【正确答案】 B

【答案解析】[听力原文] 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. Day after day my men and I struggle to hold back a tidal wave of crime. Something has gone terribly wrong 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 cities and suburbs, these inner restraints are loosening. A robber considers your property his property; he takes what he wants, including your life if you make him very angry. 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 teach 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 do the wise man's words suggest? 选项中重复出现了good people/men，evil，be responsible for和criminal，由此可推测，本段录音与好人和坏人以及谁应当为犯罪担责有关。 选项中重复出现了good people/men和evil，由此推测，本题可能与好人和邪恶有关，听音时应留意与此相关的信息。警官在讲话开头引用名言：一位智者曾经说过，邪恶之所以取得胜利，是因为善良之人无所作为。选项中只有B项符合文义，其中evil will prevail是对triumph of evil的同义转述，故答案为B。

【正确答案】 A

【答案解析】[听力原文] What does the police officer say about people in large cities, compared with people in smaller towns? 选项均以they have开头，且均含有比较级(less，better，more)，结合self-discipline和respect推测，they为某类人，本题可能涉及某类人与其他人的比较。警官在讲话中做了对比：在一些小城镇，学校维持纪律，家庭主持规范；而在大城市和郊区，内在约束在放松，强盗抢东西成了理所当然的事。由此可见，大城市的人们纪律性更差，约束力小，尤其根据inner restrains are loosening可知A项正确。

【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】[听力原文] What does the police officer believe? 选项中重复出现了should，be responsible for和criminal，结合其中的society，modem civilization和the criminal himself推测，本题可能考查谁应该为犯罪负责，听音时应留意是社会、现代文明还是罪犯本身。警官在演讲中提到，三十年前，罪行发生后通常认为社会是受害者；而现在发生了巨大的转变，认为罪犯自己是受害者，并给出各种犯罪的理由，比如成长环境不好，教堂没有给予道德指引等等。警官接着以“I don't believe it”道出他的观点：每一个犯罪的人应该为自己的行为负责任，而不应该找各种各样的借口。选项中只有C项符合文义。