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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 offic

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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 behavior are far less effective than internal restraints such as guilt, shame and embarrassment.
    Fortunately there are still communities—smaller towns, usually—where schools maintain 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 restraints are loosening. Your typical robber has none. He considers your property his property; he takes what he wants, including your life if you annoy 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.
The best title for the text is ______.
选项 A、Responsibility—Be Vital Importance to Our Society
B、A Tidal Wave of Crime Sweeping the City
C、No Respect, No Trust, No Law and Even No Society
D、A Police Officer’s Daily Work
答案A
解析 文章从多个角度论述了责任(responsibility或者accountability)对于整个社会的重要性，这一点我们可以从各个自然段反复出现的accountability以及其同义词看出来。因此，选项A是正确答案。选项B根据第二段第一句设置，但是文章并没有说一大波犯罪将会席卷我们的城市，属于无中生有。选项C是第四段最后一句中的细节信息，无法代表全文主旨。选项D无中生有，虽然police officer这个说法在文章中出现过，但是全文并不是在讲警察的日常工作。
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