The reforms treated in this book are not the well-known measures--like the abolition of slavery, the reform. of Parliament, the vote of women--which are recorded in the standard history books. Here are some of the less familiar struggles which, with one or two exceptions, social historians have tended to dismiss briefly. Yet these old controversies give no less revealing an insight into the minds of our grandfathers than do the major issues of the last century. The pulse of a generation can be taken just as effectively by considering its attitudes to the marrying of deceased wives' sisters, to the fetching of father's beer or even to the sweeping of chimneys. Some of the reforms dealt with were carried out within living memory; none is older than the nineteenth century. They have been selected for the variety of their background and for the fertility and stimulus of the opposition leveled against them.
Misguided and completely unreasonable though some of this opposition now appears, it is doubtful whether it will seem any more peculiar, one hundred years hence, than some of the reasons we produce today for continual hardship and injustice. Our ancestors thought it absurd that wives should wish to keep their own earnings; our descendants may be astonished at our system which forces a man to maintain a woman, sometimes for life, after a hopeless marriage has been disrupted. It is likely that our descendants will derive as much heartless fun from consideration of our divorce laws, and the reasons we use to defend them, as from the arguments we put forward to excuse the disfigurement of the countryside ("the poster is the poor man's art gallery"). They may also think that the indifference of the nineteenth century to death and suffering in the mills was fully matched by that of the twentieth century to death and suffering on the highways.
The author says of the reforms that we take for granted that ______.
A.it is good to consider the arguments against them
B.it is fortunate that they have been favored
C.they were against the will of the aged women
D.they were bitterly opposed by dishonest people
第3题
救生员正面接近溺水者游至()处急停,保持安全位置后并下潜至溺水者髋部以下,做下一技术动作。
A.1米左右
B.2米左右
C.3米左右
D.4米左右
第6题
当救生员背面接近溺水者时,正确的表述是:
A.救生员从溺水者后方游至背后2米左右处急停,与溺者保持距离,以防被抱持,并告知:“我是救生员,不要慌张”。
B.救生员从溺水者后方游至背后3米处急停,与溺者保持距离,以防被抱持,并告知:“我是救生员,不要慌张”。
C.救生员以正面游进至离溺水者3米处急停,与溺者保持距离,以防被抱持,并告知:“我是救生员,不要慌张”。
D.救生员从溺水者后方游至背后,迅速进行施救。
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