問題詳情

“Manners Make the Man.”, as an English saying goes. But in the
modern world, where Man is concerned with so many serious global
problems, do manners really matter any more? Some modern writers
and thinkers believe that they do, and have recently decided to explore
the subject, convinced that manners are as desirable as they were in the
past, or maybe even more so, in our busy and overcrowded urban
societies.
For many years manners were associated with a highly restrictive
code of behavior. A hundred years ago correct behavior was, in fact,
often used to enforce the class system. Of course, many of the old
rules are also unsuitable for modern society. “Always open the door
for a lady” is both patronizing and sexist. “Children should be seen
and not heard” has always been much too severe! However, many
people would like to return to the days when we were more openly
respectful of each other, and used the words please and thank you in
conversations with strangers and friends.
However, we often seem to associate manners with weakness.
People who are considerate are ridiculed and laughed at as being
old-fashioned, conformist and conservative, rather than civilized,
respectful, courteous, and thoughtful – merely interested in improving
the quality of our lives. But surely motorists should not have to fight
for a place on the road, shoppers should not have to argue with “the
clever people” pushing into the queue, and teachers should not be
afraid of their students.

46. According to the first paragraph, which of the followingstatements is true about “manners”?
(A) Modern writers are convinced that global issues should be putat the top of the priority list.
(B) Manners are more important in the past than in the modernsociety.
(C) Manners are still important from some modern thinkers’perspective.
(D) Some writers believe that modern people are too busy to beconcerned with manners.

參考答案

答案：C
難度：適中0.639752
統計：A(11),B(28),C(103),D(16),E(0)

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