单选题In the eyes of the author, the greatest trouble with the US society may lay in ______.Athe non-existence of consensus on the forms of the society should takeBthe lack of divergence over the common organizations of social lifeCthe non-acceptance of a society based on individual diversityDthe pervasive distress caused by national morale decline
单选题
In the eyes of the author, the greatest trouble with the US society may lay in ______.
A
the non-existence of consensus on the forms of the society should take
B
the lack of divergence over the common organizations of social life
C
the non-acceptance of a society based on individual diversity
D
the pervasive distress caused by national morale decline
参考解析
解析：
细节理解题与词义理解题的结合。答案出自第一段: What our society suffers from most today is the absence of consensus about what it and life in it ought to be. A选项中的the non-existence of consensus即原文中的the absence of consensus。
细节理解题与词义理解题的结合。答案出自第一段: What our society suffers from most today is the absence of consensus about what it and life in it ought to be. A选项中的the non-existence of consensus即原文中的the absence of consensus。
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Social change is more likely to occur in societies where there is a mixture of different kinds of people than in societies where people are similar in many ways. The simple reason for this is that there are more different ways of looking at things present in the first kind of society. There are more ideas, more disagreements in interest, and more groups and organizations with different beliefs. In addition, there is usually a greater worldly interest and greater tolerance in mixed societies. All these factors tend to protnote social change by opening more areas of life to decision.In a society where people are quite similar in many ways, there are fewer occasions for people to see the need or the opportunity for change because everything seems to be the same. And although conditions may not be satisfactory, they are at least customary and undisputed.Within a society, social changes is also likely to occur more frequently and more readily in the material aspects of the culture than in the non-material, for example, in technology rather than in values; in what has been learned later in life rather than what was learned early; in the less basic and less emotional aspects of society than in their opposites; in the simple elements rather than in the complex ones; in form rather than in substance; and in elements that are acceptable to the culture rather than in strange elements.Furthermore, social change is easier if it is gradual. For example, it comes more readily in human relations on a continuous scale rather than one with sharp difference. This is one reason why change has not come more quickly to Black Americans as compared to other American minorities,because of the sharp difference in appearance between them and their white counterparts.?Social change is less likely to occur in a society where people are quite similar in many ways because__________.A.people there have got so accustomed to their conditions that they seldom think it necessary to changeB.people there have identical needs that can be satisfied without much difficultyC.people there are easy to pleaseD.people there are less disputed
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