Most of the people who appear most
often and most gloriously in the history books are great conquerors and generals
and soldiers, whereas the people who really helped civilization forward are
often never mentioned at all. We do not know who first set a broken leg, or
launched a seaworthy boat, or calculated the length of the year, or manured a
field; but we know all about the killers and destroyers. People think a great
deal of them, so much so that on all the highest pillars in the great cities of
the world you will find the figure of a conqueror or a general or a soldier. And
I think most people believe that the greatest countries are those that have
beaten in battle the greatest number of other countries and ruled over them as
conquerors. It is just possible they are, but they are not the most civilized.
Animals fight; so do savages; A. most history books were written by conquerors, generals and soldiers. B. no one who really helped civilisation forward is mentioned in any history book. C. history books neglect the real heroes behind civilisation. D. conquerors, generals and soldiers should not be mentioned in history books. [填空题] Many people in the literary would say that British literature has lost its 【B1】 nowadays. Many others 【B2】 with this opinion. But what is not 【B3】 doubt is that a lot of the exciting new literature published in Britain in recent years 【B4】 been written by people from outside Britain. Since 1981, nine of the fourteen winners of the Booker Prize, an important prize 【B5】 a work of fiction, were writers from 【B6】 British colonies like India.
【B7】 many of the best ’’serious’’ British writers manage to be popular as well as pro found, the vast 【B8】 of the books could not be classified as ’’serious’’ literature. Britain is the home of 【B9】 might be called ’’middlebrow’’ literature. (That is, mid-way between serious and popular fiction) Many British authors write novels 【B10】 as ’’romances’’ , one of the middlebrow types. The British publisher which sells more books than any other is Mills & Boon, 【B11】 books are exclusively 【B12】 this ty
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