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Jonathan Swift made a famous Modest Proposal in 1729 that the -babies of the Irish poor should be eaten to prevent them growing
Jonathan Swift made a famous Modest Proposal in 1729 that the -babies of the Irish poor should be eaten to prevent them growing
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2021-02-21
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Jonathan Swift made a famous Modest Proposal in 1729 that the -babies of the Irish poor should be eaten to prevent them growing up to a poverty-stricken life of crime. It was, of course, ironic. But nearly 300 years later I would like to make a modest proposal about babies that is almost as astonishing, yet not at all ironic. I’ve come reluctantly to think, that perhaps some babies, in the public interest and to prevent them growing up to a life of violence, should be forcibly taken from their mothers and adopted.
Freedom and compassion are two of the things I believe in most passionately and this proposal is entirely at odds with both, or so it seems. The image of little children being wrenched from the arms of their deeply upset mothers is one of the worst one can imagine. However, the parents of some of the criminally violent young people of today are not worthy of the name of mother or father. Some of those babies, given the extreme disadvantages of their upbringing, will grow up to torment, hurt and kill.
All too often when a shocking murder is reported, it emerges that the killers had a background designed to produce such semi-psychotic violence: We could demand to know where the criminal justice system was in all this or why there are not police on the streets. But we don’t often demand an explanation from the parents. Children from orderly homes do not tend to go about the streets looking for a fight. It is the children of the useless—there is no better word for it, I’m sorry to say—who go so tragically wrong.
I am not talking about parents or children who suffer from mental illness; they can’t be held responsible. I’m talking about parents who are pretty much in their right minds, when not high on drink and drugs, and who choose to neglect their children, and who, neglecting or abusing those they have already, go on to have more. I mean never-married parents, with no standards, who have a string of partners coming and going, who have babies by different lovers, who are careless if those itinerants (partners) abuse their own children, who are running welfare scams or living by crime. What hope is there for their children?
Now there’s a challenge to politicians: stop talking about the cycle of deprivation and break it by taking away the babies and giving them to loving adoptive parents. A modest proposal, and a difficult one, but the only realistic one.
According to the author, the reason for some shocking murders may often be_____..
选项
A、the imperfect criminal justice system
B、the inefficiency of policemen
C、the psychological problems of criminals
D、the irresponsible family education
答案
D
解析
事实细节题。考查因果细节,根据a shocking murder定位到第三段,本段提出家庭环境,尤其是父母对孩子的成长至关重要,最后一句指出犯下错误的正是那些不负责任的家庭的孩子,故D项正确。
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考研英语二
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