SAT阅读练习题:Reading Comprehension Test 5_SAT阅读

SAT阅读练习题:Reading Comprehension Test 5

　　you, he would interfere with no one, and the result would be that Piccadilly Circus would be a maelstrom that you would never 25 cross at all. You have submitted to a curtailment of private liberty in order that you may enjoy a social order which makes your liberty a reality.

　　Liberty is not a personal affair only, but a social contract. It is an accommodation of interests. In matters which do 30 not touch anybody elses liberty, of course, I may be as free as I like. If I choose to go down the road in a dressing-gown who shall say me nay? You have liberty to laugh at me, but I have liberty to be indifferent to you. And if I have a fancy for dyeing my hair, or waxing my moustache , or 35 wearing an overcoat and sandals, or going to bed late or getting up early, I shall follow my fancy and ask no mans permission. I shall not inquire of you whether I may eat mustard with my mutton. And you will not ask me whether you may follow this religion or that, whether you may prefer Ella Wheeler Wilcox to 40 Wordsworth, or champagne to shandy.

　　In all these and a thousand other details you and I please ourselves and ask no ones leave. We have a whole kingdom in which we rule alone, can do what we choose, be wise or ridiculous, harsh or easy, conventional or odd. But directly we 45 step out of that kingdom, our personal liberty of action becomes　qualified by other peoples liberty. I might like to practice on the trombone from midnight till three in the morning. If I went on to the top of Everest to do it, I could please myself, but if I do it in my bedroom my family will object, and if I do it out in the streets 50 the neighbors will remind me that my liberty to blow the　trombone must not interfere with their liberty to sleep in quiet.