穆宁，怀州河内人也。父元休，以文学著。撰《洪范外传》十篇，开元中献之。玄宗赐帛，授偃师县丞、安阳令。

    宁清慎刚正，重交游，以气节自任。少以明经调授盐山尉。是时，安禄山始叛，伪署刘道玄为景城守，宁唱义起兵，斩道玄首。传檄郡邑，多有应者。贼将史思明来寇郡，宁以摄东光令将兵御之。思明遣使说诱，宁立斩之。郡惧贼怨深，恐后大兵至，夺宁兵及摄县。初，宁佐采访使巡按，尝过平原，与太守颜真卿密揣禄山必叛。至是，真卿亦唱义，举郡兵以拒禄山。会间使持书遗真卿曰：“夫子为卫君乎?”更无他词。真卿得书大喜，因奏署大理评事、河北采访支使。宁以长子属母弟曰：“惟尔所适，苟不乏嗣，吾无累矣。”因往平原，谓真卿曰：“先人有嗣矣！古所谓死有轻于鸿毛者，宁是也。愿佐公以定危难。”真卿深然之。其后，宁计或不行，真卿迫蹙，弃郡，夜渡河而南，见肃宗于凤翔。帝问拒贼之状真卿曰臣不用穆宁之言功业不成帝奇之发驿召宁将以右职待之会真卿以抗直失旨事遂止。

    上元二年，累官至殿中侍御史，佐盐铁转运使。副元帅李光弼以饷运不继而愠，或恶宁者，诬谮于光弼，光弼宣言欲杀宁。宁直抵徐州见光弼，喻以大义。光弼深重之，宁得行其职。广德初，加库部郎中。是时河运不通，漕挽由汉、沔自商山达京师，选镇夏口者，诏以宁为鄂州刺史、鄂岳沔都团练使。时淮西节度使李忠臣贪不奉法，设防戍以税商贾，又纵兵士剽劫，行人殆绝。与宁夹淮为理，惮宁威名，寇盗辄止。沔州别驾薛彦伟坐事忤旨，宁杖之致死。宁坐贬虔州司马，重贬昭州平集尉。

宁强毅，不能事权贵。执政者以为不附已，且惮其难制，故处之散位。宁默默不得志，且曰：“时不我容，我不时殉，则非吾之进也，在于退乎！”辞病居家，请告几十旬者数矣。亲友强之，复一朝请。后德宗还京师，宁曰：“可以遂吾意矣。”因移病，欣然罢归东都。

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。

     The idea of inventing an international language is not a new one. Over the past 180 years, linguists (语言学家) have created over ten different languages that are based on German, Spanish, and English. One of these was Basic English.

     By 1923 the First World War had been over for five years, but Europe was still recovering from its effects. Charles Kay Ogden, a linguist and writer, was running several bookshops in Cambridge. He published The Meaning of Meaning (1923), a book describing how we use language. The book received high praise, which drove Ogden to design an international language — something that was much simpler than English. In 1930 Ogden's book Basic English: A General Introduction with Rules and Grammar was published.

     Perhaps it takes about seven years for one to become a good English speaker. Ogden believed that Basic English could be learned in seven weeks. There were only 850 words and the grammar was very simple.

     The language attracted the attention of educators all over the world, but its development was stopped by the Second World War. After the war, both the British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and the President of the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt looked for ideas that might bring world peace. They both gave speeches that encouraged the use of Ogden's international language. In the past 60 years, the language has had some success. In some parts of East Asia, teachers are still using Ogden's word lists.

     However, in the main, the language has disappeared. Because there are many more non-native than native speakers of English, recently some linguists have asked whether we should give careful consideration to Ogden's ideas again. And the Wikipedia website (www.wikipedia.org) has started a version (版本) written in Basic English for non-native learners of the language. Search for it on the Internet now!  

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