Everyone of us lives and works on a
small part of the earth's surface, moves in a small circle, and of these
acquaintances knows only a few intimately. Of any public event that has wide
effects we see at best only a phase and an aspect. This is true that the eminent
insiders, who draft treaties, make laws, and issue orders, are like those who
have treaties framed on them, laws promulgated to them, orders given at them.
Inevitably our opinions cover a bigger space, a longer reach of time, many
things, that we can directly observe. So they have to be pieced together out of
what others have reported and what we can imagine. Yet even the eyewitness does
not bring back a naive picture of the scene. For experience seems to show that
he himself brings something to the scene which later he takes away from it, that
oftener than not what he imagines to be the account of an event is really a
transfiguration of it. Few facts in consciousness seem to be merely given. Most
facts in consciousness seem to be partly made. A report is the joint product of
the knower and known, in which the role of the observer is always selective and
usually creative. The facts we see depend on where we are placed, and the habits
of our eyes.
单选题
The limited time and space which man occupies suggest, according to the paragraph,
单选题
The word "naive" in "a naive picture of the scene" most likely means
【正确答案】
C
【答案解析】[解析] naive这里指pure and reliable这里意为完全是本来面目，没有任何后天添加的东西，是事物的原状。
单选题
The latter part of the paragraph suggests that individual consciousness of the phenomenal world
【正确答案】
C
【答案解析】[解析] 个人对感观世界的认识。选项A：总是谬误。错误，过于绝对。选项B：总是可信赖的。错误，that oftener than not what he imagines to be the account of an event is really a transfiguration of it. 经常发生的情况是他们对事件的描叙是美化加工后的情况。选项C：主观世界和客观世界的混合。正确，从文章推断，Few facts in consciousness seem to be merely given．Most facts in consciousness seem to be partly made．选项D：准确地反映世界的本来面目。错误，与文章不符。
单选题
By "selective" and "creative", the author means that the observer of an event