What ultimately holds people back from attaining their ideals is ________.
第1题
Days after clays my men and I struggle to hold back a tidal wave of crime. Something has gone terribly wrong with our once-proud American way of life. It has happened in the area of values. A key ingredient is disappearing, and I think I know what it is: accountability.
Accountability isn' t hard to define. It means that every person is responsible for his or her actions and liable for their consequences.
Of the many values that hold civilization together honesty, kindness, and so on accountability may be the most important of all. Without it, there can be no respect, no trust, no law and, ultimately, no society.
My job as a police officer is to impose accountability on people who refuse, or have never learned, to impose it on themselves. But as every policeman knows, external controls on people's behavior. are far less effective than internal restraints such as guilt, shame and embarrassment.
Fortunately there are still communities smaller towns, usually where schools maintain discipline and where parents hold up standards that proclaim: "In" this family certain things are not tolerated they simply are not done!
Yet more and more, especially in our larger cities and suburbs, these inner restraints are loosening. Your typical robber has gone. He considers your property his property; he takes what he wants, including your life if you enrage him.
The main cause of this break-down is a radical shift in attitudes. Thirty years ago, if a crime was committed, society was considered the victim. Now, in a shocking reversal, it's the criminal who is considered victimized: by his underprivileged upbringing, by the school that didn' t teach him to read, by the church that failed to reach him with moral guidance, by the parents who didn't provide a stable home.
I don't believe it. Many others in equally disadvantaged circumstances choose not to engage in criminal activities. If we free the criminal, even partly, from accountability, we become a society of endless excuses where no one accepts responsibility for anything.
We in America desperately need more people who believe that the person who commits a crime is the one responsible for it.
What the wise man said suggests that______.
A.it' s unnecessary for good people to do anything in face of evil
B.it' s certain that evil will prevail if good men do nothing about it
C.it' s only natural for virtue to defeat evil
D.it's desirable for good men to keep away from evil
第2题
What does the author suggest by referring to the lesson of personal computers?
A.GM food will ultimately enter into the diet of commons.
B.GM food is similar to personal computers in some aspects.
C.Like personal computers, GM food will become indispensable to people.
D.GM food is one of the achievements of high technology.
第5题
A.The woman is going to hold a big party tomorrow.
B.The man has no idea what the right thing to do is.
C.The woman doesn't know how to get to the party.
D.The man offers to drive the woman to the party.
第6题
A、No, he is not there.
B、Yes, what do you want?
C、Hold on、I’ll get him.
D、Yes, Tom is me.
第7题
Which of the following views is consistent with what the developmentalists hold?
A.Children are more influenced by their peers than by their parents.
B.Twins are quite different if they are reared in two separate families.
C.Identical twins reared in the same home are different in personality.
D.Nurture has a less significant effect on children's personality development.
第9题
A、Hold on. I’ll get her
B、No, she isn’t here
C、Yes, she lives here
D、Yes, what do you want
第10题
What effect will Facebooks failure in the market have?
A.Its users benefits will be threatened.
B.Talented hackers will take down the website.
C.The CEO will hold the super-voting stock.
D.The companys innovation strength will be damaged.