Technology in and of【45】is not at fault; it's much too simple to say that gunpowder or agricultural machinery or fiber optics【46】been the enemy of an【47】group of people. A certain machine is put【48】work in a certain way--the purpose【49】which it was designed. The people who design the machines are not intent on unleashing chaos; they are usually trying to【50】a task more quickly, cleanly, or cheaply,【51】the imperative of innovation and efficiency that has ruled Western civilization【52】the Renaissance.
Mastery of technology is second only【53】money as the true measure of accomplishment in this country, and it is very likely that by【54】this under-representation in the technological realm, and by not questioning and examining the folkways that have【55】it, blacks are allowing【56】to be kept out of the mainstream once again. This time, however, they will be【57】from the greatest cash engine of the twenty-first century. Inner-city blacks in particular are in danger, and the beautiful suburbs【58】ring the decay of Hartford, shed the past and learn to exist without contemplating or encountering the tragedy of the inner city.
And blacks must change as well. Tile ways that【59】their ancestors through captivity and coming to freedom have begun to loose their utility. If blacks【60】to survive as full participants in this society, they have to understand what works now.
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In most other countries of the world, there is no capital punishment for minors. In the United States, though, each state makes its own decision. Of the 36 states that allow the death penalty, 30 permit the execution of minors.
In the state of South Carolina, a convicted murderer was given the death penalty for a crime he committed while he was a minor. In 1977, when he was 17 years old, James Terry Roach and two friends brutally murdered three people. Roach's lawyer fought the decision to execute him. The young murderer remained on Death Row (a separate part of prison for convicted criminals who are sentenced to death) for ten years while his lawyer appealed to the governor. The lawyer argued that it is wrong to execute a person for a crime he committed while he was a minor. In the United States, the governor of a state has the power to change a sentence from the death penalty to life in prison. Nonetheless, the governor of South Carolina refused to stop the execution. Roach was finally executed by electrocution in 1986. This is not the first time a criminal was executed in South Carolina for a crime he committed when he was a minor. In 1944, a 14-year-old boy died in that state's electric chair.
In Indiana, a 16-year-old girl was on Death Row for a crime she committed when she was 15. Paula Cooper and three friends stabbed an elderly woman to death in 1986. They robbed the old woman to get money to play video games. At the time of the murder, the minimum age limit for executions in that state was 10. Cooper's lawyer appealed to the governor of Indiana to stop the execution because the convicted killer was very young and because she was abused in childhood. The Indiana governor, who favors the death penalty, said that he had to let the courts do their job.
According to the passage, Cooper's lawyer ______.
A. asked the governor for help
B. stopped the execution
C. let the courts do their job
D. fought with the governor
By the phrase "diffused through the 'artistic genius of centuries," the author most likely
A. the individual artists of the Middle Ages did not have serious talent
B. great works of art from the Middle Ages have survived until now
C. an artist who faithfully followed the rules of religious art was not recognized during his lifetime
D. the rules of religious art, developed over time, left little freedom for the artist
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B. 错误