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] 【C15】

选项 A、Unless
B、If
C、Lest
D、Before

答案 B

解析 根据上下文可知,本句意为:只要我们想做点什么,就得担风险,由此可知本空所填词应引导条件状语从句,表“如果”之意,故答案为[B]If。[A]Unless意为“如果不”,可引导条件状语从句,但与文意不符;[C]Lest意为“唯恐,以免”,也可引导条件状语从句,不过其后要用虚拟语气,故排除。
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