单选题
It is a very plain and elementary truth that the
life, the fortune and the happiness of every one of us, and, more or less, of
those who are connected with us, do depend upon our knowing something of the
rules of a game infinitely more difficult and complicated than chess. It is a
game which has been played for untold ages, every man and woman of us being one
of the two players in a game of his or her own. The chess board is the world,
the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, and the rules of the game are what
we call the laws of nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. We
know that his play is always fair, just, and patient. But also we know, to our
cost, that he never overlooks a mistake, or make the smallest allowance for
ignorance. To the man who plays well, the highest stakes are paid, with that
sort of overflowing generosity with which the strong shows delight in strength.
And one who plays ill is defeated—without haste, but without mercy.
Well, what I mean by education is learning the rules of this mighty game.
In other words, education is the instruction of the intellect in the laws of
Nature, under which name I include not merely things and their forces, but men
and their ways ; and the fashioning of the affections and of the will into an
earnest and loving desire to move in harmony with those laws. For me, education
means neither more or less than this. Anything that professes to call itself
education must be tried by this standard, and if it fails to stand the test, I
will not call it education, whatever may be the force of authority or of numbers
upon the other side. It is important to remember that, in
strictness, there is no such thing as an uneducated man. Take an extreme case.
Suppose that an adult man, in the full vigor of his faculties, could be suddenly
placed in the world, as Adam is said to have been, and then left to do as he
might. How long would he be left uneducated? Not five minutes. Nature would
begin to teach him, through the eye, the ear, the touch, the properties of
objects. Pain and pleasure at his elbow tell him to do this and avoid that; and
by slow degrees the man would receive an education, which, if narrow, would be
thorough, real, and adequate to his circumstances, though there would be no
extras and very few accomplishments.
单选题
The author compares chess to human life in that ______.
A. the rules of human life is more complicated
B. human life is a game dominated by rules
C. Nature is the hidden player against us
D. human life is full of rises and falls
【正确答案】
B
【答案解析】第一段前半部分指出，整个世界是棋盘，宇宙的各种现象是棋子，自然规律是下棋的规则。
单选题
In human life game, the player on the other side ______.