...if Hitler imagines that his attack on Soviet Russia will cause the slightest divergen
A. grave
B. sepulchral
C. terrible fate
D. barge
A. grave
B. sepulchral
C. terrible fate
D. barge
This passage mainly deals with Hitler's ______.
A.impact on our thinking about good and evil
B.crimes in World War Ⅱ
C.racial convictions
D.importance in world history
Adolf Hitler was guilty of enormous crimes against______ . He must be notorious for ever.
A.humidity
B.humanity
C.hospitality
D.hypothesis
"This distinction" in the last paragraph refers to the fact that Hitler ______.
A.killed far more people than Genghis Khan did
B.was not so savage as Genghis Khan was
C.came from modern civilization while Genghis Khan was not
D.was more civilized than Genghis Khan was
What did Beethoven, Gothe and Schiller have in common with Hitler?
A.They were all evil people.
B.They were all civilized people.
C.They lived in the same time and had similar beliefs.
D.They were all from Germany, a civilized society.
The writer mentions the examples of Hitler and Mussolini to show that ______.
A.even the most cultured nation could produce dictators
B.massive popular support does not guarantee truth
C.they had the power of arousing people's emotion
D.they were both good at using faulty logic
History teaches my grandfather's aunt family that ______.
A.they would be killed by Hitler in their fate
B.Jewish people would be unwelcome in the history
C.my grandfather's aunt was totally wrong
D.they were wrong and they should believe my grandfather's aunt
Which has the greater impact, good or evil, the heroes or the villains (坏人), Roosevelt and Churchill or Hitler? To what extent do they depend on each other, when threats produce resolve, when terror(产生,酿成) engenders courage, when an Ultimate challenge to principle has the effect of making principles stronger, forging them by fire.'? Thoughtful people want to understand what made Hitler strong and what finally killed him; and search, perhaps, for a vaccine for the virus that reappears still in ethnic enclaves, on websites, in the wilderness camps of skinhead anarchists and in the halls of Columbine High School, where two boys celebrated Hitler's birthday with a memorial massacre of children.
If all Hitler had done was killing people in vast numbers more efficiently than anyone else every did, the debate over his lasting importance might end there. But Hitler's impact went beyond his willingness to kill without mercy. He did something civilization that had not seen before. Genghis Khan operated in the context of the nomadic steppe, where pillaging(抢劫,掠夺) villages was the norm, Hitler came out of the most civilized society on Earth, the land of Beethoven and Goethe and Schiller. He set out to kill people net for what they did but for who they were.
It is this distinction that pulls us right into the heart of the question. And that is our long, modern conversation over the nature of evil. The debate goes back to Socrates, who argued that anyone who was acquainted with good could not intentionally choose evil instead. Enlightenment thinkers went further, pushing concepts of good and ceil into the realm(领域,范畴) of superstition. But Hitler changed that. It was he, perhaps more than any other figure, who demanded a whole rethinking about good, evil, God and man.
The massacre at Columbine High School serves as an example of ______.
A.Hitler's influence among contemporary youths
B.the evil nature of man
C.the virus of hatred in man
D.unexpected challenges to civilized life
It is difficult to imagine ______(没有必须工作的社会).
You cannot imagine how I feel ________ with my duties sometimes.
A.overthrown
B.overwhelmed
C.overflowed
D.overturned
A.He tried to imagine himself in her place.
B.He tried not to notice it.
C.He pretended he had toothache.
D.He behaved himself as well as possible.