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公共课英语一模拟题2020年(334) (总分-20,考试时间180分钟) 阅读理解 There is a new revolution going on in Chilean society recently. 【R1】__________The government is tackling the problem of teenage pregnancy by handing out morning-after pills to 14-year olds without their parents permission. A bill to allow terminally ill patients to choose a merciful death was recently introduced to the legislature, and there is growing momentum behind calls for a civil-union law that would extend the legal benefits of marriage to gay and unmarried heterosexual couples. The legal system is struggling under the weight of divorce suits—Chile only legalized divorce in 2004. In a society traditionally ruled by men, the President and half of her cabinet are women. 【R2】__________ This is the ideology of liberation from taboos, blocks, burdens and traumas that promises happiness for all. A happiness that never arrives says Gonzalo Rojas, a law professor, columnist and self-declared supporter of former dictator General Augusto Pinochet. He summarizes the new social ethic as I demand, the State grants, society accepts, and critics stay away, and he likens it to the me generation of the United States in the 1970s. He feels sorrow what he sees as the failure of the sustained economic growth promoted by Pinochets radical economic reforms to produce equivalent moral development 【R3】__________ He condemns liberals for wanting to put education and health under state control and for leaving personal morality to the individual. 【R4】__________ Eugenio Tironi, an influential sociologist, sees it, perhaps ironically, as the outcome of Pinochets own economic liberalization policies. As prosperity grew, the society first rid itself of the Generals authoritarian rule, and then began to tackle some of the conservative shackles on personal freedom. Chilean society itself had become more liberal, he says. What conservative society would dare elect as president a woman, a leftist, a victim of human rights violatio