What is freedom? It seems like such a simple question. Freedom is being able to do what you want to do. Allow me to explain it.
I’m tired of working for a living. I’d rather collect taxes. So that’s what I’m going to do: collect a kind of tax. You are ordered to estimate your income from the past 12 months, and write me a check for 1%. I have provided a mailing address for this purpose on my contact page …
What? You have a problem with my plan? Oh, I see. If you have to send me a check for the tax, then I have hurt your freedom to spend that money as you see fit. We have a conflict! And our basic problem is: we cannot enjoy freedom at the same time; we must settle for a limit. But what limit?
Libertarians (自由論者) believe freedom should be based on self-control. They describe freedom as being able to do what you want to do as long as it doesn’t influence the equal right of others to do what they want to do. That is, freedom is being able to do what you like as long as you do not harm another person’s life, liberty or property.
You can build a set of legal and ethical (道德的) rules on the principle of self-control, and libertarians do. Their request for self-control often becomes more important than common sense, or even freedom itself.
The definition rules out the freedom to steal, murder, and so on. Otherwise, you can do whatever you want. There is no problem until you realize that taxation is theft, that war is murder, and that national service is a form of slavery. Since only the government has a legal right to use force, libertarians focus on making the government smaller, or even going without it. The libertarians’ definition of freedom is thus freedom from the government. Isn’t it ridiculous?
小題1:According to the first three paragraphs, the author’s idea of collecting taxes is _________.
A．reasonableB．responsibleC．unacceptableD．understandable
小題2:The author takes tax-collecting as an example in the passage to prove that freedom is _________.
A．unrealB．unbelievableC．a(chǎn)chievableD．limited
小題3:In the opinion of libertarians, freedom is realized mainly by _________.
A．the lawB．self-controlC．ethical rulesD．common sense
小題4:Which of the following statements is supported by libertarians according to the passage?
A．National service should be canceled.
B．People can do whatever they want.
C．The government should have more power.
D．They should be governed by the government.

小題1:C
小題2:D
小題3:B
小題4:A
每個人都渴望自由，有些人希望得到無限制的自由，但是這種自由可取么？
小題1:根據(jù)文中的信息作出判斷推理。依據(jù)文章前三段內(nèi)容可知，隨意對別人征稅被認為侵犯了別人的自由，當然是不被接受的。
小題2:根據(jù)文中的信息作出判斷推理。本文用征稅為例，目的是為了說明自由是有限制的，故答案為D。
小題3:理解文中具體信息。根據(jù)第四段Libertarians believe freedom should be based on self-control可知，答案為B。
小題4:理解文中具體信息。根據(jù)最后一段 … and that national service is a form of slavery可知，根據(jù)自由論者所謂的自由，國家的公共服務就成了奴役行為，因此應該廢除。
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