Porsche produced the first Volkswagen car
A. ten months after he received government money.
B. three years after he received government money.
C. four years after he received government money.
Something has gone terribly 【C1】______ with our once proud American way of life. It has happened in the area of values. A key 【C2】______ is disappearing, and I think I know what it is: accountability
Accountability isn't hard to 【C3】______ It means that every person is responsible for his or her actions and 【C4】______ for their consequences. Of the many 【C5】______ that hold civilization together-honesty, kindness, and so on-accountability may be the most important.
My job as a police officer is to impose accountability on people who 【C6】______ , or have never learned, to impose it on themselves. 【C7】______ as every policeman knows, external controls on people's behavior. are far less effective than internal 【C8】______ such as guilt, shame and embarrassment.
【C9】______ , there are still communities-smaller towns, usually-where schools maintain 【C10】______ and where parents hold up standards that proclaim: "In this family certain things are not 【C11】______ -they simply are not done! "
Yet more and more, especially in our larger cities and suburbs, these 【C12】______ restraints are loosening. The main cause of this breakdown is a radical shift in 【C13】______ Thirty years ago, if a crime was 【C14】______ , society was considered the victim. Now, in a shocking 【C15】______ , 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 【C16】______ to reach him with moral guidance, by the parents who didn't provide a 【C17】______ home.
I don't believe it. Many others in equally disadvantaged circumstances choose not to 【C18】______ in criminal activities. If we free the criminal, even partly, 【C19】______ accountability, we become a society of endless excuses 【C20】______ 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.
【C1】
A. faulty
B. defective
C. mistaken
D. wrong