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  3. 　　As a bewildered country blinks in the tentative daylight of freedom after nearly a year and a half of unprecedented restrictio

　　As a bewildered country blinks in the tentative daylight of freedom after nearly a year and a half of unprecedented restrictio

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问题 　　As a bewildered country blinks in the tentative daylight of freedom after nearly a year and a half of unprecedented restrictions, a wider struggle to restore our sacred freedoms is surely overdue. Despite attempts by some commentators to brand Boris Johnson a "libertarian"—in practice he is a man who cherishes freedoms only for his own class—his is a nakedly authoritarian government.
　　And while the liberal conception of the state is that it is blind to the characteristics of its citizens, in reality it is riddled with prejudice. In "normal" times, Black people are nine times more likely to be stopped and searched by the police for instance over suspicion of possessing drugs, and far more likely to be sent to prison for drag offenses than white offenders. So it is no surprise that the government’s sweeping powers during the pandemic were applied through a racist prism. Under the Coronavirus Act, polices were granted the power to remove or detain any " suspected infectious person"—in other words, anyone. Yet during the first lockdown,every single person that this measure was used against in England and Wales was wrongfully charged.
　　More disturbingly, the government’s policing bill puts lockdown-era authoritarianism on a permanent footing, enabling the police to suppress protests deemed noisy or a nuisance. "You can’t legislate away people’s right to protest," as Gracie Bradley of Liberty puts it, "and it creates way more confrontation between protesters and police. " Meanwhile, a new elections bill infringes on the right to vote by introducing a requirement to show voter ID, in a bid to tackle the near nonexistent problem of voter fraud. The result is that disproportionately minority and working-class Britons without photo ID will be deprived the most basic democratic right.
　　The worry in tackling this government on civil liberties is that the strategy becomes defensive: an attempt to restore the illiberal status quo of the recent past, rather than demand a truly free society. Acknowledging the racism embedded in the practice of arbitrary police power should lead us to demand the scrapping of section 60 of the 1994 Public Order Act, since it allows stop and searches without any actual suspicion of a crime. Rather than the mass communications surveillance regime in place now, we should support Liberty’s call for a warrant-based system. Rather than criminalizing homelessness through the 19th-century Vagrancy Act, we should treat housing as a fundamental social right and act accordingly.
　　We were promised "Freedom day" in England but ours is a society wrapped in chains. Rather than loosening those chains, we should demand their removal altogether.
The word "riddled"  ( Line 2, Para. 2) is closest in meaning to _________
选项 A、substituted
B、brought
C、filled
D、blended
答案C
解析 词义题。根据题干可定位至第二段第一句，由其后的例子可知，黑人频繁地受到不公平待遇，因此可以推测出be riddled with有“充满”的意思，即现实中充满着偏见，故选项C正确；选项A、选项B和选项D可以和with搭配，但意思不符合上下文，故排除。
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