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Hank Morgan, the hero of Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, is a nineteenth-century master mechanic who mysteriously awakening in
Line sixth-century Britain, launches what he hopes will be a
peaceful revolution to transform Arthurian Britain into an industrialized modern democracy. The novel, written as a spoof of Thomas Malory's Morte d'Arthur, a popular collection of fifteenth-century legends about sixth-century Britain, has been made into three upbeat movies and two musical comedies. None of these
translations to screen and stage, however, dramatize the anarchy at the conclusion of A Connecticut Yankee, which ends with the violent overthrow of Morgan's three-year-old progressive order and his return to the nineteenth century, where he apparently commits suicide
after being labeled a lunatic for his incoherent babblings about drawbridges and battlements. The American public, although enjoying Twain's humor, evidently rejected his cynicism about technological advancement and change through peaceful revolution as antithetical to the United
States doctrine of progress.

11. It can be inferred from the passage that Mark Twain
would most probably have believed in which of the
following statements about societal change?
□A Technological advancements are limited in their
ability to change society and will likely bring
liabilities along with any potential benefits.
□B The belief in the unmitigated benefits of societal
change is antithetical to the American
doctrine of progress.
□C Technological advances and peaceful revolutions,
although sometimes accompanied by
unintended violence and resistance to societal
change, eventually lead to a more progressive order

选项B为什么不对？