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Manners nowadays in metropolitan cities like London are practically non-existent. It is nothing for a big, strong schoolboy to e

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问题     Manners nowadays in metropolitan cities like London are practically non-existent. It is nothing for a big, strong schoolboy to elbow an elderly woman aside in the dash for the last remaining seat on the tube or bus, much less stand up and offer his seat to her, as he ought. In fact, it is saddening to note that if a man does offer his seat to an older woman, it is nearly always a Continental man or one from the older generation.
    This question of giving up seats in public transport is much argued about by young men, who say that, since women have claimed equality, they no longer deserve to be treated with courtesy, and that those who go out to work should take their turn in the rat race like anyone else. Women have never claimed to be physically as strong as men. Even if it is not agreed, however, that young men should stand up for younger women, the fact remains that courtesy should be shown to the old, the sick and the burdened.
    Conditions in travel are really very hard on everyone, we know, but hardship is surely no excuse. Sometimes one wonders what would have been the behavior of these stout young men in a packed refugee train or a train on its way to a prisoner-camp during the war. Would they have considered it only right and their proper due to keep the best places for themselves then?
    Older people, tired and irritable from a day’s work, are not angels, either — far from it. Many a brisk argument or an insulting quarrel breaks out as the weary queues push and shove each other to get on buses and tubes. One cannot commend this, of course, but one does feel there is just a little more excuse.
    If cities are to remain pleasant places to live in at all, however, it seems urgent, not only that communications in transport should be improved, but also that communication between human beings should be kept smooth and polite. All over cities, it seems that people are too tired and rushed to be polite. Shop assistants won’t bother to assist, taxi drivers shout at each other as they dash dangerously round corners, bus conductors pull the bell before their desperate passengers have had time to get on or off the bus, and so on and so on. It seems to us that it is up to the young and strong to do their small part to stop such deterioration.
Judging from the context, the word "deterioration" in the last paragraph most probably means______.
选项 A、worsening of bad manners
B、aggravating of the environment
C、declining of the young’s moral sense
D、lowering of citizens’ living standards
答案A
解析 根据信号词deterioration以及出处提示last paragraph可回文精确定位到尾段尾句It seems to us that it is up to the young and strong to do their small part to stop such deterioration(对我们来讲，似乎只有让青壮年发挥自己的微薄之力才能阻止这些……)。鉴于词汇推断题的思路是借助于问题词的上文或下文线索做分析推断，考生可根据such的指代逻辑在上文寻找线索，考虑到上一句是例子信息，故需要继续往上文寻找，随即可锁定尾段第二句All over cities，it seems that people are too tired and too rushed to be polite(在所有的城市，似乎人们都很疲惫，都很忙碌，以至于无法以礼相待)，此处为本题目“题眼”，强调指出“人们间的不礼貌”。
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