三月上海高级口译考试真题及答案十六
时间:2013/5/6 来源:Twin 浏览次数:1145
Why should mankind explore space? Why should money, time and effort be spent exploring, investigating and researching something with so few benefits? Why should resources be spent on space rather than on conditions under people on earth or in our own country? Perhaps the best answer lies in our genetic makeup. What drove our distant ancestors to move from the trees onto the plains? Was it the lack of skills to compete in one ecological niche? If so, the adaptation selected for after the move have resorted in the species expanding into all possible areas and environments. The drive to spread genetic material and ensure the success of not just the species but of one type of genetic material. The wider the distribution of species, the better the chance of survival. Perhaps the best reason for exploring space is the built-in genetic predisposition to expand into all possible niches. Culturally, nearly every successful civilization has been willing to explore. In its exploring, dangerous of surrounding areas may be learned and prepared for. Dangers may be political enemies and neighboring cultures. Physical features of the area are changing the area which might affect food supplies and in other number of factors. All poses a real danger, and all may be less dangerous if certain preparations are made. Without knowledge, the danger may strike and completely destroy. With knowledge, the effects or consequences may be lessened. Exploration also allows resources to be located. Resources translate into power and successes survival. Whether the success be financial, political or genetic, additional resources are always a boom when used wisely. In any of the three manners, useful resources allow the heightened percentage for survival. If the resources have no immediate need, then perhaps later, the resources will be used. Resources may be more than physical assets. Knowledge or techniques acquired an exploring or preparing to explore always filter from the developers to the general populace. Techniques may be medical applications, uses for drugs or ways of living to increase the quantity of time lived or the quality of that time. Techniques maybe social, allowing the people in the society to better understand those within or outside the culture. Better understanding may lead to better use of resources or a lessening of outright competition for the resources. While many resources are spent on what seems of small return, the exploration of space allows the creative, the brave, the intelligent our species to focus on what may serve to save us. While space may hold many wonders and explanations of how the universe was formed or how it works, it also holds dangers. The chance of a large asteroid or comet hitting the earth is small, but given time, it will happen. Several current models of evolution propose many changes in a very short time period. Some explanations for the drastic speed of extinction and evolution includes strikes by asteroids or comets. Human technology is reaching the point where it might be able to detect such a threat and allow us to do something about it. The danger exists, but knowledge can allow us, other species, to survive. Without the ability to reach out across space, the chance to save ourselves might not exist. While earth is the only planet known to sustain life, surely the adaptive ability of humans would allow other planets and moons to be common habited. True, the life style would be different, but human life and cultures have adapted in the past and surely could in the future. Our genetic makeup will allow humans to move into unoccupied niches and flourish. The culture group holding the high ground has attended great advantage over other groups. It can see farther, act sooner and be safer from attack. In space, all of these things are true. The culture which expands is like an organism which adapts. It may be found everywhere. If one group is eliminated, the species as a whole, survives. The old adage, “Do not put all your eggs in one basket!” holds true for humans and cultures. The more culture expands, the less chance of it becoming extinct. Space allows us to expand and succeed.
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