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[单项选择]St.Paul didn’t like it. Moses warned his people against it. Hesiod declared it "mischievous" and "hard to get rid of it", but Oscar Wilder said, "Gossip is charming."
"History is merely gossip," he wrote in one of his famous plays. "But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality."
In times past, under Jewish law, gossipmongers might be fined or flogged(鞭笞). The Puritans put them in stocks or ducking stools, but no punishment seemed to have the desired effect of preventing gossip, which has continued uninterrupted across the back fences of the centuries.
Today, however, the much maligned human foible(弱点) is being looked at in a different light. Psychologists, sociologists, philosophers, even evolutionary biologists are concluding that gossip may not be so bad after all.
"Gossip is a valuable activity," philosophy professor Aaron Ben-Ze’ev states in a book he has edited, entitled Good Gossip. For one thing, gossip helps us acquire information that we need to k
A. show the general disapproval of gossip
B. introduce the topic of gossip
C. examine gossip from a historical perspective
D. prove the real value of gossip
[单项选择]St. Paul didn’t like it. Moses warned his people against it. Hesiod declared it "mischievious” and "hard to get rid of it", but Oscar Wilder said, "Gossip is charming."
"History is merely gossip," he wrote in one of his famous plays. "But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality. ’
In times past, under Jewish law, gossipmongers might be fined or flogged. The Puritans put them in stocks or ducking stools, but no punishment seemed to have the desired effect of preventing gossip, which has continued uninterrupted across the back fences of the centuries.
Today, however, the much-maligned human foible is being looked at in a different light. Psychologists, sociologists, philosophers, even evolutionary biologists are concluding that gossip may not be so bad after all.
Gossip is "an intrinsically valuable activity", philosophy professor Aaron Ben-Ze’ev states in a book he has edited, entitled Good Gossip. For one thing, gossip helps us acquire information that we need to
A. A．5), Professor Aaron Ben-Ze’ev means gossip ______. is a valuable source of social informationB. produces a joy that most people in society needC. brings people the feel of being part of a groupD. satisfies people’s need of being unusual
