单选题 Which of the following best states the central idea of the passage?

A、 The Byzantine Empire was a unique case in which the usual order of military and economic revival preceding cultural revival was reversed.
B、 The economic, cultural, and military revival in the Byzantine Empire between the eighth and eleventh centuries was similar in its order to the sequence of revivals in August Rome and fifth - century Athens.
C、 The revival of the Byzantine Empire between the eighth and eleventh centuries shows cultural rebirth preceding economic and military revival, the reverse of the commonly accepted order of progress.
D、 The eighth -century revival of Byzantine learning is an inexplic,~ ie phenomenon, and its economic and military precursors have yet to be discovered.

【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】[参考译文] 下面哪一句最恰当地陈述了本文的中心思想? [试题分析] 本题考查学生分析问题及把握文章中心思想的能力。 [详细解答] 选项A说明拜占庭帝国是军事、经济、文化复兴逆序出现的唯一例子。文中并没有“唯一性”的字眼。选项B说明三者在拜占庭帝国的出现次序与其在古希腊、罗马的出现次序一样，与作者观点不符。C说明8至11世纪之间拜占庭帝国的复兴中，文化复兴先于经济、军事复兴产生，和一般的复兴顺序相反，符合文章结尾的叙述，故而正确。D说明8世纪拜占庭文化复兴是不可解释的现象，其经济、军事的先导还有待发展，不符合作者的说法。作者认为文化复兴是其他两种复兴的先导。