and that of the race—always lives in us.
In the first line of the last paragraph, the sentence "We can discover where we are today..." means______.
选项 A、we can know how much development we have made
B、we can identify where we are living at the present age
C、we can learn more about our problems
D、we can travel to any place quite easily
答案A
解析 句子理解题。文中最后一段讲到，通过思考过去与现在各个方面的不同之处，我们也可以从过去获益良多。通过了解过往人们的所做所想，我们可以认识到今天我们所处的位置和过去所经历的一切。过去的一部分__个人的过去和种族的过去——永远与我们在一起。从中可知，对比从前与现在人们的所做所想，我们可以知道自己的发展程度。所以正确答案是A。
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