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1、Accountability isnt 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,

2、 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 peoples behavior are far less effective than internal restraints such as g

3、uilt, shame and embarrassment.Fortunately there are still communities-smaller towns, usually-where schools maintain discipline and where parents hold up standards that proclaim: “In the this family certain things are not toleratedthey simply are not done!”Yet more and more, especially in our larger

4、cities and suburbs, these inner restraints 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 break-down is a radical shift in attitudes. Thirty years ago, if a crime was committed

5、, society was considered the victim. Now, in a shocking reversal, its the criminal who is considered victimized: by his underprivileged upbringing, by the school that didnt teach him to read, by the church that failed to reach him with moral guidance, by the parents who didnt provide a stable home.

6、I dont 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 pe

7、ople who believe that the person who commits a crime is the one responsible for it.31.What the wise man said suggests that_.A. its unnecessary for good people to do anything in face of evilB. its certain that evil will prevail if good men do nothing about itC. its only natural for virtue to defeat e

8、vilD. its desirable for good men to keep away from evil32.According to the author, if a person is found guilty of a crime_.A. society is to be held responsibleB. modern civilization is responsible for itC. the criminal himself should bear the blameD. the standards of living should be improved33.Comp

9、ared with those in small towns, people in large cities have_.A. less self-discipline B. better sense of disciplineC. more mutual respect D. less effective government34.The writer is sorry to have noticed that_.A. people in large cities tend to excuse criminalsB. people in small towns still stick to

10、old discipline and standardsC. todays society lacks sympathy for people in difficultyD. people in disadvantaged circumstances are engaged in criminal activities35.The key point of the passage is that _.A. stricter discipline should be maintained in schools and familiesB. more good examples should be

11、 set for people to followC. more restrictions should be imposed on peoples behaviorD. more people should accept the value of accountability1991 Text 2The period of adolescence, i.e. the period between childhood and adulthood, may be long or short, depending on social expectations and on societys def

12、inition as to what constitutes maturity and adulthood. In primitive societies adolescence is frequently a relatively short period of time, while in industrial societies with patterns of prolonged education coupled with laws against child labor, the period of adolescence is much longer and may includ

13、e most of the second decade of ones life. Furthermore, the length of the adolescent period and the definition of adulthood status may change in a given society as social and economic conditions change. Examples of this type of change are the disappearance of the frontier in the latter part of the ni

14、neteenth century in the United States, and more universally, the industrialization of an agricultural society.In modern society, ceremonies for adolescence have lost their formal recognition and symbolic significance and there no longer is agreement as to what constitutes initiation ceremonies. Social ones have been replaced by a sequence of steps that lead to increased recognition and social status. For example, grade school graduation, high school graduation and college graduation cons