2. 考研
  3. America and Europe in the way boastfully and even inhumanly point of view A. we insist on this (68)______ B. there is something

America and Europe in the way boastfully and even inhumanly point of view A. we insist on this (68)______ B. there is something

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问题 America and Europe in the way
boastfully and even inhumanly point of view
A. we insist on this (68)______
B. there is something particularly disquieting(69)______that the European Left
C.From the European (70)______
D. the growing estrangement between(71)______
    One of the saddest things about the period in which we live is (72)______. This may be a surprising discovery to those who are over impressed by the speed with which turbojets can hop from New York to Paris. But to anyone who is aware of what America once meant to English libertarian poets and philosophers, to the young Ibises bitterly excoriating European royalty for the murder of Lincoln, to Italian novelists and poets translating the nineteenth century American classics as a demonstration against Fascism, (73)______, historically "pro-American" because it identified America with expansive democracy, now punishes America with Europe’ s lack of hope in the future.
    Although America has obviously not fulfilled the visionary hope entertained for it in the romantic heyday, Americans have, until recently, thought of themselves as an idea, a "proposition" (in Lincoln’s word) set up for the enlightenment and the improvement of mankind. Officially, we live by our original principles; (74)______. And it is precisely this steadfastness to principle that irks Europeans who under so many pressures have had to shift and to change, to compromise and to retreat.
    Historically, the obstinacy of America’s faith in " principles" has been staggering-the sacrament of the Constitution, the legacy of the Founding Fathers, the moral rightness of all our policies, the invincibility of our faith in the equality and perfectibility of man. (75)______, there is something impossibly romantic, visionary, and perfectibility of man. From the European point of view, there is something impossibly romantic, visionary, and finally outrageous about an attachment to political formulas that arose even before a European revolutionary democracy was born of the French Revolution, and that have survived all the socialist Utopias and internationals. Americans honestly insist on the equality of men even when they deny this equality in practice; they hold fast to romantic doctrines of perfectibility even when such doctrines contradict their actual or their formal faith-whether it be as scientists or as orthodox Christians.
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答案A
解析 根据语境可知，空格所在句的意思为：我们非常呆板地依照我们最初的原则生活；我们很自负甚至是有些不近人情地坚持这些原则。所以，A项符合题意。
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