OG4 阅读 Q37

Choice D is the best answer. Lines 67-72("What...time") provide the best evidence that Paine would respond to Burke's statement that society is a "partnership" between past and current generations (lines 30-34,"As the...corporations of") with the explanation that the current generation cannot know what judgments the dead would make about contemporary issues. In these lines Paine explains: "What possible obligation, then, can exist between them; what rule or principle can be laid down, that two nonentities, the one out of existence, and the other not in, and who never can meet in this world, that the one should control the other to the end of time?"
Choices A, B, and C are incorrect because the lines cited do not provide the best evidence that Paine would respond to Burke's statement that society is a "partnership" between past and current generations (lines 30-34,"As the... of") by arguing that the current generation cannot know what judgments the dead would make about contemporary issues.