注意：此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。

52. What the wise man said suggests that ________.
 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
53. According to the author, if a person is found guilty of a crime ________.
 A) society is to be held responsible
 B) modern civilization is responsible for it
 C) the criminal himself should bear the blame
 D) the standards of living should be improved
54. Compared with those in small towns, people in large cities have ________.
 A) less self-discipline
 B) better sense of discipline
 C) more mutual respect
 D) less effective government
55. The writer is sorry to have noticed that ________.
 A) people in large cities tend to excuse criminals
 B) people in small towns still stick to old discipline and standards
 C) today’s society lacks sympathy for people in difficulty
 D) people in disadvantaged circumstances are engaged in criminal activities
56. The key point of the passage is that ________.
 A) stricter discipline should be maintained in schools and families
 B) more good examples should be set for people to follow
 C) more restrictions should be imposed on people’s behavior
 D) more people should accept the value of accountability

Passage Two
Questions 57 to 61 are based on the following passage.

In general, our society is becoming one of giant enterprises directed by a bureaucratic management in which man becomes a small, well-oiled cog (齿轮的嵌齿) in the machinery. The oiling is done with higher wages, well-ventilated (通风良好的) factories and piped music, and by psychologists and “human-relations” experts; yet all this oiling does not alter the fact that man has become powerless, that he does not wholeheartedly participate in his work and that he is bored with it. In fact, the blue-and the white-collar workers have become economic puppets (木偶) who dance to the tune of automated machines and bureaucratic management.
The worker and employee are anxious, not only because they might find themselves out of a job; they are anxious also because they are unable to acquire any real satisfaction or interest in life. They live and die without ever having confronted the fundamental realities of human existence as emotionally and intellectually independent and productive human beings.
Those higher up on the social ladder are no less anxious. Their lives are no less empty than those of their subordinates (下属). They are even more insecure in some respects. They are in a highly competitive race. To be promoted or to fall behind is not a matter of salary but even more a matter of self-respect. When they apply for their first job, they are tested for intelligence as well as for the right mixture of submissiveness (服从) and independence. From that moment on they are tested again and again -- by the psychologists, for whom testing is a big business, and by their superiors, who judge their behavior, sociability, capacity to get along, etc. This constant need to prove that one is as good as or better than one’s fellow-competitor creates constant anxiety and stress, the very causes of unhappiness and illness.