GRE英语考试试题

　　GRE试题

　　23.According to the passage, Piaget and Keasey would not

　　have agreed on which of the following points?

　　(A) The kinds of excuses children give for harmful

　　acts they commit

　　(B) The age at which children begin to discriminate

　　between intentional and unintentional harm

　　(C) The intentions children have in perpetrating harm

　　(D) The circumstances under which children punish

　　harmful acts

　　(E) The justifications children recognize for mitigating

　　punishment for harmful acts

　　24.It can be inferred that the term "public duty" (line 33)

　　in the context of the passage, means which of the fol-

　　lowing?

　　(A) The necessity to apprehend perpetrators.

　　(B) The responsibility to punish transgressors

　　(C) An obligation to prevent harm to another

　　(D) The assignment of punishment for harmful action

　　(E) A justification for punishing transgressions

　　25.According to the passage, Keasey’s findings support

　　which of the following conclusions about six-year-old

　　children?

　　(A)They have the ability to make autonomous moral

　　judgments.

　　(B)They regard moral absolutism as a threat to their

　　moral autonomy.

　　(C)They do not understand the concept of public duty.

　　(D)They accept moral judgment made by their peers

　　more easily than do older children.

　　(E)They make arbitrary moral judgments.

　　26.It can be inferred form the passage that Piaget would

　　be likely to agree with which of the following state-

　　ments about the punishment that children under seven