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A wise man once said that the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil i

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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.
    Day after day my men and I struggle to hold back a tidal wave of crime. Something has gone terribly wrong 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 behaviour are far less effective than internal restraints such as guilt, shame and embarrassment.
    Fortunately there still communities — smaller towns, usually — where schools maintaining 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 cities and suburbs, these inner restrains are loosening. Your typical robber has none. He considers your property his property; he takes what he wants, including your life if you enrage him.
    The main cause of this breakdown 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. [br] 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 本题为事实细节题。本文第六、七段对比了大城市和小城市人们的自我约束性，作者指出，小城镇的人强调纪律，而大城市中人们自我约束力越来越松散。所以，A选项符合原文意思。B选项与原文意思正好相反。C和D选项属无中生有，文中并未提及。因此，A选项正确。
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