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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 office

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问题      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.
     Days after days my men and I struggle to hold back a tidal wave of crime. Something has gone terribly wrung 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 suburbs, these inner restraints are loosening. Your typical robber has none. He considers your 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.
Compared with those in small towns, people in large cities have
选项 A、less self-discipline.
B、better sense of discipline.
C、more mutual respect.
D、less effective government.
答案A
解析 本题考查细节。我们可以直接找到它在文章中的位置。文章的第七段第一句说：“Yet more and more，especially in our large cities and suburbs，these inner restraints are loosening．(大城市里的人对自己的约束越来越松)”，而选项A 与原文吻合。
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