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【题干】A wise man once said that the only thing necessary for 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.
Days after days my men and I struggle to hold back a tidal wave of crime.
Something has gone trribly 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 1
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 restaints
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:“TIn
this farmily 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 none. He considers your property
his property; he takes what he wants, including your life if you enrage him.
The main cause of this breakdown 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 teach him with moral guidance, by the parents who didn't
prov
vide 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.

【题目】【阅读理解】19. It really upsets the author that______.
A. people in small towns stick to old discipline and standards
B. people tend to excuse criminals for their illegal behaviors
C. disadvantaged people are engaged in criminal activities
D. today's society lacks sympathy for people in diffculty

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