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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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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、angry
B、thankful
C、guilty
D、dirty
答案
D
解析
本题的考点为dirty在惯用语中的用法辨析。a dirty look是习语,指"瞪 (某人)一眼",表示很不以为然。根据上下文,老先生应该是因年轻女士的让座而瞪了她一眼。angry"愤怒的",thankful"感激的",guilty"有罪的"都不符合句子的结构和意思。
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考研英语一
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