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A wise man once said that the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. So, as a police office

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问题      A wise man once said that the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. So, as a police officer, I have some urgent things to say to good people.
     Days after days my men and I struggle to hold back a tidal wave of crime. Something has gone terribly wrung with our once-proud American way of life. It has happened in the area of values. A key ingredient is disappearing, and I think I know what it is: accountability.
     Accountability isn’t hard to define. It means that every person is responsible for his or her actions and liable for their consequences.
     Of the many values that hold civilization together—honesty, kindness, and so on— accountability may be the most important of all. Without it, there can be no respect, no trust, no law—and, ultimately, no society.
     My job as a police officer is to impose accountability on people who refuse, or have never learned, to impose it on themselves. But as every policeman knows, external controls on people’s behavior are far less effective than internal restraints such as guilt, shame and embarrassment.
     Fortunately there are still communities—smaller towns, usually—where schools maintain discipline and where parents hold up standards that proclaim: "In this family certain things are not tolerated—they simply are not done!"
     Yet more and more, especially in our larger suburbs, these inner restraints are loosening. Your typical robber has none. He considers your property; he takes what he wants, including your life if you enrage him.
     The main cause of this break-down is a radical shift in attitudes. Thirty years ago, if a crime was committed, society was considered the victim. Now, in a shocking reversal, it’s the criminal who is considered victimized: by his underprivileged upbringing, by the school that didn’t teach him to read, by the church that failed to reach him with moral guidance, by the parents who didn’t provide a stable home.
     I don’t believe it. Many others in equally disadvantaged circumstances choose not to engage in criminal activities. If we free the criminal, even partly, from accountability, we become a society of endless excuses where no one accepts responsibility for anything.
     We in America desperately need more people who believe that the person who commits a crime is the one responsible for it.
What the wise man said suggests that
选项 A、it’s unnecessary for good people to do anything in face of evil.
B、it’s certain that evil will prevail if good men do nothing about it.
C、it’s only natural for virtue to defeat evil.
D、it’s desirable for good men to keep away from evil.
答案B
解析 本题考查推理判断。问题中suggest一词的意思是“使人想到，暗示”。文章第一句字面上虽说“A wise man once said that the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing．(聪明人曾经说过邪恶之所以猖獗，是因为好人什么都不做，所以我要对好人说些急迫的事情。)”但通过阅读全文进一步理解其深层含义，作者实事上则暗示：“如果好人对邪恶坐视不管，那它就会盛行猖獗 (prevail)”。所以选项B 正确。
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