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Vicious and dangerous sports should be banned by law. When you think of the t
Vicious and dangerous sports should be banned by law. When you think of the t
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Vicious and dangerous sports should be banned by law. When you think of the tremendous technological progress we have made, it’s amazing how little we have developed in other respects. We may speak contemptuously of the poor old Romans because they relished the orgies of slaughter that went on in their arenas. We may despise them because they mistook these goings-on for entertainment. We may forgive them condescendingly because they lived 2000 years ago and obviously knew no better. But are our feelings of superiority really justified? Are we any less blood-thirsty? Why do boxing matches, for instance, attract such universal interest? Don’t the spectators who attend them hope they will see some violence? Human beings remain as bloodthirsty as ever they were. The only difference between ourselves and the Romans is that while they were honest enough to admit that they enjoyed watching hungry lions, tearing people apart and eating them alive, we find all sorts of sophisticated arguments to defend sports which should have been banned long age; sports which are quite as barbarous as, say, public hangings or bearbaiting.
It is really incredible that in this day and age we should still allow hunting or bull-fighting, that we should be prepared to sit back and watch two men batter each other to pulp in a boxing ring, that we should be relatively unmoved by the sight of one or a number of racing cars crashing and bursting into flames. Let us not deceive ourselves. Any talk of the sporting spirit’ is sheer hypocrisy. People take part in violent sports because of the high rewards they bring. Spectators are willing to pay vast sums of money to see violence. A world heavyweight championship match, for instance, is front page news.
Millions of people are disappointed if a big fight is over in two rounds instead of fifteen. They feel disappointment because they have been deprived of the exquisite pleasure of witnessing prolonged torture and violence.
There is an undeniable truth that a fairly large amount of people lose their lives in extreme sports activities. It is known to all that most extreme sports are carried out in very atrocious natural circumstances which may lead to unpredictable dangers. To make things worse, a fair number of participants hold inadequate knowledge of both the requirements of extreme sports and the skills to tackle emergent problems they will encounter. All those factors together result in the seemingly dangerous-and-demanding sports which are considered a waste of time in people’s mind.
Objectively speaking, participating in extreme sports benefits people in various aspects involving the proof of self-worth and forming valuable characters. As the comment mentions, the television live show of extreme sports is, in some people’s perspective, an awful propaganda of risking lives. We may get back to the basic question that why those people want to risk their lives in such a "meaningless activity". And why should we ban violent sports if people enjoy them so much? You may well ask. The answer is simple: they are uncivilized. For centuries man has been trying to improve himself spiritually and emotionally — admittedly with little success. But at least we no longer tolerate the sight madmen cooped up in cages, or public floggings of any of the countless other barbaric practices which were common in the past. Prisons are no longer the grim forbidding places they used to be. Social welfare systems are in operation in many parts of the world. Big efforts are being made to distribute wealth fairly. These changes have come about not because human beings have suddenly and unaccountably improved, but because positive steps were taken to change the law. The law is the biggest instrument of social change that we have and it may exert great civilizing influence. If we banned dangerous and violent sports, we would be moving one step further to improve mankind. We would recognize that violence is degrading and unworthy of human beings. [br] The author mentioning the old Roman is______.
选项
A、to compare the old Romans with today’s people
B、to give an example
C、to show human beings in the past knew nothing better
D、to indicate human beings are used to being bloodthirsty
答案
D
解析
作者提到古罗马的意图是?人们在体育上习惯于“嗜血成性”,过去是,现在仍然是,不同点只是前者坦直承认,后者婉转掩饰。选项A把古罗马人和现代人对比,这项没有说明对比什么。选项B给出一个例子,太抽象。选项C说明过去人类不太知道更美好的东西,这两项都没有到位。
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