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根据材料，回答问题。Valuing Childhood
The value of childhood is easily blurred (变得模糊不清) in today's world. Considersome recent developments. The child, murderers in the Jonesboro schoolyard shooting case were convicted and sentenced. Two boys,7 and 8, were charged in the murder of an 11-year-old girl in Chicago.
Children who commit horrible crimes appear to act of their own will. Yet, as legalproceedings in Jonesboro showed, the one boy who was able to address the court couldn't beginto explain his acts, though he tried to apologize. There may have been a motive -- youthfuljealousy (妒忌) and resentment.But a deeper question remains: Why did these boys andothers in similar trouble apparently lack any inner, moral restraint?
That question echoes for the accused in Chicago, young as they are. They wanted the girl's bicycle, a selfish impulse common enough among kids.
Redemption (拯救) is a practical necessity. How can value be restored to young livesdistorted by acts of violence? The boys in Jonesboro and in Chicago will be confined ininstitutions for a relatively short time. Despite horror at what was done, children are not --cannot be - dealt with as adults, not if a people wants to consider itself civilized. That's whypoliticians' cries for adult treatment of youthful criminals ultimately miss the point.
But the moral void (真空) that invites violence has many sources. Family instabilitycontributes, so does economic stress. That void, however, can be filled. The work starts withparents, who have to ask themselves whether they're doing enough to give their children a firmsense of right and wrong. Are they really monitoring their activities and their developingprocesses of thought?
Schools, too, have a role in building character. So do youth organizations.So do youthenforcement agencies, which can do more to inform the young about laws, their meaning, andtheir observance (遵守).
The goal, ultimately, is to allow all children a normal passage from childhood toadulthood (成年), so that tragic gaps in moral judgement are less likely to occur. The relativefew who fill such gaps with acts of violence hint at many others who don't go that far, but wholack the moral foundations childhood should provide -- and which progressive human societyrelies on.
The two boys in Chicago were__________ A．shot
B．murdered
C．accused
D．sentenced
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