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The attitude that intolerance is an evil is especially strong in Britain, w
The attitude that intolerance is an evil is especially strong in Britain, w
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The attitude that intolerance is an evil is especially strong in Britain, where tolerance has been elevated into the Great National virtue. We believe ourselves to be unique among nations in our generosity of spirit and our readiness to put up with all kinds of people. Listen to any public debate or radio phone-in about immigration and you will hear people reiterating this view. Only the British, they say, would have allowed so many black and brown people into their country, would have treated them so well, given them jobs, put them on the National Health Service, and so on. And this, they conclude, is why no more of them should be allowed in.
Their conclusion, of course, gives the game away, for the tolerance they are talking about does not in fact exist but is invented as a justification for present intolerance. It is a thoroughly hypocritical posture which makes one wonder whether British claims to being especially tolerant have any validity at all.
What is called tolerance by the British may often be just unassertiveness or timidity, for it is true that most English people do not relish public rows or confrontations and will go to some lengths to avoid them. But this does not mean they are particularly indulgent to other people’s behaviour. Do anything out of the ordinary--give a party, for example--and your neighbours will soon begin to bare their teeth.
The British tend to be very critical of Continental drivers, whom they accuse of uncontrolled aggressiveness. But while British drivers may be rather more reliable about sticking to the rules of the road, they are dangerously intolerant of other drivers who, in their view, are doing things they shouldn’t be doing. I myself may sometimes be incompetent or a bit too pushy as a driver but I have often been a victim of verbal abuse and terrifying revenge manoeuvres quite out of proportion to any offence that I may have committed. In fact, I am much more frightened of British drivers than I am of French or Italian ones, for you can at least be reasonably confident with the latter that, unlike the British, they are not prepared to die--and take you with them--in order to prove a point.
British attitudes to bad habits like drinking also tend to be intolerant and are getting more so. I was shocked to hear on the radio this week that personnel officers, people whose task is to care for the workers, had revealed in a survey that many of them would like to see drinking at lunchtime forbidden and made grounds for dismissal. The whole idea of telling people when they should be allowed to drink, a principle enshrined in the licensing laws, is of its nature profoundly intolerant. [br] According to the radio program mentioned in the last paragraph, personnel officers ______.
选项
A、made a survey on workers’ attitude toward drinking at lunchtime
B、found that workers didn’t like to be forbidden from drinking at lunchtime
C、agreed that workers should be fired for drinking at lunchtime
D、thought it intolerant to tell workers when they should not drink
答案
C
解析
最后一段说在一个广播节目中一些人事官员在一项调查中表示希望禁止工人在午餐时喝酒,并且可以以此为由解雇工人,因此选C。
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