四六级考试

【单选题】I had an experience some years ago which taught me something about the ways in which people make a bad situation worse by blaming themselves. One January., I Had to officiate at two funerals on successive days for two elderly women in my community.Both had died "full of years", as theBible would say; both yielded to the normal wearing out of the body after a long and full life. Their homes happened to be near each other, so I paid condolence (吊唁) calls on the two families on the same afternoon. At the first home, the son of the deceased (已故的) woman said to me, "If only 1 had sent my mother to Florida and gotten her out of this cold and snow, she would be alive today. It’’s my fault that she dieD、"At the second home, the son of the other deceased woman said, "If only I hadn’’t insisted on my mother’’s going to Florida, she would be alive today. That long airplane ride, the abrupt change of climate, was more than she could take. It’’s my fault that she’’s deaD、"When things don’’t turn out as we would like them to, it is very tempting to assume that had we done things differently, the story would have had a happier ending. Priests know that any time there is a death, the survivors will feel guilty.Because the course of action they took turned out badly, they believe that the opposite course -- keeping Mother at home, postponing the operation -- would have turned out better.After all, how could it have turned out any worse There seem to be two elements involved in our readiness to feel guilt. The first is our pressing need to believe that the world makes sense, that there is a cause for every effect and a reason for everything that happens, That leads us to find patterns and connections both where they really exist and where they exist only in our minds.The second element is the notion that we are the cause of what happens, especially the bad things that happen. It seems to be a short step from believing that every event has a cause to believing that every disaster is our fault. The roots of this feeling may lie in our childhooD、Psychologists speak of the infantile myth of omnipotence (万能).
A、baby comes to think that the world exists to meet his needs, and that he makes everything happen in it. He wakes up in the morning and summons the rest of the world to its tasks. He cries, and someone comes to attend to him. When he is hungry, people feed him, and when he is wet, people change him. Very often, we do not completely outgrow that infantile notion that our wishes cause things to happen. People have been made to believe since infancy that________.
A、everybody is at their command
B．life and death is an unsolved mystery
C．every story should have a happy ending
D．their wishes are the cause of everything that happens

网考网参考答案：D
网考网解析：
推理语义题。题目询问人们从婴儿时期的经历就使他们相信________。文章最后一段第5句“A baby comes to think that the world exists to meet his needs，and that he makes everything happen in it. (婴儿渐渐形成这样的想法，即这个世界是应他的需要而存在的，而且是他使这个世界运转起来。)”其中“he makes everything happen in it ”与D项“their wishes are the cause of everything that happens”是同一表达。再结合后面的论述对这一句的进一步解释，可一判断D项正确。其他选项中A项的干扰性较大。主要是在与“at their command”这个短语的理解，这个短语意为“听某人支配”，与原文中“meet his needs"意思不同，前者更强调是主动的命令，后者是更倾向于表达“是……的原因”。 document.getElementById("warp").style.display="none"; document.getElementById("content").style.display="block"; 查看试题解析出处>>