2021年6月大学英语六级阅读练习题佛教.docVIP

2021年6月大学英语六级阅读练习题佛教 【导语】英语四六级考试将要在202*年6月进行，日常的备考，听说读写都要关注，其中阅读理解是考生复习的重点和难点，日常备考需要加强英文阅读练习，下面是小编四六级频道为大家整理的《202*年6月大学英语六级阅读练习题:佛教》一文，希望给大家带来帮助。 　202*年6月大学英语六级阅读精练50篇汇总 　　英语六级阅读理解精炼第22篇，练习佛教，含有六级阅读练习题，参考译文，答案等内容。供正在准备英语六级考试的学习者参考学习。 　　22. buddhism 　　buddhism is the only important foreign religious influence that has become part and parcel2 of chinese life. the influence is so deep that we now speak of children’s dolls, and sometimes the children themselves, as“ little buddha ”, and the empress dowager3 herself was addressed as“old buddha”. the goddess of mercy and the laughing buddha 4 have become chinese household words. buddhism has affected our language , our food, our arts, our sculpture and directly inspired the characteristic pagoda5 . it has stimulated our literature and our whole world of imagination. the little monkish figure, with his bald head and his gray robes, forms an intimate part of any panorama of society, and buddhist temples, rather than those of confucius, are the center of the town and village life, where the elders gather to decide on6 village matters and annual celebrations. its monks and nuns penetrate the privacies of chinese households, on all occasions of births, deaths and weddings, as no other persons are allowed to do, and hardly a widow or virgin can be seduced , according to the chinese novels, without the help of these religious figures. 　　buddhism has conquered china as a philosophy and as a religion, as a philosophy for the scholars and as a religion for the common people. whereas confucianism has only a philosophy of moral conduct, buddhism possesses a logical method, a metaphysics7 , and a theory of knowledge . besides, it is fortunate in having a high tradition of scholarship in the translations of buddhist classics, and the language of these translations, so succinct and often so distinguished by a beautiful lucidity of language and reasoning, cannot but attract scholars with a philosophical bias. hence buddhism has always en