OG4 阅读 Q36

Choice B is the best answer. In lines 30-34("As ...of"), Burke describes societal con-tracts as long-term agreements that preserve the interests of past generations and link the living and the dead into a "partnership." Paine, however, states that past generations have no "control" over the decisions made by living (line 71,"world,...of time") because the dead have "no longer any participation in the concerns of this world" (lines 59-60,"his ...of this world").
Choices A, C, and D are incorrect because they do not accurately characterize how Paine would respond to Burke's claim that societal contracts link past and current generations.