問題詳情

Passage 3 (Questions 51-55):It is true that we cannot be starving and cold and still be happy. But an abundance of food, the satisfaction of elementaryphysical needs alone, is not enough. A man wants to feel that he is important. He wants to be able not only to express hisopinion freely, but to know that it carries some weight; to know that there are some things that he decides, or has a part indeciding, and that he is a needed and useful part of something far bigger than he is.This hankering to be an individual is probably greater today than ever before. Huge factories, assembly lines, mysteriousmechanisms, standardization—these underline the smallness of the individual, because they are so fatally impersonal.If the immediate future of the world could be made personal to the life of most men; if they could see themselves, becauseit was true, as actual participants in that development in their own communities, on their own land, at their own jobs andbusinesses—there would be something to tie to. Men would not only have more things; they would be stronger and happiermen.It is the unique strength of democratic methods that they can provide a way of simulating and releasing the individualresourcefulness and inventiveness, the pride of workmanship, the creative genius of human beings whatever their station orfunction. A world of science and great machines is still a world of men; our modern task is more difficult, but the opportunityfor democratic methods is greater even than in the days of the ax and the hand loom.
51. The most appropriate main theme for this article is __________.
(A) Democracy and Machines
(B) Happiness and Men
(C) Happiness and Democracy
(D) Machines and Happiness
(E) Men and Machines

參考答案

答案：E
難度：非常困難0
統計：A(0),B(1),C(1),D(0),E(0)

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