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2017年6月英语四级阅读理解100篇精析（25）
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2017年6月英语四级阅读理解100篇精析汇总
Though England was on the whole prosperous and hopeful, though by
comparison with her neighbors she enjoyed internal peace, she could not evade
the fact that the world of which she formed a part was torn by hatred and strife
as fierce as any in human history. Men were still for from recognizing that two
religions could exist side by side in the same society; they believed that the
toleration of another religion different from their own. And hence necessarily
false, must inevitably destroy such a society and bring the souls of all its
members into danger of hell. So the struggle went on with increasing fury within
each nation to impose a single creed upon every subject, and within the general
society of Christendom to impose it upon every nation. In England the Reformers,
or Protestants, aided by the power of the Crown, had at this stage triumphed,
but over Europe as a whole Rome was beginning to recover some of the ground it
had lost after Martin Luther’s revolt in the earlier part of the century. It did
this in two ways, by the activities of its missionaries, as in parts of Germany,
or by the military might of the Catholic Powers, as in the Low Countries, where
the Dutch provinces were sometimes near their last extremity under the pressure
of Spanish arms. Against England, the most important of all the Protestant
nations to reconquer, military might was not yet possible because the Catholic
Powers were too occupied and divided: and so, in the 1570’s Rome bent her
efforts, as she had done a thousand years before in the days of Saint Augustine,
to win England back by means of her missionaries.
These were young Englishmen who had either never given up the old faith, or
having done so, had returned to it and felt called to become priests. There
being, of course, no Catholic seminaries left in England, they went abroad, at
first quite easily, later with difficulty and danger, to study in the English
colleges at Douai or Rome: the former established for the training of ordinary
or secular clergy, the other for the member of the Society of Jesus, commonly
known as Jesuits, a new Order established by St, Ignatius Loyola same thirty
years before. The seculars came first; they achieved a success which even the
most eager could hardly have expected. Cool-minded and well-informed men, like
Cecil, had long surmised that the conversion of the English people to
Protestantism was for from complete; many—Cecil thought even the majority—had
conformed out of fear, self-interest or—possibly the commonest reason of
all—sheer bewilderment at the rapid changes in doctrine and forms of worship
imposed on them in so short a time. Thus it happened that the missionaries found
a welcome, not only with the families who had secretly offered them hospitality
if they came, but with many others whom their first hosts invited to meet them
or passed them on to. They would land at the ports in disguise, as merchants,
courtiers or what not, professing some plausible business in the country, and
make by devious may for their first house of refuge. There they would administer
the Sacraments and preach to the house holds and to such of the neighbors as
their hosts trusted and presently go on to some other locality to which they
were directed or from which they received a call.
1. The main idea of this passage is
[A]. The continuity of the religious struggle in Britain in new ways.
[B]. The conversion of religion in Britain.
[C]. The victory of the New religion in Britain.
[D]. England became prosperous.
2. What was Martin Luther’s religions?
[A]. Buddhism. [B]. Protestantism. [C]. Catholicism. [D]. Orthodox.
3. Through what way did the Rome recover some of the lost land?
[A]. Civil and military ways. [B]. Propaganda and attack.
[C]. Persuasion and criticism. [D]. Religious and military ways.
4. What did the second paragraph mainly describe?
[A]. The activities of missionaries in Britain.
[B]. The conversion of English people to Protestantism was far from
complete.
[C]. The young in Britain began to convert to Catholicism
[D]. Most families offered hospitality to missionaries.
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