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Campaigning on the Indian frontier is an experience by itself.Neither the landscape nor the people find their counterparts

in any other portion of the globe.Valley walls rise steeply five or six thousand feet on every side.The columns crawl through

a maze of giant corridors down which fierce snow-fed torrents foam under skies of brass.Amid these scenes of savage

brilliancy there dwells a race whose qualities seem to harmonize with their environment.Except at harvest time,when

self-preservation requires a temporary truce,the Pathan tribes are always engaged in private or public war.Every man is a

warrior,a politician and a theologian.Every large house is a real feudal fortress made,it is true,only of sun-baked clay,but

with battlements,turrets,loopholes,drawbridges,etc.complete.Every village has its defence.Every family cultivates its

vendetta;every clan,its feud.The numerous tribes and combinations of tribes all have their accounts to settle with one

another.Nothing is ever forgotten,and?very few debts are left unpaid.For the purposes of social life,in addition to the

convention about harvest-time,a most elaborate code of honour has been established and is on the whole faithfully observed.A man who knew it and observed it faultlessly might pass unarmed from one end of the frontier to another.The slightest

technical slip would,however,be fatal.The life of the Pathan is thus full of interest;and his valleys,nourished alike by endless sunshine and abundant water,are fertile enough to yield with little labour the modest material requirements of a sparse

population.

Into this happy world the nineteenth century brought two new facts:the rifle and the British Government.The first was an enormous luxury and blessing;the second,an unmitigated nuisance.The convenience of the rifle was nowhere more

appreciated than in the Indian highlands.A weapon which would kill with accuracy at fifteen hundred

A.put an end to a whole series of quarrels
B.prevented the Pathans from carrying on feuds
C.lessened the subsidies paid to the Pathans
D.gave the Pathans a much quieter life

正确答案及解析

正确答案

解析

本题考查推断。

倒数第二句“All along the road people were expected to keep quiet, not to shoot one another, and above all not to shoot at

travelers along the road”可知英国人筑路使得当地部落不能随意穿越公路攻打自己的敌人，客观上对于消除部落之间的世仇宿怨起了推动作用，综上，B选项正确。

第三段谈到英国人筑路带来的后果。末句指出：“a whole series of quarrels took their origin from this source.”可见筑路不但没能阻止争吵的发生，反而成为矛盾产生的原因，故排除A；第七句指出：“They sought to ensure the safety of these roads by

threats, by forts and by subsidies.”可知英国人采用包括提供补助津贴在内的形式来确保公路的安全，但并不是减少补助，故排除C；

D项属于对此句的字面理解，故排除。

故正确答案为B项。