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Erroneous virtues are running out of control in our culture. I don’t know how many times my 13-year-old son has told me about classmates who received ＄10 for each "A" grade on their report cards—hinting that I should do the same for him should he ever receive an A. Whenever he approaches me on this subject, I give him the same reply: forget it! This is not to say that I would never praise my son for doing well in school. But my praise is not meant to reward or elicit future achievements, but rather to express my genuine delight in the satisfaction he feels at having done his best. Doling out ＄10 sends out the message that the feeling alone isn’t good enough.
As a society, we seem to be on the brink of losing our internal control—the ethical boundaries that guide our actions and feelings. Instead, these ethical standards have been eclipsed by external "stuff" as a measure of our worth. We pass this obscene message on to our child
A. sympathetic
B. supportive
C. in disapproval
D. strongly against

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Erroneous virtues are running out of control in our culture. I don’t know how many times my 13-year-old son has told me about classmates who received ＄10 for each "A" grade on their report cards—hinting that I should do the same for him should he ever receive an A. Whenever he approaches me on this subject, I give him the same reply: forget it! This is not to say that I would never praise my son for doing well in school. But my praise is not meant to reward or elicit future achievements, but rather to express my genuine delight in the satisfaction he feels at having done his best. Doling out ＄10 sends out the message that the feeling alone isn’t good enough.
As a society, we seem to be on the brink of losing our internal control—the ethical boundaries that guide our actions and feelings. Instead, these ethical standards have been eclipsed by external "stuff" as a measure of our worth. We pass this obscene message on to our child
A. She receives it.
B. She forgets it.
C. She declines him.
D. She praises him.

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