必修③ Module 6 Old and New 单元主题语篇训练（Word练习）-【创新方案】2024高考英语一轮复习（老教材 新高考 外研版）

第1页共5页 多学科网书城四 品牌书店·知名教辅·正版资源 b2 xxk.com● 您身边的互联网+教辅专家 必修③Module6单元主题语篇训练 1.阅读理解 A History never stops moving.It develops and it is fluid ()What history looks like today is different from what it looked like a hundred years ago,and what today's history in the making looks like now may be seen differently just 20 years from now. When combing the past and the present for a list such as the 100 People Who Changed the World,there are criteria to consider,to be sure,but there are no hard and fast rules.There are judgments to be made,but there are no certain truths.Our list was less a hardened document than a current collection-a collection of men and women who,for better and sometimes for worse,have made a clear mark on our civilization.Such a list is by necessity subjective and open to delicious debate. But while history may be fluid,it does tend to be clarified over time.The significance of Aristotle or Catherine the Great is easy to see from here.And certainly,the importance of some of history's great characters such as Mother Teresa and Pablo Picasso was apparent to their contemporaries.Others were largely invisible in their own time.Their contributions were realized only long after they were gone:Karl Marx died in 1883,many years before his writings would inspire powerful communist societies;Alan Turing,who died lonely and painful,is now regarded as the brilliant father of the computer. Perhaps the most interesting part of this exercise is thinking about the final impact of present-day figures.Steve Jobs makes the list by virtue of his influence on high tech and our daily lives.But what of Mark Zuckerberg?His impact is huge,and he has made it possible for billions of people to come together.But the social media site has also made it easier to drive society apart,upsetting the news business. Will the moment last?Only time will tell.History will move unavoidably forward;our questions today will have answers tomorrow.And lists like these will change -again and again a