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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、turns out
B、turns up
C、turns around
D、turns down
答案C
解析 本题的考点为turn组成的固定词组的用法辨析。和spits in his eye"蔑视"形成一系列动作的词组应为turns around"转身"。turns out"生产；结果是"，turns up"出现；扩大"，turns down"拒绝；关小"都不符合文意。
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