感悟人生-中英文(励志型完型填空出题参考).docVIP

TRUSTLast night I was driving from Harrisburg to Lewisburg，Pa．，a distance of about eighty miles．It was late．I was late and if anyone asked me how fast I was driving，Id have to plead1) the Fifth Amendment2) to avoid self－incrimination3)．Several times I got stuck behind a slow－moving truck on a narrow road with a solid white line on my left，and I was clinching my fists with impatience．At one point along an open highway，I came to a crossroads with a traffic light．I was alone on the road by now，but as I approached the light，it turned red and I braked to a halt．I looked left，right and behind me．Nothing．Not a car，no suggestion of headlights，but there I sat，waiting for the light to change，the only human being for at least a mile in any direction．I started wondering why I refused to run the light4)．I was not afraid of being arrested，because there was obviously no cop around，and there certainly would have been no danger in going through it．Much later that night，after Id met with a group in Lewisburg and had climbed into bed near midnight，the question of why Id stopped for that light came back to me．I think I stopped because its part of a contract5) we all have with each other．Its not only the law，but its an arrangement we have，and we trust each other to honor it：we dont go through red lights．Like most of us，Im more apt to6) be restrained from doing something bad by the social convention that disapproves of it than by any law against it．Its amazing that we ever trust each other to do the right thing，isnt it ？And we do，too．Trust is our first inclination7)．We have to make a deliberate8) decision to mistrust someone or to be suspicious or skeptical9)．Those attitudes dont come naturally to us．Its a damn good thing too，because the whole structure of our society depends on mutual trust，not distrust．This whole thing we have going for us would fall apart if we didnt trust each other most of the time．We do what we say well do；we show up when we say well show up；we deliver