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阅读理解 About 2,400 years ago in Athens a man was put to death for asking too many questions. If philosophy has a patron saint (领航者), it is Socrates. Shabby and a bit strange, Socrates did not fit in. Although physically ugly and often unwashed, he had great charm and a brilliant mind. Everyone in Athens agreed that there had never been anyone quite like him and probably wouldn't be again. He was unique. As a young man, he had been a brave soldier fighting in the Peloponnesian War against the Spartans and their allies. In middle age, he wandered around the marketplace, stopping people from time to time and asking them awkward questions. That was more or less all he did. But the questions he asked were razor-sharp. Over and over again Socrates demonstrated that the people he met in the marketplace didn't really know what they thought they knew. A military commander would begin a conversation totally confident that he knew what "courage" meant, but after 20 minutes in Socrates' company, he would leave completely confused. The experience must have been disconcerting. Socrates loved to reveal the limits of what people genuinely understood, and to question the assumptions on which they built their lives. The word "philosopher" comes from the Greek words meaning "love of wisdom". The kind of wisdom that it values is based on argument, reasoning and asking questions, not on believing things simply because someone important has told you they are true. Wisdom for Socrates was not knowing lots of facts, but knowing how to do something. It meant understanding the true nature of our existence, including the limits of what we can know. Philosophers today are doing more or less what Socrates was doing: asking tough questions, looking at reasons and evidence, struggling to answer some of the most important questions we can ask ourselves about the nature of reality and how we should live. （1） What can we learn about Socrates? A . He always dressed himself properly and neatly. B . He used to be an anti-war activist when young. C . He had a sharp mind and the spirit of insistence. D . He was enthusiastic about bargaining in the supermarket. （2） What does the underlined word " disconcerting" in Paragraph 4 mean? A . Awesome. B . Enjoyable. C . Disturbing. D . Risky. （3） What is the wisdom from philosophy? A . Learning to argue, reason and ask. B . Having faith in what experts told you. C . Figuring out how to solve the question. D . Managing to have access to lots of facts. （4） Which column is the passage taken from? A . Politics. B . Economy. C . Society. D . Culture. 答案： C C A D

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