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The value of childhood is easily blurred (变得模糊) in today’s world. Consider some recent developments: The child murderers in the
The value of childhood is easily blurred (变得模糊) in today’s world. Consider some recent developments: The child murderers in the
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2012-07-11
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The value of childhood is easily blurred (变得模糊) in today’s world. Consider some recent developments: The child murderers in the Jonesboro, schoolyard shooting case were convicted and sentenced. Two boys, 7 and 8, were charged in the murder of an 11-year-old girl in Chicago.
Children who commit horrible crimes appear to act of their own will. Yet, as legal proceedings in Jonesboro showed, the one boy who was able to address the court couldn’t begin to explain his acts, though he tried to apologize. There may have been a motive — youthful jealousy and resentment. But a deeper question remains: why did these boys and others in similar trouble apparently lack any inner, moral restraint?
That question echoes for the accused in Chicago, young as they are. They wanted the girl’s bicycle, a selfish impulse common enough among kids.
Redemption (拯救) is a practical necessity. How can value be restored to young lives distorted by acts of violence? The boys in Jonesboro and in Chicago will be confined in institutions for a relatively short time. Despite horror at what was done, children are not — cannot be — dealt with as adults, not if a person wants to consider himself civilized. That’s why politicians cries for adult treatment of youthful criminals ultimately miss the point.
But the moral void (真空) that invites violence has many sources. Family instability contributes. So does economic stress. That void, however, can be filled. The work starts with parents, who have to ask themselves whether they’re doing enough to give their children a firm sense of right and wrong. Are they really monitoring their activities and their developing processes of thought?
Schools, too, have a role in building character. So do youth organizations. So do law enforcement agencies, which can do more to inform the young about laws, their meaning, and their observance.
The goal, ultimately, is to allow all children a normal passage from childhood to adulthood, so that tragic gaps in moral judgment are less likely to occur. The relative few who fill such gaps with acts of violence hint at many others who don’t go that far, but who lack the moral foundations childhood should provide — and which progressive human society relies on.
According to the author, we shouldn’t treat children as adults when they commit crimes because we consider ourselves______.
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答案
civilized
解析
由题干中的shouldn’t treat children as adults将本题定位到第四段第四句:尽管孩子们的所作所为令人震惊,他们没有——也不能——像成年人那样被对待:如果一个人还把自己看作是文明人的话(if a person wants to consider himself civilized)就不该这样做。本句的结构有些复杂,注意if从句前面的not的意思是“孩子们不会像成年人一样被对待”,在这里是省略用法。题干中的主句是we,我们不能那样对待孩子,当然是因为我们认为自己是“文明的”。
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