People like being trusted. They are annoyed, angry, or feel hurt if they are

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问题     People like being trusted. They are annoyed, angry, or feel hurt if they are regarded with【C1】______. They think that they are【C2】______an injustice. They like being trusted for two reasons: (1) It is a tribute to their honesty, truth, strength,【C3】______, kindness and good character; (2) They find it easier to cheat others. These two【C4】______suggest what our attitude towards trust in【C5】______should be. It is not a simple attitude. We must keep a balance between two【C6】______over suspiciousness and infantile naivety.
    A parallel to our trust in people could be our trust in natural【C7】______. However careful we are, we cannot guarantee【C8】______safety for ourselves in the physical world, yet we act as【C9】______we can trust an ordered series of physical events. We take the bus to work in the morning【C10】______that we will arrive safely at our office or school. We have no【C11】______that we will. The bus could be【C12】______in an accident.
    If we were to【C13】______every accident that might happen to us we would never do anything. We would just remain sitting at home. Even then we could never be absolutely【C14】______that the ceiling would not collapse on us.【C15】______we are to do anything at all, we must take risks. Of course we try to reduce risks to a【C16】______.
    Similarly with regard to people, trusting them involves taking the risk of being【C17】______. Not trusting them places us outside the area of community activity,【C18】______trust is an essential bond in community living. In a competitive, materialistic world it would be【C19】______to trust everyone in everything. However, we should widen the area of trust as far as possible. We cannot eliminate all risks in such trust【C20】______we should lessen them as far as possible by reliance on intelligence and experience of our own and those of adults whose reliability has been proven. [br] 【C14】

选项 A、certain
B、doubtful
C、suspicious
D、indifferent

答案 A

解析 此句是说,我们不能完全确保天花板不会塌下来砸到我们。根据句意,此处是否定句意,空前的never提示此处应填一表肯定的单词,[A]certain“确信”与文意相符,故为答案。[B]和[C]为同义词,意为“怀疑的,不确定的”,故均排除;[D]indifferent通常与to搭配使用,其后不能接宾语从句,故排除。
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