《毕金献阅读理解》电子书节选之四_大学英语阅读

《毕金献阅读理解》电子书节选之四

　　[A] fighters believe that the winner is right and the loser wrong.

　　[B] only those who are mighty have the right to go to war.

　　[C] those who are right should fight against those who are wrong.

　　[D] only powerful nations might win the right to rule weak ones.

　　14. Even our own age has fought the two greatest wars in history. The author says this in order to show that our own age is

　　[A] different from those of the past.

　　[B] not much better than the past ones.

　　[C] more civilized than the past times.

　　[D] staying as civilized as those of the past.

　　15. The author s attitude to war may be best expressed as

　　[A] a great disappointment.[B] a cold reproach.

　　[C] a stern condemnation.[D] a sharp criticism.

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　　Through human history, weather has altered the march of events and caused some mighty cataclysms. Since Columbus did not know where he was going or where he had arrived when he got there, the winds truly deserve nearly as much credit as he for the discovery of America. Ugly west winds helped turn the 1588 Spanish Armada away from England in a limping panic. Napoleon was done in twice by weather: once by the snow and cold that forced his fearful retreats from Moscow, later by the rain that bedevilled him at Waterloo and caused Victor Hugo to write: A few drops of water... and unseasonable cloud crossing the sky, sufficed for the overthrow of a world. In 1944 the Allied invasion of Normandy was made possible by a narrow interval of reasonably good weather between the bad. It was so narrow, in fact, that Supreme Allied Commander Dwight Eisenhower later expressed gratitude to the gods of war .