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  3. Americans today believe that acceptable social behavior follows effortlessly from personal virtue. The (1)_____ between morals a

Americans today believe that acceptable social behavior follows effortlessly from personal virtue. The (1)_____ between morals a

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问题     Americans today believe that acceptable social behavior follows effortlessly from personal virtue. The (1)_____ between morals and manners has become blurred. (2)_____ you need is a good heart, most people assume, and the (3)_____ will take care of itself. You don’t have to write thank-you notes.
    Many Americans believe that natural behavior is beautiful. The "natural" (4)_____ to human relations presumes that to know any person well enough is to love him, that the (5)_____ human problem is a communication problem. This (6)_____ that people might be separated by basically, generally irreconcilable differences—philosophical, political, or religious—and assumes that all such differences are (7)_____ misunderstandings.
    Indeed, it has never been easier to insult people inadvertently. A gentleman opens a door for a lady because his mother taught him that ladies (8)_____ such courtesies, but she (9)_____ and spits in his eye because he has insulted her womanhood. A young lady offers her seat in a (10)_____ bus to an elderly, frail gentleman, and he gives her a (11)_____ look because she has insulted his (12)_____ Mind you, those are just people (13)_____ to be nice; the only problem is that they are (14)_____ on different systems of (15)_____.
    Curiously, it has never been (16)_____ to insult people intentionally. If you say, "You are nasty and I hate you," the person is (17)_____ to reply, "Oh, you’re feeling (18)_____; I’ll wait until you feel better. "
    The idea the people can behave "naturally" without resorting to a(n) (19)_____ code tacitly agreed upon by their society is as silly as the idea that they can communicate by using a language without (20)_____ accepted semantic and grammatical rules.

选项 A、harder
B、easier
C、worse
D、better
答案B
解析 本题的考点为对上下文的理解和形容词的比较级辨析。根据文章大意，该句表达的意思是"故意冒犯别人也不是什么较容易的事"，所以easier"较容易的"符合文意。harder"较难的"，worse"较差的"，better"较好的"都与文章意思不符。
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