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根据网考网考试中心的统计分析，以下试题在2019/11/5日考研习题练习中，答错率较高，为：66%
【单选题】The classic difficulty felt with democracy arises from the fact that democracy can never express the will of the whole people because there never exists any such unchanging will (at least in any society that call itself democratic). The concept of government of the whole people by the whole people must be looked on as being in the poetry rather than in the prose of democracy; the fact of prose is that real democracy means government by some kind of dominant majority.　　And the ever-present danger, repeatedly realized in fact, is that this dominant majority may behave toward those who are not of the majority in such a manner as to undermine the moral basis of the right of people, because they are people, to have some important say in the setting of their own course and in the use of their own faculties. Other forms of government may similarly fail to respect human independence.But there is at least no contradiction in that; the underlying assumption of every kind of government by wisers and betters is that people on the whole are not fit to manage their own affairs, but must have someone else do it for them, and there is no paradox when such a government treats its subjects without respect, or deals with them on the basis of their having no rights that the government must take into account.　　But democracy affirms that people are fit to control themselves, and it cannot live in the same air with the theory that there is no limit to the extent to which public power--even the power of a majority--can interfere with the lives of people.　　Rational limitation on power is therefore not a contradiction to democracy, but is of the very essence of democracy as such. Other sorts of government may impose such limitations on themselves as an act of grace.Democracy is under the moral duty of limiting itself because such limitation is essential to the survival of that respect for humankind which is in the foundations of democracy. Respect for the freedom of all people cannot, of course, be the only guide, for there would then be no government.Delicate ongoing compromise is what must be looked for.But democracy, unless it is to deny its own moral basis, must accept the necessity for making this compromise and for giving real weight to the claims of those without the presently effective political power to make their claims prevail in elections By "the prose of democracy" ( Par. 1 ) the author most probably means its
A、 popular interpretation.

B、 actual operation.
C． ongoing compromise.
D． rational limitation.

网考网参考答案：B，答错率：66%
网考网试题解析：
据第1段第2句所说的“全民政体全民治理的思想”，poetry(诗歌)指的是 theory或theoretical concept，与其对应的prose(散文)则应指B项的“实际操作”。 A项与文意相反。C项“不断进行的妥协”，D项“合理的限制”，皆出现在第4段，不合此处意思。 document.getElementById("warp").style.display="none"; document.getElementById("content").style.display="block"; 查看试题解析出处>>