【题干】【阅读理解】The Ancient Greek philosopher Pythagoras is best known today for his mathematical theorem,which haunts the dreams of many geometry students,but for centuries he was also celebrated as the father of vegetarianism.A meatless diet was referred to as a“Pythagorean diet”for years,up until the modern vegetarian movement began in the mid-1800s.
While Pythagoras was an early proponent of a meatless diet,humans have been vegetarians since well before recorded history.Most anthropologists agree that early humans would have eaten a predominantly plant-based diet;after all,plants can’t run away.Additionally,our digestive systems resemble those of herbivores closer than carnivorous animals.Prehistoric man ate meat,of course,but plants formed the basis of his diet.
Pythagoras and his many followers practiced vegetarianism for several reasons,mainly due to religious and ethical objections.Pythagoras believed all living beings had souls.Animals were no exception,so meat and fish were banished from his table.Strangely enough,he also banished a vegetable that has a place of honor on most vegetarian menus today,the humble bean.His followers were forbidden to eat or even touch beans,because he thought beans and humans were created from the same material. Fava beans were especially bad,as they have hollow steams that could allow the souls of the dead to travel up from the soil into die growing beans.
While the edict against beans was lifted not long after Pythagoras’death,his followers continued to eat a meatless diet.His principles influenced generations of academics and religious thinkers,and it was a group of these like-minded individuals who founded the Vegetarian Society in English in the mid-1800s. The virtues of temperance,abstinence and self-control were all tied to vegetarian Ideals,while lust, drunkenness and general hooliganism all resulted from a diet too rich in meat products.Notable early vegetarians included Leo Tolstoy,George Bernard Shaw,Mahatma Gandhi and American Bronson Alcott, a Transcendentalist teacher,reformer and the father of“Little Women”author Louisa May Alcott.
It wasn’t until the1960s that vegetarianism moved into mainstream American life and the movement’s growth picked up speed in the1970s when a young graduate student named Francis Moore Lappe wrote a book called Diet for a Small Planet.In it,she advocated a meatless diet not for ethical or moral reasons,but because plant-based foods have much less impact on the environment than meat does. Today,many vegetarians refuse meat because of animal rights issues,or concerns over animal treatment,a principle first espoused in Peter Singer’s1975work Animal Liberation.
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1、[单选题]The phrase“()”exemplifies the incomplete plosion at the junction of words.
2、[单选题]The synonymous pair“()”differ in degree of formality.
3、[主观题]【简答题】根据题目要求完成下列任务,用中文作答。
反馈是教学中的重要环节之一。简述外语教学中反馈的两种主要类型,列举教师了解学生学习情况的三种途径,以便及时给予反馈。
4、[阅读理解]Which of the following statements fails to be inferred from the passage?().
A.A meatless diet was supported and practiced by Pythagoras.
B.After his death,Pythagoras1followers continued to eat beans.
C.Pythagoras influenced a lot of people who chose not to eat meat.
D.Pythagoras refused to eat any meat for religious and ethical reasons.
5、[阅读理解]Which of the following is closest in meaning to the underlined phrase“topped off”in PARAGRAPH FIVE?().
A.Filled.
B.Covered.
C.Fixed.
D.Decorated.
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