Ⅱ. Each of the passages below is followed by some questions. For ach question four answers
are given. Read the passages carefully and chnose the best answer to each of the questions.
Put your choice in the ANSWER SHEET. (30 poinb)
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A wise man once said that the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to
do nothing. So, as a police officer, I have some urgent things to say to good people.
Day after day 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--account-
ability 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 polioe 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
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