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The annual campaign to make Singapore’s three million people more polite ended yesterday and was immediately followed by another
The annual campaign to make Singapore’s three million people more polite ended yesterday and was immediately followed by another
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2017-07-14
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The annual campaign to make Singapore’s three million people more polite ended yesterday and was immediately followed by another drive to get them to be punctual.
Tardiness is not yet a criminal offence in the island republic, and the National Punctuality Working Committee can only use gentle persuasion. " Being on time means being considerate, " said committee chairman Toh Weng Cheng. Previous drives made little headway in changing a deeply rooted habit that seems oddly out of place in this otherwise efficient city-state. Tardiness at dinner parties is usually attributed to Chinese tradition, a belief that older and more important guests were expected to make an entrance after the others.
Meanwhile, officials will assess the results of the 15th annual courtesy (礼貌) campaign, a HK $2.4 million drive to persuade Singaporeans to mind their manners. Earlier courtesy campaigns used posters, films, advertisements in newspapers and magazines to portray considerate behavior. The publicity this year stressed courtesy through examples of discourtesy. Few countries use elaborate public campaigns to change behavior and raise civic consciousness. It has been a way of life in Singapore for more than 30 years. Some, like the courtesy drive, deal with basic habits and culture. October was first declared "Speak Mandarin Month" in 1978, an effort to wipe out regional Chinese dialects in favor of the official tongue.
Others focus on problems of the day. The police launched a drive in 1989 to stop abuse of the emergency phone number 999, because one call in five was of the nuisance or non-emergency variety. Some campaigns have been so successful that they have been reversed. Family planners urged parents to "Stop at Two" in 1978. Birth rates dropped from 3.5 percent in 1960 to 1.2 percent in 1980, and families who can afford it are now encouraged to "Have Three or More". By the early 1980s, the growth of campaigns inspired one exhausted newspaper columnist to suggest a " take your campaigns seriously campaign".
Which of the following is NOT true?
选项
A、Singapore has always been a highly efficient country in every way.
B、The campaigns are not always very effective in Singapore.
C、Singapore does its best to make its people more polite.
D、Not all the campaigns are launched every year.
答案
A
解析
分析四个选项可知,C是正确的,题中已有证据;D并非每年都开展所有的活 动,这是对的;B并非所有的活动都一直有好的效果,从第二段可以判定该项也是正确的。A项中 的“in every way”与文章第二段倒数第二句话中的“this otherwise efficient city-state”相矛盾。故正 确答案是A。
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