67.
We can infer from the story that the
author______.
A. was in favor of slavery
B. was supportive about Harriet's work
C. thought the Fugitive Slave Law was good
D. thought slaves were treated well in the
North
D
We can achieve knowledge either actively or
passively(被动地). We achieve it actively by
direct experience, by testing and proving an idea, or by reasoning.
We achieve knowledge passively by being told
by someone else. Most of the learning that takes place in the classroom and the
kind that happens when we watch TV or read newspapers or magazines is passive.
Conditioned as we are to passive learning, it’s not surprising that we depend
on it in our everyday communication with friends and co-workers.
Unfortunately, passive learning has a serious
problem. It makes us tend to accept what we are told even when it is little
more than hearsay and rumor(谣言).
Did you ever play the game Rumor? It begins
when one person writes down a message but doesn’t show it to anyone. Then the
person whispers it, word for word, to another person. That person, in turn,
whispers it to still another, and so on, through all the people playing the
game. The last person writes down the message word for word as he or she hears
it. Then the two written statements are compared. Typically, the original
message has changed.
That’s what happens in daily life. The simple
fact that people repeat a story in their own words changes the story. Then,
too, most people listen imperfectly. And many enjoy adding their own creative
touch to a story, trying to improve on it, stamping(打上标记)it
with their own personal style. Yet those who hear it think they know.
This process is also found among scholars and
authors: A statement of opinion by one writer may be re-stated as fact by
another, who may in turn be quoted by yet another; and this process may
continue, unless it occurs to someone to question the facts on which the
original writer based his opinion or to challenge the interpretation he placed
upon those facts.