【正确答案】 B

【答案解析】细节题。按照题日顺序及选项内容定位至第四段。首句指出：Landes does not argue that Europeans were beneficent bearers of civilization to a benighted world，[A]与此矛盾，排除。第二句指出欧洲扩张的原因：When one group is strong enough to push another around and stands to gain by it, it will do so．[B]符合文意，故为答案。第三句中的“specific cultural values enabled technological advances”表明[C]不符合文意， [D]未提及，排除。